Tom Welsh brings 19 years of head coaching experience and over 20 years overall to JJC. Tom is currently entering his second season as head women's coach at Joliet Junior College. In his first season, the team had a 18-15 record overall, defeating the likes of College of DuPage, Harper College, and for the first time in school history, Waubonsee Community College. He has been a head coach at every level, Tom's coaching career started while he was still in high school, helping coach his younger sister’s middle school team in the early 2000s. Tom has experience coaching at all levels, from middle school all the way up to college. Prior to JJC, Tom was the Girls Club Director at 630 Volleyball in Lisle for two years where he grew the program each year and placed numerous athletes in college. Prior to JJC and 630 Volleyball, Tom was the head women's coach at Morton College in Cicero, where he spent two years racking up the most wins by a first-year head coach in program history and more conference wins in his first season than the previous three seasons combined. Prior to Morton, Tom spent four years running his own high school programs down in the Champaign area where he led two different high schools to successful records. Tom's first stint as a Varsity Head Coach was at a 1A school in Arcola, IL, where he led the program to their first winning record in over 10 years in his first season, and the first back-to-back winning seasons in over a decade. Tom's three years at Arcola rank among the schools top winning percentage for combined wins in school history.

Outside of his on the court accolades, Tom has coached 3 valedictorians, never had an academically ineligible player in any program, and his first year at Morton College, he was the only program in the school to be awarded as an Academic All-American team, and one of only three schools in the region that year. In Tom's second year at Morton College, he coached the school's first ever athlete to be named valedictorian. Tom knows that the athletes deserve all the credit for their achievements in the classroom, but he likes to think he has played a role in their development as young adults.

Tom's vision is to not only grow the athletes he coaches on the court but help provide life lessons along the way to help them achieve all their life's ambitions.

Tom was born and raised in Naperville and currently resides there with his wife, their two dogs and their newborn daughter, Tracelynn.