Muhlenberg College Men's Wrestling

Summary  • Career record through 2025-26 season: 89-60 (.597) in eight seasons • Has highest winning percentage of any coach in program history and is second in wins • Coached Mules to first national ranking in program history  • Coached 16 Centennial Conference champions and nine NCAA qualifiers • Two CC Scholar-Athletes of the Year and more than 30 NWCA Scholar All-Americans Coaching Highlights 2025-26 Record 4-7 • Ranked 16th in Division III in team GPA (3.65) • One Centennial Conference champion and two runners-up • Centennial Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Year • Two NWCA Scholar All-Americans 2024-25 Record 8-11 • One national qualifier • Two Centennial Conference champions • Seven regional placewinners, the most in program history • Won consolation bracket at Virginia Duals, including win against Division II team • Centennial Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Year • Ranked eighth in team GPA (3.71) • Nine NWCA Scholar All-Americans 2023-24 Record 9-3 • Two Centennial Conference champions • Third-place finish at CC Championships was best for the Mules since 2020 • Three Mules missed qualifying for nationals by one spot • Ranked 24th in team GPA (3.526) • Five NWCA Scholar All-Americans 2022-23 Record 13-11 • Two All-Americans • First time in program history that the Mules crowned two All-Americans in the same season • Three national qualifiers • Three Centennial Conference champions • Traveled to Iowa and recorded 21-20 win at 11th-ranked Central 2021-22 Record 12-8  • One Centennial Conference champion • Two national qualifiers • Won Messiah Petrofes Invitational for first time ever • Four NWCA Scholar All-Americans 2020-21 no season • 15 NWCA Scholar All-Americans (tied for the most in the country) 2019-20 Record 18-4 Centennial Conference dual-meet champions • Centennial Conference coach of the year • Three All-Americans (named by NWCA after cancellation of NCAA Championships) • Three national qualifiers (first for program since 2009) • Three Centennial Conference champions • Went undefeated in CC duals for the first time since 2001 • Came in second at CC Championships - best finish in 13 years • Finished third at Messiah Petrofes Invitational • Ranked 14th in team GPA (3.52) • Five NWCA Scholar All-Americans 2018-19 Record 18-7 • Set school record for wins in a season • Three Centennial Conference champions • Finished sixth at NCAA Mideast Regional - eight-place improvement from previous season • Won Scranton's Electric City Duals • Ranked 12th in team GPA (3.6) • Five NWCA Scholar All-Americans 2017-18 Record 7-9 • First Centennial Conference champion in nine years • Won Scotty Wood Duals Wrestling Highlights • Earned All-America honors by finishing eighth at 141 pounds at the NCAA Championships as a senior • First All-American in program history • Won the Centennial Conference championship in 2001, finishing with a record of 34-11 • Ended career with 71-31 record Coaching Career • 2003-17 Head wrestling coach, assistant football coach, assistant track & field coach and assistant athletic director in New Brunswick (N.J.) School District      > Re-established the defunct New Brunswick High School wrestling program after a 25-year absence in 2006      > Named Greater Middlesex Conference Blue Division coach of the year in 2016 • Co-founder of New Jersey Urban Wrestling League. Professional • Member of NCAA Division III Wrestling Committee • Former member of NWCA Division III ranking committee  

Lally was named Muhlenbergs head wrestling coach in 2014 and led a resurgence in the program in his first two years. With a young team consisting almost entirely of wrestlers with no previous collegiate experience, the Mules won four dual matches, their most in six years, in 2014-15. They improved by three places to sixth at the Centennial Conference Championships, competed at Madison Square Garden and recorded their first shutout in 11 years. In 2015-16, Muhlenberg fielded its largest squad in many years and took an in-season trip to Florida to compete in the Citrus Duals for the first time. For the previous two years, Lally was the head coach at Stony Brook University, where he created the schools first-ever collegiate competitive wrestling program through the National Collegiate Wrestling Association (NCWA), an organization that provides wrestling opportunities to schools that dont have an NCAA program. In his two years, Lally coached 12 national qualifiers and five wrestlers who earned national academic honors. With Lally as head coach, Stony Brook won a Best of Brand Award, given by the National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) for one of the most highly marketed wrestling programs in the country, regardless of division. A USA Wrestling bronze certified coach, Lally was a scholarship recipient for the NCWA Leadership Academy in the summer of 2014. Prior to Stony Brook, Lally was the head coach at Nazareth High School in Brooklyn and the junior high head coach at Port Jefferson Middle School. He also spent a year as a high school wrestling referee and volunteered with Beat the Streets youth wrestling program in Manhattan from 2009 to 2010. A native New Yorker, Lally grew up in the Lehigh Valley. At nearby Parkland High School, he was a District XI and Northeast Regional runner-up, losing in the state tournament to a future NCAA champion and Olympic bronze medalist. In high school he was also a two-time national qualifier in Freestyle and Greco for team Pennsylvania. Lally went on to attend and wrestle at the University of Pittsburgh. He received his bachelors degree in business and economics from SUNY Empire State College in 2014. Lally and his wife, Beth, a native of Williamsport, Pa., have two young children. Shaun Lally Head Wrestling Coach 3386 Former local high school standout and Division I wrestler Shaun Lally was named Muhlenbergs head wrestling coach in 2014 and led a resurgence in the program in his first two years. With a young team consisting almost entirely of wrestlers with no previous collegiate experience, the Mules won four dual matches, their most in six years, in 2014-15. They improved by three places to sixth at the Centennial Conference Championships, competed at Madison Square Garden and recorded their first shutout in 11 years. In 2015-16, Muhlenberg fielded its largest squad in many years and took an in-season trip to Florida to compete in the Citrus Duals for the first time. For the previous two years, Lally was the head coach at Stony Brook University, where he created the schools first-ever collegiate competitive wrestling program through the National Collegiate Wrestling Association (NCWA), an organization that provides wrestling opportunities to schools that dont have an NCAA program. In his two years, Lally coached 12 national qualifiers and five wrestlers who earned national academic honors. With Lally as head coach, Stony Brook won a Best of Brand Award, given by the National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) for one of the most highly marketed wrestling programs in the country, regardless of division. A USA Wrestling bronze certified coach, Lally was a scholarship recipient for the NCWA Leadership Academy in the summer of 2014. Prior to Stony Brook, Lally was the head coach at Nazareth High School in Brooklyn and the junior high head coach at Port Jefferson Middle School. He also spent a year as a high school wrestling referee and volunteered with Beat the Streets youth wrestling program in Manhattan from 2009 to 2010. A native New Yorker, Lally grew up in the Lehigh Valley. At nearby Parkland High School, he was a District XI and Northeast Regional runner-up, losing in the state tournament to a future NCAA champion and Olympic bronze medalist. In high school he was also a two-time national qualifier in Freestyle and Greco for team Pennsylvania. Lally went on to attend and wrestle at the University of Pittsburgh. He received his bachelors degree in business and economics from SUNY Empire State College in 2014. Lally and his wife, Beth, a native of Williamsport, Pa., have two young children.