Veronica Walsh (née Peck) was appointed to be an assistant coach for the Queens College women's basketball team in the summer of 2019. Walsh comes to Flushing after a three-year stint as the head coach and foundational cog behind the women's basketball program at Five Towns College on Long Island.
Walsh was the instrumental force for the Sound in the infancy of the athletics program at the college. She handled all aspects of recruiting, player development and scheduling opponents to bring the program to relevance within a short window. While the Head Coach at Five Towns, she recruited a two-time All-American Honorable Mention point guard in Chloe Walton as well as the United States Collegiate Athletic Association's (USCAA) leader in rebounds per game---DaNisha Allen, who averaged 17.5 rebbounds per contest in the 2018-19 season. Walsh left Five Towns after bringing the Sound to its first-ever above-.500 record and the program was accepted into the Hudson Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (HVIAC) for the 2019-20 season.
Walsh's playing career at Nazareth College in Rochester was also rife with success. She was a four-year starting point guard with the Golden Eagles as well as a three-time Empire 8 Conference Sportswoman of the Year along with being a two-time E8 All-Star while going 33-19 in her final two seasons at Nazareth.
Walsh currently serves as the coach of the Rising Stars AAU Girls Basketball program. She graduated from Nazareth in 2016 with a degree in Community Youth Development and earned her M.S. in Sport Management and Athletic Administration from Southern New Hampshire University in 2019.
