Ryan is a Strength and Conditioning Specialist
with DURO Health.

Ryan Walsh grew up in Fairbanks, Alaska with his family, going to high school at Monroe Cathlolic. He and his brothers (also he is an identical triplet) played a wide variety of sports like soccer and track. He started college at University of Alaska Anchorage. After a couple years of competing in Track and Field as a collegiate sprinter at UAA, he transferred to Humboldt State in northern California to do the same. Upon finishing his sprinting career at Humboldt, he then made the transition to coaching there in both track and field as well as strength and conditioning; the latter helping with all the sports programs at HSU such as Football, Track, Men and Women’s Basketball, Volleyball, Softball, and Crew, as well as the general student population.

In 2014, he took a job offer at University of Alaska Anchorage to start and build their strength and conditioning program in their brand new sports facility the Alaska Airlines Center. They had 9 different sports programs in Division 1 and Division 2 NCAA Sports; Hockey, Women’s Gymnastics, Volleyball, Men and Women’s Basketball, Alpine and Nordic Skiing, Cross Country and Track & Field. 9 years later, with the efforts of the sport coaches and sports med staff, was proud to have helped athletes achieve 9 national championships, 160 All Americans (top 8 in the nation), 22 conference champion teams, 135 conference champions and 4 olympians.

Ryan Walsh is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association. He has presented at NSCA conferences on a variety of topics such as long term athletic development to technical models of sprint mechanics. He also competes in a variety of strength sports, including olympic lifting and powerlifting, the latter the larger passion. He is a strength and conditioning specialist now working with DURO in Anchorage, Alaska with the Anchorage Fire Department.