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Mahar enters his first season as a collegiate head coach after spending many years as an assistant coach. He inherits a program that completed a 12-5 season last spring while qualifying for the SUNYAC tournament for a fifth straight season.
Mahar is certainly no stranger to the Oneonta State men’s lacrosse program having played and coached for the Red Dragons from 1994 to 2001. Mahar, who transferred from St. Lawrence University in the fall of 1994, was a three-year starter and two-year team captain during his three years as a player. As a senior he helped lead the Red Dragons to its first winning season ever and its first postseason birth. He was selected as an All-Empire Lacrosse League |
midfielder while being an alternate for the USILA North/South Senior All-Star game. Mahar was an assistant coach under Jim Nagle in 1999 when the program made its only appearance in the NCAA tournament.
In the fall of 2001, Mahar began an advanced degree program at Endicott College in Massachusetts where he completed a master’s degree in organizational management in August of 2003. While at Endicott he spent the fall season of 2001 and the spring season of 2002 as the defensive coordinator for the men’s lacrosse team. In the fall of 2002 he was the offensive coordinator and introduced the “dice” offense.
Mahar moved back to Oneonta in January of 2003 where he took a job on campus as a residence hall director. He also became an assistant coach with the Hartwick College men’s lacrosse program, where he stayed for the 2003 and 2004 spring seasons.
Mahar most recently was a senior admissions counselor at the college while working with the men’s lacrosse program as a faculty mentor. |
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