Aaron Walsh

Aaron Walsh, Chartiers-Houston–Aaron is a three-year letterwinner in football, basketball, and baseball for the Bucs as well as a two-year letterwinner in track and field. The starting quarterback and cornerback, he helped the football team win its first WPIAL playoff game in 25 years this past season after a winless campaign just two years previous. He received First-Team All Black Hills Conference, Second-Team Pennsylvania News All-State and Observer-Reporter Terrific 22 honors along with several Player of the Week accolades. Walsh was the lone returning senior and starter on the WPIAL playoff basketball team and in the spring was the baseball team’s centerfielder while also running track (100- and 200-meter dashes and 400-relay team). Some of his extensive community service work includes: Relay for Life, Dark in the Par with Leo Club, C-H Youth Baseball, Football Camps, Youth Basketball Tournament, Horses with Hope/NHS, Washington County Peer, Rehab Colab/Dreamers Club, Bucs for Bucs Sports Camp, Houston Pumpkin Festival, and Community Park Cleanup with varsity football team. The son of Kelly and Patrick Walsh, Aaron has a 4.267 cumulative GPA and will continue his academic and football careers at Washington and Jefferson College. In his 300-word essay responding to “How will the lessons I learned from participation in high school athletics help to impact my future ?” Aaron wrote “Life does not reward people who quit. I know in the future this mindset will help me to overcome any obstacles I’ll face. My experiences in high school athletics have helped shape me into a leader and taught me how to deal with and handle adversity. The lessons I have learned from athletics will help me stay resilient, and composed to accomplish my future goals.”