Amy Walsh

Amy Heather Walsh... soccer family (brother Ian, sisters Cindy, Sarah, Bonnie)... parents Christopher and Judith Walsh... grew up playing soccer and basketball... she was six years old when she started playing soccer for CS St-Bruno... favourites included Wayne Gretzky... one of four sisters that played for FC Sélect Rive-Sud (while their mother served as team manager)...

honoured by the Canada Soccer Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2017... honoured by the Québec Soccer Hall of Fame (Temple de la renommée du soccer québecoise) and the Champlain Cavaliers Sports Hall of Fame... she was part of the Canadian team that won the 1998 Concacaf Championship, recognised as a Canada Soccer Team of Distinction...

Concacaf champion with Canada (1998)... represented Canada at two FIFA Women’s World Cups (USA 1999 and China 2007)... represented Canada at one Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)... in all, won four Concacaf medals with Canada (1998 gold, 2002 silver, 2006 silver, 2008 silver)... won a bronze medal with Canada at the Pan American Games Rio 2007... career 102 international “A” appearances across 12 years from 1998 to 2009 with Canada Soccer's Women's National Team…

club career in Canada and USA...

after her playing career, she was formally honoured by Canada Soccer for reaching 100 international “A” appearances ahead of the Canada home match on 30 September 2010 at BMO Field in Toronto (Canada Soccer President Dr. Dominic Maestracci presented commemorative plates to both Diana Matheson and Amy Walsh)... she was formally inducted to the Canada Soccer Hall of Fame ahead of the Canada home match on 11 June 2017 at BMO Field in Toronto...

wrote Jim Morris ahead of the FIFA Women’s World Cup USA 1999, Walsh “is the engine that will help drive the offence”... said coach Neil Turnbull in 1999, “she’s our top ball winner; she consistently comes out on top winning balls in the air, winning tackles, getting the knockdowns; she covers a lot of ground”... said coach Even Pellerud in 2000, “captain and leader by example; very dedicated, strong work ethic, and very important to the team“... said Walsh in 2011, “it feels good to reach 100 appearances. I feel it’s been a long time coming with a couple of injuries. It’s very special to share the moment with a core group of girls that I have played with for a long time”... said Walsh in 2017, “I got to live through all kinds of roles and all sorts of mental tests that I think only made me a better player and a better teammate”... wrote Neil Davidson in 2017, “an energetic ball-winner, Walsh was a key cog in Canada’s women’s team.”... wrote Melissa Tancredi in 2017, Walsh “led by example on and off the field, brought the Canadian grit and passion every single day, but never stopped making us laugh at the same time”...

said Suzanne Muir in 2021 of then rookie Amy Walsh in the late 1990s, “when Amy came on, you could begin to see the next generation of players coming and it was exciting. She worked so hard and she was such a class player and person. She did very well and you knew she would”...