Aussie Women’s Sevens Head Coach signs on until 2018
Caption: Tim Walsh in Spain – Photo: Neil Kennedy
Qantas Australian Women’s Sevens Head Coach Tim Walsh has agreed a contract that will tie the former Australian Sevens representative and Queensland Reds fly-half to the ARU until 2018.
Walsh, who was promoted from Sevens Coaching Co-ordinator to the role as Head Coach in September 2013, last weekend led the side to Australia’s first-ever World Series triumph in Clermont-Ferrand.
During his tenure, Walsh has won 81 out of 96 World Series games over three seasons at a winning percentage of 84%, coaching the team to tournament wins in Dubai (2013 and 2015), Sao Paulo (2014, 2016), London (2015) and Atlanta (2016) in the process.
The 37-year-old also qualified the Australian Men’s Sevens team for the Rio 2016 Olympic via the Oceania Regional Qualifier in November 2015.
Qantas Australian Women’s Sevens Head Coach Tim Walsh said: “As a program we’ve achieved so much over the past three years and really begun to shape a positive, successful and sustainable future for women’s sevens rugby.
“It is a tremendous privilege to be given this responsibility and I am looking forward to the ensuing years and the challenges that lay ahead.”
ARU General Manager, High Performance Ben Whitaker, said: “Tim [Walsh] has done a great job with the Women’s Sevens program over the past three seasons and we’re delighted he has agreed to extend his time in this critical leadership position.
“Tim is a talented young coach who has a tremendous work ethic and willingness to learn, an obvious understanding of the Sevens game and has proven a very constructive leader and builder of relationships – all major pre-requisites for an effective and successful national coach.”
Walsh’s deal encompass the Rio 2016 Olympics, the 2016-17 and 2017-18 HSBC World Rugby Women’s Sevens Series, the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast and the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens in San Francisco.
Tim Walsh Factfile
Date of Birth: 10 April 1979 (age 37)
Playing Career: North Harbour, Worcester Warriors, Leeds Carnegie, Birmingham and Solihull, Newbury, Petraca Padova, Queensland Reds
Representative Honours: Australia Schools, Australia Under 19s, Australian Under 21s, Australian Universities, Australia Sevens
Coaching Career: Australia Sevens Coaching Co-ordinator (2012-13), Australia Women’s Sevens Head Coach (2013-present), Australian Men’s Sevens Head Coach (interim Aug – Nov 2015)
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