Shea Dwyer joined the Hamilton football coaching staff as the team's offensive coordinator in April 2024. He will coach the team's quarterbacks.
Dwyer had previously been at Colby College since 2019. He started out as Colby's recruiting coordinator and was promoted to offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the 2022 season. One of the Mules' running backs made the 2022 all-NESCAC team under Dwyer's direction. Colby's offensive production increased from 121 points in 2021 to 156 his first season as coordinator.
Dwyer worked with the wide receivers as an assistant coach at Brown University in 2018, and one of his players went on to collect an all-Ivy League team selection.
The native of Marlborough, Conn., worked with the receivers and quarterbacks as the offensive coordinator and assistant coach at Massachusetts Institute of Technology during the 2016 and 2017 seasons. Dwyer developed a Division III academic all-American of the year recipient and two all-region and seven all-conference players.
Dwyer was in charge of the tight ends and served as the video coordinator at Muhlenberg College in 2014 and 2015. One of his tight ends was a first team all-American and first team all-Centennial Conference. Muhlenberg received an at-large bid to the 2014 NCAA Division III playoffs and was ranked 21st in the final American Football Coaches Association poll and 23rd in the final D3football.com poll with a 9-2 record.
In 2013 Dwyer coached the running backs and returners at Wesleyan University -- his alma mater -- and the Cardinals ended up NESCAC co-champions with a 7-1 record. He was an assistant coach at Connecticut state champion Xavier High School in 2012 and at RHAM High School in Hebron, Conn., in 2011.
Dwyer played at Wesleyan from 2006 to 2010. In his final season he set program records for most rushing yards in a game (255) and a season (1,242), and went over 100 yards in a game seven times. Dwyer was voted to the D3football.com all-America team and the all-East Region, all-New England, all-NESCAC and all-Eastern College Athletic Conference teams. He was a finalist for the Gagliardi Trophy, which goes to the Division III player of the year, the winner of the New England Writer's Association Gold Helmet Award, and a participant in the Division III Senior Classic All-Star Game. Dwyer received the C. Everett Bacon Award as the team's MVP and the athletic department's Carl Aherns Award as the top contributor to men's athletics. He was inducted into the National Football Foundation's Hampshire Honor Society in 2011. Dwyer earned a master's degree in social sciences and a bachelor's degree in government.
