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Brian Shearer
* Head Softball Coach
* Assistant Facility Director
* Coordinator of Human Performance
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the Coach!
Brian Shearer
enters his seventh season as head softball coach at Rose-Hulman and
has helped establish the Fightin' Engineers as one of the top
programs in the NCAA Division III Great Lakes Region.
Shearer has coached teams to
three league division or regular season titles, highlighted by the
Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference regular season championship
in 2008.
The 2008 squad set school
records for victories (25) and winning percentage (.676) to nearly
double its win total from an injury plagued 2007 campaign.
Shearer led the Engineers to an
improvement of 19 victories in 2004 and the SCAC Eastern Division
crown. In 2005, the team finished 11-1 in SCAC East play on their
way to back-to-back division titles. Rose-Hulman had a
record of 15-5 in SCAC Eastern Division play over its back-to-back
2004 and 2005 championship seasons, including the team's first regional ranking in school
history.
During Shearer's tenure, several players have earned SCAC
and National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) recognition for
their efforts on the diamond. Twenty-four players have earned
all-conference honors in the last six years, highlighted by five award
winners and Pitcher of the Year Jordan Goslee in 2008. The NFCA has awarded
seven all-region honors
to Rose-Hulman players, including the first two-time honoree in Ashley
Montgomery.
Shearer also serves as an assistant facility director and the
college's coordinator of human performance in the Rose-Hulman Sports
and Recreation Center. Prior to Rose-Hulman, Shearer served as the
wellness and aquatics director at Seward County Community College
(Kan.) for four years. In 1999, He added softball coach to his
resume.
As the softball coach at Seward County, Shearer was able to take
a newly created program from a last-place finish in his first year
to a third-place divisional finish in his second. Today, the program
is one of the top teams in the Jayhawk conference.
A Clinton native, Shearer completed his bachelor's degree
in Physical Education-Sports Studies at Indiana State University,
before earning a master's degree in Kinesiology from Indiana
University in Bloomington. He owns three national certifications and
completed an internship with the National Institute for Fitness and
Sport in 1997.
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