Florida State University Athletics
Men's Basketball
- Title:
- Deputy Director Sports Information - Men's Basketball
- Email:
- cwalsh@fsu.edu
- Phone:
- 850-644-1077
Chuck Walsh joined the Florida State staff in August of 2000 and enters his 17th season as a deputy director in the public relations office in 2025-26. He is currently responsible for the publicity and promotion of men's basketball and women's golf.
Walsh is in his 33rd season working with an ACC basketball team. His time at Florida State encompassed the entirety of Leonard Hamilton's career after spending seven seasons working with Gary Williams and the Maryland men’s basketball program. During that time he has worked with 19 NBA Draft selections including Draft Lottery picks Joe Smith (No. 1 overall selection in 1995), Steve Francis (No. 2 overall selection in 1999), Patrick Williams (4th overall selection in 2020), Scottie Barnes (4th overall selection in 2021) Jonathan Isaac (6th overall selection in 2017), Devin Vassell (11th overall selection in 2020), Al Thornton (14th overall selection in 2007) as well as Juan Dixon (17th overall selection in 2002) and Toney Douglas (29th overall selection in 2009). While at Florida State, he has worked with Thornton (All-ACC First team and ACC Player of the Year runner-up), Douglas (The 2009 ACC Defensive Player of the Year and Player of the Year Runner-Up), Solomon Alabi (Two Time All-ACC Defensive Selection), Chris Singleton (the 2011 ACC Defensive Player of the Year), Michael Snaer (two-time All-CC selection), Mfiondu Kabengele (ACC sixth Man of the Year in 2019 and a 2019 NBA First Round Draft Pick) and Williams (ACC Sixth Man of the Year in 2020). Walsh has worked with 54 All-ACC selections including seven All-ACC First-Team selections in the sport of basketball.
Walsh has publicized six national championship teams, nine ACC championship teams (including the 2012 and 2020 ACC Men’s Basketball Champions) and two ACC Athletes of the Year. He has worked with five men’s basketball All-Americans (Smith, Francis, Thornton, Douglas and Keith Booth) as well as numerous All-Americans in men’s and women’s lacrosse, field hockey and men’s and women’s golf. Smith was named the consensus collegiate men’s basketball National Player of the Year in 1995, the National Freshman of the Year in 1994 and the ACC Player of the Year in 1995. He also worked with Caroline Westrup, Florida State's first women's golf four-time All-American and the 2006 World Amateur champion, and Brooks Koepka, the 2017 and 2018 US Open Champion, and only the seventh player in ACC history to earn ACC Player and ACC Rookie of the Year honors during his career as a Seminole golfer. He has also worked with Frida Kinhult, the 2019 National Freshman and ACC Golfer and Freshman of the Year, Beatrice Wallin, the 2021 ACC Golfer of the Year, Lottie Woad, the No. 1-ranked women's amateur in the world for 50 weeks, and Mirabel Ting, the 2025 ANNIKA Award winner and national Golfer of the Year.
In 2008, he was instrumental in working on the promotional campaign for Lou Groza Award winner Graham Gano and in 2013 he was instrumental in working on the successful campaign for Lou Groza Award winner Roberto Aguayo.
Walsh has served as the media coordinator for numerous national events including the NCAA Tallahassee Baseball Super Regional (2010, 2013, 2017, and 2024), NCAA Tallahassee Baseball Regional (2009, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2024 and 2025), NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Championship (1997 and 1999), NCAA Women’s Lacrosse Championship (1993 and 1994), NCAA Wrestling Championship (1990) and the NCAA East Regional Women’s Golf Championships (2014 and 2018). He has also traveled with the Seminole baseball team to four College World Series appearances (2008, 2010, 2017 and 2019).
Walsh’s publications have been nationally recognized during his career. His men’s basketball media guide was recognized as the best in the nation in 2004. Each of his basketball media guides during his tenure at Florida State have been ranked in the top five nationally.
Walsh is on the voting board of the Adolph Rupp Award which annually selects the All-American Team as well as the Player and Coach of the Year recipients in Division I College Basketball. He also serves on the Bob Cousy Award Committee which chooses the nation’s top collegiate point guard.
During the summer of 2020, as the USBWA and CoSIDA (now College Sports Communicators) held discussions on media protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic ahead of the 2020-21 basketball season, Walsh played a key role in negotiating and reinforcing policies supported by the USBWA to retain as much access and availability given the health and safety concerns.
In 2023, Walsh was presented with the Katha Quinn Award by the United States Basketball Writers Association. The award is presented by the USBWA in memory of Katha Quinn, sports information director at St. John’s University who supervised basketball media services during the 1987 Pan American Games despite a diagnosis of liver cancer. Quinn died at the age of 34, more than two years after the diagnosis. The award is given to recognize those in college basketball who have rendered a special service to the USBWA and sportswriters who cover college basketball.
Walsh earned his bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Maryland in 1988.
His wife, Nancy Benavides Walsh, is the Dean of Students at the Florida State University College of Law.
