Coaching Experiences
Head Coach, Track and Field and Cross Country, Fairleigh Dickinson University (2003-Present) -- 18th season
Interim Head Coach, Fairleigh Dickinson University (2002-2003)
Assistant Coach, Fairleigh Dickinson University (1998-2001)
Head Coach, Track and Field and Cross Country, Bergen Community College (1997-1998)
Assistant Coach, Track and Field, Montclair State (1997-1998)
Honors & Accomplishments Indoor Track and Field
2020 NEC Women's Track and Field Coach of the Year
2020 NEC Women's Track and Field Championship
2019 Women’s Indoor Track and Field NEC Runner-Up
2020 Men’s Indoor Track and Field Third Place
2017 Women’s Indoor Track and Field Third Place
19 Women’s All-NEC Indoor Track and Field First Team Performers
6 Women’s NEC Indoor Track and Field Most Outstanding Performers
17 Men’s NEC Indoor Track and Field First Team Performers
3 Men’s NEC Indoor Track and Field Most Outstanding Performers
1 Men's NCAA Qualifier
8 Women’s Athletes Hold School Records
9 Men’s Athletes School Records
Honors & Accomplishments Outdoor Track and Field
2016 Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Third Place in NEC Championship
11 Men's First Team All-NEC Performers
13 Women's First Team All-NEC Performers
6 Women’s Athletes Hold School Records
4 Men’s Athletes Hold School Records
1 Men's NEC Most Outstanding Performer
3 Men's NEC Most Outstanding Field Performers
2 Men's NEC Most Outstanding Rookies
4 Men's NCAA Qualifiers Outdoor
1 Women's Most Outstanding Performer
16 Women's NEC Champions
4 Women's NCAA Qualifiers
Honors & Accomplishments Cross Country
2003 Men's Cross Country Third Place in NEC Championship
1 Men's NCAA All-American
1 Men's NEC Individual Champion
1 Men's NEC Outstanding Performer
2 Men's NEC Rookie of the Year
6 Men's NEC All-Conference Performers
3 Women's NEC All-Conference Performers
1 Women's NEC All-Rookie Team Member
Sharlene Milwood-Lee, a 1994 graduate of the Metropolitan Campus, enters her 21st season with the Knights and 17th as head coach. Milwood-Lee was added to the staff in March of 1998 as an assistant coach. After serving one season as interim head coach, she was named head coach for the 2003-04 campaign. One of Fairleigh Dickinson’s most decorated student-athletes, she was inducted into the FDU Athletics Hall of Fame in 2004.
Milwood-Lee was an 11-time NEC Champion, and was also a two-time recipient of the “Outstanding Performer of the Meet” award given at the Northeast Conference Indoor Championships. She qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships in 1992 and 1993 in the 400-meters, and for the 1993 Outdoor Championships in the same event. Milwood-Lee also helped her 4x400m relay team capture a gold medal at the 1993 U.S. Olympic Festival.
Prior to joining the Knights’ staff, Milwood-Lee served as the Head Cross Country and Track & Field Coach at Bergen Community College in 1997-98. She coached two national qualifiers in the triple jump and long jump. She also served as an assistant with the Montclair State University Indoor Track & Field team during the 1997-98 campaign.
Milwood-Lee presently holds FDU records in the indoor 300m (39.43) and 400m (54.60), as well as the 400m (53.05) and 800 m (2:09.81) outdoor. Her 4x400m (3:49.87) and 4x200m (1:43.15) indoor relay teams and her 4x400m (3:43.04) and 4x200m (1:39.19) outdoor relay teams’ records also headline Fairleigh Dickinson’s all-time record list.
The Knights’ veteran coach earned a B.A. in english, with a writing concentration and also received her Master's of Sports Administration. She and her husband, Oswald, reside in Paterson, N.J., with their two children, Olajuwon and Jayla.
