Cindy Walsh
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | September 13, 1979[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Montreal, Quebec, Canada[1] | ||
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)[1] | ||
| Position | Defender | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Saint-Bruno | |||
| FC Brossard | |||
| CS Longueuil | |||
| 2000 | FC Sélect Rive-Sud | ||
| College career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2000–2003 | Hartford Hawks | 80 | (12) |
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2001 | Laval Dynamites | ||
| 2002 | Toronto Inferno | ||
| 2003–2006 | Western Mass Lady Pioneers | ||
| 2007–2010 | Laval Comets | ||
| 2012–2014 | Laval Comets | ||
| 2019 | FC Sélect Rive-Sud | 13 | (0) |
| 2022 | CS St-Hubert | 3 | (0) |
| International career | |||
| 1999 | Canada U20 | 6 | (0) |
| 1998–2010 | Canada | 24 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2013–2015 | Laval Comets | ||
| 2016–2019 | AS Varennes AAA | ||
| 2020–2022 | CS St-Hubert (women) | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of July 10, 2022 | |||
Cindy Walsh (born September 13, 1979) is a Canadian retired soccer player who played as a defender. She has been a member of the Canada women's national team.
She attended the University of Hartford,[2] playing for the NCAA Division I Hartford Hawks on a full athletic scholarship. She started 80 games, missing only 3 because of emergency surgery to remove a ruptured appendix in 2000. She was voted Rookie of the Year[3] and named to the conference 1st team in 2000, 2001 and 2003 and named 2nd team in 2002.[4] She had a career high of 11 assists and 7 goals in 2002, and played a variety of positions from defender, midfielder and striker.[5]
Club career
Between 2001 and 2014 she competed in the now defunct semi-professional W-League, which was among the top leagues in North America. In 13 years she played with the Laval Dynamites, Toronto Inferno, Western Mass Lady Pioneers, and Laval Comets.[6] She was named to the W-League All-Conference team in 2008. She was also named league all-star team and named as W-League Defender of the Year in 2012.[7] In 2019, she played with FC Sélect Rive-Sud in the Première Ligue de soccer du Québec.[8]
International career
She joined the Canadian senior national team when she was 18 years old.[9] In 1998, she played in the CONCACAF Women's Championship, which they won and secured a qualifying spot for the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup.[10] She was captain of the U20 Women’s national team in 1999 at the Pan American games, participating in all games, and helping the team to a 4th place finish. In 2010, Walsh was called back to the senior national team for a training camp in Cyprus and helped contribute to winning the 2010 Cyprus Cup after a 10 year absence with the team.[11]