Virginia State University Athletics

The 2023-24 season will mark Shaun Church's first season as the inaugural Head Coach of the Virginia State University Men's Lacrosse team in 2023. The Trojans Athletic Department previously announced the addition of men's lacrosse as an official university-sponsored sport in 2022.

Coach Church is well-versed in the lacrosse community with nearly a decade of coaching in the youth lacrosse community as well as community college.

Coach Church led Monroe Community College to top-ten NJCAA finishes every year from 2018 to 2022, while also being the EDI Region 3 Ambassador. He also coached the Pittsford Youth Lacrosse team and Nationals Sweetlax Lacrosse Club.

He also coached with the MuDD Academy and was a part of the NLA Pro. He also provided leadership to the Monster Elite Lacrosse team as the Head Coach from 2018-2022. He coached the Greece Storm Youth Lacrosse team from 2020-2021.
 
In 2017, Coach Church was the Head Coach of the Team Turkey during the Euro Box Championships. He was the Assistant Coach at Onondaga Community College in 2017 when they won the NJCAA National Championship.
 
Coach Church was the Head Coach at ASA Community College from 2015-2016 where he sent a student-athlete to play division one lacrosse (Kier Johnson - Hampton University) for the first time in program history. He was also Head Coach of the Brooklyn Crescents lacrosse team.
 
In 2014, he was the Offensive Coordinator of King College where he led the #2 ranked conference in the respective conference.
 
Shaun Church got his coaching career started at Eastern University as a Graduate Assistant in 2013 as he helped lead the team to a MACC Conference Championship.
 
Coach Church’s playing career shows that he is both a leader and a winner. Church started his collegiate playing career at Onodaga Community College where he was the captain of the 2009 team that went on to win the NJCAA National Championship.

He went on to Salisbury University where he graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in psychology. As a student-athlete, Church won back-to-back National Championships.
 
Shaun Church was born in Southside Jamaica, Queens, and attended Hicksville High School.