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Allen Sharpe was named the UAH women's basketball head coach in April 2024.

During his first two seasons in Huntsville, Sharpe has amassed a 57-13 record. During his second season, the Chargers finished 32-6, setting a program-record for wins, while establishing the most successful season in program history.

The Chargers earned the program's first-ever Gulf South Conference regular season championship, earned a Top 25 national ranking for the first time in program history — reaching a No. 4 ranking — and hosted the NCAA South Regional for the first time during the 2025-26 season. UAH also reached the NCAA Division II Final Four for the first time in program history.
 
Sharpe is the 13th head coach in UAH women’s basketball program history and previously led both the Wallace State men’s and women’s teams as recently as 2023-24.
 
His teams at Wallace State combined for three All-ACCC honorees this season, as the men’s team won the ACCC Division I tournament and the women’s squad were runners-up. His men’s squad also made it to the second round of the 2024 NJCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship.
 
In a career that spans 22 years, Sharpe owns a record of 496-210 following a 25-6 record with Wallace State’s women’s squad this season to go along with a 26-9 mark on the men’s side.
 
Prior to returning to Wallace State in 2020 where he was previously head coach from 2005-10, Sharpe led NCAA Division II men’s programs Arkansas-Monticello from 2010-14 and West Alabama from 2014-20 with a career record of 178-114 between the two stints.
 
He achieved 20 or more wins in four seasons at the Division II level, while reaching the NCAA tournament twice with West Alabama. At UAM, Sharpe was the first-ever coach to achieve four consecutive winning seasons in program history.
 
Overall, Sharpe has guided his teams to 13 seasons with 20 wins or more.
 
He began his coaching career as an assistant coach at Piedmont College, following a collegiate playing career at Lipscomb under legendary head coach Don Meyer from 1995-2000. Sharpe scored 1,431 career points for one of the most successful basketball programs in the nation during the 1990s.
 
Sharpe and his wife, Susan, who also played basketball at Lipscomb, are the parents of three children – Garrison, Ally and Anderson.