Shawn Nadelen
Head Coach · Towson
Coach Legacy updates once a year, after the NCAA championship. Last updated: June 2026.
Coach Legacy Score
- Players drafted × 1545
- Conference tournament titles × 735
- Career wins × 13734.3
- Conference regular-season titles × 728
- Final Fours × 125
- NCAA tournament appearances × 721
- NCAA tournament wins × 416
- Head-coaching seasons × 1515
- Win % points above .500 × 8.88.8
How it's scored: the board explains the weights (a national title is 100, a Final Four 25, a Tewaaraton winner 25).
Key numbers
- Career W-L
- 137-96
- D1 head coach · .588
- NCAA appearances
- 7
- NCAA wins
- 4 or more
- Final Fours
- 1
- Championships
- 0
- Conference titles
- 7 / 7
- regular season / tournament
- Tewaaraton
- 0 / 0
- winners / finalists
- All-Americans
- —
- USILA 1st / 2nd / 3rd
- Players Drafted
- 15 or more
Every number counts his Division I head-coaching jobs only. — is unknown (not found in the public pages read), never zero. A + means at least that many; * marks a record missing a D1 job or a season.
Career
- 137-96 (thru 2026)
Head coach · 2012–present
Division I head-coaching jobs, the ones Coach Legacy counts. Assistant and non-D1 jobs aren't listed.
Postseason by year
- 2026Conference regular-season title
- 2025NCAA tournament · Conference tournament title · Conference regular-season title
- 2024NCAA tournament · Conference tournament title · Conference regular-season title
- 2022Conference regular-season title
- 2019NCAA tournament · Conference tournament title · Conference regular-season title
- 2017Final Four · Conference tournament title · Conference regular-season title
- 2016NCAA tournament · Conference tournament title · Conference regular-season title
- 2015NCAA tournament · Conference tournament title
- 2013NCAA tournament · Conference tournament title
The seasons the pages name. A bio's narrative may not name every season, so this list can be short of his totals above.
Tewaaraton Award
None credited to him as head coach.
Credited to the head coach of the player's school that season. Winners 2001–2026; finalists 2024–2026 only (older finalist lists aren't on the foundation's site).
All-Americans
— USILA's full lists couldn't be read yet, so no All-American is counted for any coach. What his school says is below.
Honors
- 2017 · USILA Division I Coach of the Year
- CAA Coach of the Year (2016, 2022, 2024, 2025, 2026)
In the school's words
- “All-Americans: 10 (2 First Team, 4 Second Team, 4 Third Team), 15 Honorable Mention” source
Quoted, not counted: bios mix All-America selectors, assistant years and pro leagues.
Sources
- https://towsontigers.com/sports/mens-lacrosse/coaches · name and title
- https://towsontigers.com/sports/mens-lacrosse/roster/coaches/shawn-nadelen/8410 · career stops, career record, record at his school, conference titles, read for conference tournament appearances (not found), read for conference wins (not found), honors, the school's own words
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NCAA_Division_I_lacrosse_programs · division
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towson_Tigers_men%27s_lacrosse · record
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA_Division_I_men%27s_lacrosse_tournament_appearances_by_school · NCAA appearances, NCAA wins, Final Fours
- https://usila.org/sports/2015/10/27/GEN_1027151106.aspx · title games, championships
Pages read on 2026-10-04, 2026-10-05, 2026-10-07 and 2026-10-08.