Bio

The new Mississippi Gulf Coast women’s volleyball team will begin play in 2025, and Shayna Walsh has been entrusted with starting the new program. The school hired the proven winner in summer 2024 to build the team.

Walsh has been the volleyball coach at Oak Grove High School the past three years, leading the Warriors to a 61-26 record. She was named South coach in the Mississippi Association of Coaches All-Star Game in 2023. Walsh started her high school coaching career in 2020 at Seminary High School.

She coached a season at Bear Branch Junior High in Magnolia, Texas, after having been a head coach for the Renegades Volleyball Club in Tomball, Texas, for three years. Her teams there made three appearances at the national tournament.

Walsh was a two-time All-State volleyball player at Magnolia High School in Texas. She was on a national runner-up team with Asics Willowbrook Volleyball Club and made six nationals appearances with the club. She was a two-time All-Conference performer at John Brown University and led the NAIA in service aces in 2014. At John Brown, she completed an associate’s degree in engineering in mechanical engineering, then graduated with a bachelor’s from Sam Houston State University.

While completing her master’s in coaching and physical education at the University of Arkansas-Monticello, she was a two-time First-Team All-Conference player. She earned a master’s in education from William Carey University.

Walsh is married to Orrin Walsh, who works for the Mississippi Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.