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St. Lawrence University

Canton, NY 13617
New York Northeast
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Sinead McSharry

Sinead McSharry was named the head women's soccer coach at St. Lawrence University in January 2018.


McSharry, the fifth coach in program history, comes to St. Lawrence after a successful five-year stint as the assistant women's soccer coach, recruiting coordinator and strength and conditioning coach at Hamilton College.


In her five seasons with the Saints, she has posted a 35-20-9 record and advanced to the Liberty League semifinals in 2018 and 2019. She has coached two USC Scholar All-Americas, back-to-back All-Region honorees in Julia Mulhern and Hannah Arment and has coached eleven All-Conference players, and had 16 members earn Liberty League All-Academic honors in 2022.


McSharry helped lead Hamilton to an at-large bid to the NCAA Division III championships in 2017. The Continentals finished sixth in the NESCAC (New England Small College Athletic Conference) regular season standings, upset Middlebury 1-0 in the quarterfinal round of the NESCAC championship and nearly pulled off another upset against Tufts in the conference semifinals, falling to the Jumbos 3-2. Hamilton ranked 22nd nationally in shutout percentage (.611) last year, and the Continentals also qualified for the NESCAC quarterfinals in 2015 and 2016.


During McSharry's tenure at Hamilton, three players earned Second-Team All-NESCAC honors, 40 were named Academic All-NESCAC, and four earned All-NESCAC Sportsmanship Awards.


In addition to her role at Hamilton, McSharry served as the Director of Coaching for the Odyssey Sport FC in Utica, New York, since 2013, and was the Regional Coach for the Empire Development Academy since October 2017. She also served as the Lead Soccer Coach at Manchester United FC in Manchester, England, from 2010-2014, where she was one of 20 staff members chosen to attend the Manchester United Premier Cup in Shanghai, China.


She also volunteered as a lead coach at FOOTICA, is a program inspired by Luma Mufleh of "Fugees Family," a former Smith College soccer player. FOOTICA is an after-school program that offers free soccer coaching to refugee/underserved children living in the city of Utica.


McSharry graduated with a Bachelor of Science in sport science from London's University of Greenwich. She earned her Masters of Science in exercise and sports studies from Smith College, while serving as the graduate assistant soccer coach and teaching fellow, and holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from the University of Gloucestershire and a Postgraduate Certificate in Secondary Physical Education from the University of Greenwich.


She holds her UEFA B & USSF B coaching license, a CSCS strength and conditioning certification and is a Coach-Mentor Facilitator for the U.S. Soccer Foundation.


As an athlete, McSharry played professionally for the Millwall Lionesses FC in the National Premier League.

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Willi Steinrotter

Willi Steinrotter also works with the Saints' soccer programs as an assistant coach. He came to St. Lawrence after serving as the head men's soccer coach at Clarkson for 19 years, becoming the winningest coach in the program's history. He coached his 1993 Empire Athletic Association championship team to the NCAA Division III semifinals and his 1998 team lost in overtime to St. Lawrence in the regional final. He had two national All-America team members during his Clarkson tenure and 12 regional All-America selections. He was 1993 EAA and NSCAA Regional Coach of the Year in soccer.


Steinrotter was named the Alpine skiing coach at St. Lawrence in the spring of 2009. During his tenure, he has continued to grow the program into one of the best in the Northeast. He coached his first collegiate All-American in 2011, when Ashley-Kate Durham '13 finished in third place overall at the NCAA Championships. Steinrotter then had three skiers earn bids to the 2012 NCAA Championships, the most in a season in program history.


In 2017, three skiers earned National Collegiate All-Academic Ski Team honors from the United States Collegiate Ski Coaches Association (USCSCA). Steinrotter also coached multiple athletes to their first EISA top-10 finishes.


Steinrotter, a 1989 graduate of Hobart and a skier/coach on the Hobart and William Smith club ski teams while in college, left Clarkson as the program's all-time leader in wins as a soccer coach and also led several of his Alpine ski teams to the U.S. Collegiate Ski and Snowboarding Association national championships. Steinrotter’s Alpine teams at Clarkson were consistently among the best in the Adirondack region of the USCSA and his 2008-09 team produced two USCSA All America skiers. A former president of the USCSA, he took teams to five straight national championship meets from 2000-2004 and had a sixth place finish in the 2007 national championships.

