Colin McSharar ’11 has returned to Mount St. Joseph University to take over the men’s lacrosse program.
In June of 2021, it was announced that Colin McSharar would become the new Head Coach of Uganda's Women's Senior Team. The team was slated to compete in the 2022 World Championships in Towson, MD until their visa applications were denied. Uganda would have been the first women's senior national team to compete at the World Championship. But, a player on that team has recently enrolled at a NCAA DIII school for the 2024 season. She is the first ever African-born player to compete in any level of the NCAA.
McSharar is no stranger to the Heartland Collegiate Lacrosse Conference since graduating from MSJ. Prior to his Uganda appointment, McSharar was the inaugural head women's lacrosse coach at Anderson University in Anderson, IN. There, he posted impressive wins with a shorthanded team and was competitive throughout their inaugural season. His team posted the second highest GPA among both the sports in the university, as well as against the other men's and women's lacrosse teams in the HCLC. The maximum number of eligible players received All-Conference HCLC in that inaugural year. The team set a NCAA record for winning a game while playing two players short.
Before moving on to Anderson, McSharar was the head coach of the women's lacrosse team at Franklin College (2017). That 2017 team finished 5th in a 14-team conjoined conference. Before that season he was the Defensive Coordinator at Franklin College (2015-2016), the men's club team at Butler University (2012-2015), and was an assistant boy’s lacrosse coach at Bishop Chatard High School in Indianapolis (2012).
Outside of collegiate coaching, In January of 2023, McSharar started a group called “Coaches Without Borders,” comprised of the coaching/support staff from the Uganda Women’s National Team. Coaches Without Borders runs all-inclusive camps in underserved regions of the world. They train athletes, coaches, referees, and administrators on how to grow and sustain the sport while integrating their own culture into the development model. In December 2023, the group went to Cape Town, South Africa.
McSharar also volunteers with FCA Lacrosse, and has done camps throughout the country and even Uganda. As a goalie coach, he assists at Bill Pilat's: The Goalie School camps all around the US in the summers.
McSharar was an all-conference player at Mount St. Joseph (NCAA DIII) and graduated with a degree in Business Management in 2011.
McSharar is a USA Lacrosse Level 3 Certified Coach, 3D Coaching Certified, and is CPR/AED/First-Aid Certified.
