Jason Allen is entering his third season as the head women's lacrosse coach at Indiana Tech.
While at Tech he has coached 13 All-WHAC selections, nine All-Americans (NWLL and NAIA), eight WHAC All-Academic Team members, four national Defensive Player of the Week picks (NWLL and NAIA), three conference Defensive Player of the Week winners (WHAC), three NAIA-Daktronics Scholar-Athletes, three NWLL All-Stars, two national Offensive Player of the Week selections (NWLL), two conference Offensive Player of the Week picks (WHAC), one NWLL Academic All-American, one NWLL Championship All-Tournament Team selection, one WHAC Defensive Player of the Year, two CoSIDA Academic All-Americans and one NWLL Player of the Year.
Last year the Orange and Black went 15-5 and finished third in the WHAC with a 10-4 record, qualifying to the NAIA National Invitational for the second year in a row with an at-large selection. Tech would defeat Georgetown in the quarterfinals, 18-8, before falling to eventual national champion and top-seeded SCAD-Savannah, 14-13.
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During his first season with the Warriors, Allen guided the team to a 14-4 record and a Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference (WHAC) regular season championship, sharing honors with Davenport with matching 9-1 conference records. Tech received berths to the National Women's Lacrosse League (NWLL) National Championship and the first-ever NAIA National Invitational, where they fell to the Panthers in the opening round of both tournaments, who would go on to win both championships.
Prior to coming to Tech, Allen spent three years as the the head coach at NCAA Division III Defiance College, two seasons as an assistant at NCAA Division II Tiffin University and was the head coach at Notre Dame Academy in Toledo, Ohio, for five years prio to working at Tiffin.
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Allen has coached women’s lacrosse for 10 years and also has over a decade of experience coaching soccer at the high school level, and will use those ties to help recruit through the deep regional base. Allen was the first head coach in program history at Defiance, going 4-29 in two official NCAA seasons and 2-2 in an unofficial club season.
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Allen is United States Lacrosse Level 2 certified coach, a U.S. Lacrosse certified women's lacrosse official and earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Tennessee Technological University in 2003.
