Women's Lacrosse
- Title:
- Head Coach
- Email:
- jlsi@lehigh.edu
- Alma Mater:
- first season
Jim Shreve will serve in his inaugural year as head women’s lacrosse coach. Shreve is very familiar with the Lehigh lacrosse programs, having served as an assistant on the men’s team for the past seven seasons as well as assisting in the women’s program the past three seasons. Shreve served as offensive coordinator from 1998-2001 and defensive coordinator from 2002-2003 as well as coaching the goalie, extra man, and man down units. Both his 2000 extra-man unit and 2001 man down unit finished fourth in the country.
Shreve attended Syracuse where he played four years of midfield for Roy Simmons Jr. He graduated in 1973 with a degree in Recreational Management. He went on to do graduate work at Cortland State College from 1973-1975, where he also served as assistant lacrosse coach for two seasons and an assistant football coach for one season. Prior to coming to Lehigh he was the head lacrosse coach at Binghamton High (NY) where he taught and coached for 11 seasons.
Shreve brings extensive coaching experience to the Mountain Hawks. He has been involved with a championship team at every level of lacrosse. In addition to playing on a high school championship team at Fayetteville-Malius (NY), he coached in three championship programs. While at Cortland State, the 1975 team won the National Championship. In 1996 he became one of four coaches selected by the National Interscholastic Lacrosse Association to coach the Under-19 USA World Team. The team traveled to Japan for the World Games where it defeated Australia in the final game to win the World Championship. Shreve also was serving as assistant coach at Lehigh during the 1999 season when the Mountain Hawks last captured the Patriot League Championship.
The Shreve family resides in Center Valley, PA. Jim and his wife Victoria have four children: Justin a 1996 graduate and former midfielder for the University of Pennsylvania who is now a computer software developer; Kathryn who currently attends Columbia Graduate School; Suzanne who graduated from West Virginia university and currently works in North Carolina; and Vanessa who’s a sophomore dance major at Florida State University
