Daniel Walsh has been elected to the Northeastern University Hall of Fame for excellence in the sport of rowing.

Walsh elected to Hall of Fame
April 29, 2009
Boston, Mass.

Daniel Walsh, a native of Norwalk, Conn., has been elected to the Northeastern University Hall of Fame for excellence in the sport of rowing. Walsh, Class of 2003, will be inducted along with six others in formal ceremonies at Northeastern’s Curry Student Center in Boston, Mass., on May 21.

Walsh not only helped power the Huskies to the finals of three consecutive Eastern Sprints, but has won World Championship and Olympic bronze medals for the United States

A member of the Housatonic River and the Norwalk Rowing Clubs, Walsh was a four-year captain. His talents and his 6-foot-7, 220-pound measurements did not go unnoticed, and in the summer of 1997, he became a member of the United States Junior National Rowing Team.

In his freshman campaign, NU was 2-3 in regular season regattas and finished ninth at the Eastern Sprints. At season’s end, he received the Parker Award as the Outstanding Freshman Oarsman.

Sophomore season Walsh assumed the stroke position in the varsity boat and the Huskies went 2-3 in the regular regatta season. In the Eastern Sprints, the Huskies were a finalist, finishing sixth. Walsh was honored by receiving the team’s Most Valuable Oarsman Award.

As a junior, Walsh moved back to the 6 seat to bolster up the muscle in the engine room. Northeastern again had a 2-3 regular season regatta record and made the finals of the Sprints, finishing sixth for the second straight year.

In 2001, his senior season, Walsh returned to the stroke seat. Although the regular season record was 2-3, the year was a great success. The Huskies returned to the medals platform of the Eastern Sprints after a five-year drought by earning bronze with a third-place finish behind Princeton and Harvard. In the IRA Regatta, Northeastern made the finals and finished sixth. Walsh closed out his collegiate career by being named the Most Valuable Oarsman. For the second time, joining Tim Wooge as the only two-twime honorees, Walsh is the only rower in 43 years of NU crew to be named Most Valuable Oarsman and win the Parker Award as the Most Valuable Oarsman of the freshman crew.

Walsh joined the United States National Rowing team in the summer of 2001. In 2006, he rowed 6 seat as the U.S. won bronze at the World Championship and in 2008 he was in the 5 seat as the U.S. won bronze at the Olympics in Beijing, China.

Walsh resides wherever the U.S. team is training.

Joining Walsh in NU’s Hall of Fame Class of 2009 will be Laura Kelso-Shiman (swimming), Dave Klemic (football and track), Dan McGillis (men’s hockey), L.J. McKanas (football), Donna-Lynn Rosa (women’s hockey), and Jennifer White-Richardson (field hockey).

Tickets to the induction ceremony can be purchased by calling George Makris at (617) 373-4821.