Hall of Honor
Another multi-sport standout during one of Caltech's most successful athletic periods, Walsh was a preeminent talent in baseball. A two-time Alumni Baseball Trophy winner, he became the fourth Beaver to earn First Team All-SCIAC honors three times in his career, leading the conference with a .493 batting average as a junior.
Walsh spurned an invitation to try out for the New York Yankees in favor of pursuing his PhD in physics at the University of Illinois, although he ultimately completed a mathematics degree instead. He taught at Stanford University, the University of Strasbourg in France and EPFL Lausanne in Switzerland as a visiting professor before arriving at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Retired since 2004, he still maintains an office at UBC and regularly plays competitive senior tennis.
