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Allen Sharpe

Allen Sharpe

  • Title
    Head Men's Basketball Coach
  • Email
    asharpe@uwa.edu
  • Phone
    205-652-3525
Allen Sharpe was named the 11th men's basketball coach in the history of the University of West Alabama program, according to an announcement May 20, 2014 by then Director of Athletics Stan Williamson.
 
In his first season at the helm of West Alabama, Sharpe led the program to its most single season wins of 22, breaking the previous best of 21 games set in 1970-71, as well as the most single season Gulf South Conference wins of 15.
 
The Sharpe era was ushered in with the third largest margin of victory in school history in a 109-54 (+55) victory in the season’s home opener against Miles College. The Tigers finished the year as regular season GSC co-champions at 15-7 in the league, earning their first ever consecutive bid to the NCAA Division II Tournament where they finished 22-12 overall.
 
The 2018-19 season saw the Tigers once again rise and claim a share of the Regular Season championship with a 16-4 league record and 23-8 overall record. The 16 league wins and 23 overall wins set new records for the men's basketball program as Sharpe was named the Gulf South Conference Coach of the Year. After qualifying for the NCAA Tournament, Sharpe led the squad to the program's first tournament win since 1982 with a victory over Valdosta State.
 
Sharpe has had nine 20-win seasons and six seasons with 26 or more victories.
 
After beginning his coaching career as an assistant coach at Piedmont College in 2000, Sharpe took the head coaching position at Truett-McConnell where he went 70-25 in three years.
 
In five seasons at Wallace State, Sharpe went 136-30, averaging 27.2 wins per season. His record over the last four seasons at Wallace was 120-15 (89%) and the 2008 team went 30-0 and finished No. 1 in the NJCAA final poll.
 
Sharpe is the only coach in Arkansas-Monticello history to have four straight winning seasons and his 2011-12 team was 21-9, just the eighth 20-win season in UAM history. He coached the Great American Conference's leading scorer two of the last three years and the 2013 GAC player of the year. He was 70-42 over four seasons for the Boll Weevils. 
 
Sharpe played his collegiate basketball at Lipscomb University under legendary coach Don Meyer, scoring 1,431 career points for the winningest basketball program in the nation during the 90s.
 
He earned his Bachelor of Science from Lipscomb in 2000 and a Master of Arts from Piedmont College in 2002.
 
Sharpe and his wife, Susan, who also played basketball at Lipscomb, are the parents of three children – Garrison, Ally and Anderson.