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Mike Toshack

A former Saints assistant coach who has had an outstanding career as an assistant in professional soccer, Mike Toshack was named the fourth head coach in program history in July 2015, relieving former head coach Bob Durocher, who was promoted to Director of Athletics and Recreation in May 2015.


The 2022 men's soccer season was the eighth for Toshack, who led the Saints to Liberty League Championship in, 2022, and 2021, and to regular season and tournament titles in 2015, 2018, and 2022. In 2015, St. Lawrence finished that year with a 16-4-2 record and advanced as far as the Sweet 16 in the NCAA Tournament. In 2018, and 2022 Toshack was named Liberty League Coach of the Year.


Toshack has accumulated a 78-35-17 record with the Saints thus far. He has coached three NSCAA/USC All-Americas in Harry Copeland '16 (2014, 2015), Jethro Dede '19, and Marvin Sibanda '23, thirteen regional All-Americas, one D3soccer.com All-America, numerous All-Liberty League honorees and seven conference major award winners, including Marvin Sibanda '23, who was named Liberty League Player of the Year in 2021, and 2022, Ben Woelfinger, who was named Liberty League Defensive Player of the Year in 2022, Jethro Dede '19, who was named Rookie of the Year in 2015, and earned back-to-back Player of the Year honors in 2017 and 2018, and Ryan Campbell, who was named Rookie of the Year in 2022.


Prior to joining the Saints, Toshack had spent three seasons as an assistant and goalkeeper coach for the Portland Timbers for in the MLS and spent a total of eight seasons with three different teams in Major League soccer (Houston Dynamo, Toronto FC, Portland Timbers).


Toshack coached in over 500 professional games and coached in the 2001 FIFA Youth World Championship in Argentina. He was the owner and operator of Global Goalkeeping, a soccer education company specializing in goalkeeper development from 1993-2003 and was the Director of Goalkeeping for Global Premier Soccer from 2004-2005.


He was director of goalkeeping for the Vancouver Whitecaps in the United Soccer League from 2005-07 before moving to the Houston Dynamo in Major League Soccer as assistant and goalkeeper coach in 2007. He held the same position with the Toronto FC from 2009 till 2012 before joining Portland in January of 2012.


Toshack served as an assistant coach for the Saints under Durocher from 1994 until 2003 and was a member of the coaching staff for the 22-0-0 national championship team. He also coached the U20 Canadian Men's National team from 1998 to 2001 and began his professional soccer coaching career with the Montreal Impact of the United Soccer League in 2002. Saints teams went 115-20-11 during his tenure as assistant coach and had a 60-game unbeaten streak. He coached Greg Sutton '99 who went on to a professional goalkeeping career and Dustin Crooker '03 who was the national statistical champion in goals against average in 2000.


A graduate of Acadia University and a native of Prescott, Ontario, Toshack was assistant coach and goalkeeper coach for the 2007 Major League Soccer Cup Champion Houston Dynamo and was on the coaching staff for the Major League Soccer All-Star Team for the match against the European Champion Bayern Munich in 2014. His Portland Timbers goaltender, Donovan Ricketts, was named Major League Soccer Goalkeeper of the Year in 2013.


Toshack resides in Canton with his wife Susan and their son Ryan.

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Ian Blugh

Blugh joined the St. Lawrence men's soccer staff as an assistant coach in August 2023.


Blugh, a graduate of SUNY Cortland, has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology. Before his time at Cortland, Ian began his collegiate degree at Division I Iona playing in three games with the Gaels. Blugh found his way to Cortland where he became a staple of the Red Dragons' back line and served as a team captain. In 49 games, Ian contributed two goals and one assist while racking up SUNYAC First and Third Team honors, two First Team All-Region nods, and a SUNYAC Defensive Player of the Year.


Blugh earned his Grassroots Coaching License in 2023 and has previous coaching experience at the youth level. Ian spent the Spring of 2023 coaching 15–17-year-old players at the NY-ID Soccer camp, and has spent time doing personal soccer training and volunteering at a local U-8 soccer clinic.

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