WORCESTER, Mass. – Head coach Dan Curran has announced that Jimmy Walsh is joining the Holy Cross football team as the program's safeties coach. 

Walsh spent the 2023 season at Colby College as the special teams coordinator and defensive backs coach. With Walsh leading the special teams unit, Colby ranked first in the NESCAC with six blocked kicks in nine games; Brendan Sawyer ranked atop the NESCAC in kickoff return average (20.2 yards per return). The Mules held opponents to a 16.9 average per kickoff return and  recovered three fumbles on special teams. Defensively, Colby ranked fourth in the NESCAC in pass defense (221.2 yards per game), and the team's defensive backs totaled 21 pass breakups on the year. 

In 2022, Walsh served as the special teams coordinator and cornerbacks coach at the University of Maine. The Black Bears were one of only 18 teams in FCs that did not allow a blocked kick or punt, and Maine ranked third in the CAA with a net kickoff average of 41.2. Maine's cornerbacks totaled three interceptions and 14 PBUs on the season. 

Before Maine, Walsh spent one season as the special teams graduate assistant at Rice University and one season as the running backs coach and co-special teams coordinator at Merrimack College. Walsh also spent two seasons as an outside linebackers coach and special teams coordinator at Springfield College. During the 2019 season, Springfield College tied for No. 1 in all of Division III football with four return touchdowns. 

Walsh began his coaching career at Phillips Academy Andover and also spent one season at Bates College. 

In 2016, he graduated with his bachelor's degree in political economy from Bates College. In addition, Walsh earned a master's degree in athletic administration from Springfield College in 2020.

WALSH'S COACHING CAREER
2024- | Holy Cross (Safeties)
2023 | Colby (Special Teams Coordinator / Defensive Backs)
2022 | Maine (Special Teams Coordinator / Cornerbacks)
2021 | Rice (Graduate Assistant / Special Teams)
2020 | Merrimack (Co-Special Teams Coordinator / Running Backs)
2019 | Springfield (Special Teams Coordinator / Linebackers)
2018 | Springfield (Linebackers)

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