Women's Soccer

Shawn Uhlenhake will enter his first season as head coach of the Kansas City Kansas Community College men’s soccer program in 2025, following a highly successful eight-year tenure leading the women’s team at KCKCCC. Uhlenhake departs the women’s side as the program’s all-time winningest coach and the only one in school history to guide the Blue Devils to the 2024 NJCAA DI Women's Soccer National Tournament in Wichita, Kan. His 2024 squad capped his final campaign by winning the Region VI Championship and earning a No. 7 national ranking in the final NJCAA DI women’s soccer poll.

During his time at KCKCC, Uhlenhake transformed a struggling women’s program—one that had recorded just six wins in its first four seasons—into a nationally competitive force. After taking the helm in 2016, he guided the team to multiple program milestones, including a school-record 13-win season in 2019, the program’s first Jayhawk Conference regular season championship and Region VI title in 2020, and another Region VI championship and national tournament appearance in 2024. That 2020 campaign also earned him NJCAA Region VI Coach of the Year honors. Uhlenhake compiled an overall record of 75-59-16 during his eight seasons at KCKCC.

His teams consistently produced standout individual performers. In 2019, Melissa Siegel led the nation in assists, while Corrine Hughes became the program’s first NJCAA DII All-American. Forward Katharina Oelshlager was named KJCCC Offensive Player of the Year in both 2020 and 2021. In 2024, standout midfielder Sierra Montez earned NJCAA All-America honors, further cementing the Blue Devils’ national profile under Uhlenhake’s leadership.

A native of Springfield, Mo., Uhlenhake moved to Topeka, Kan., in middle school, where he shifted his focus fully to soccer. He starred at Topeka Hayden and Topeka High, playing a key role as a defender on the 1996–97 state runner-up team. Uhlenhake enjoyed an exceptional collegiate playing career, helping lead State Fair Community College to its first NJCAA national tournament appearance in his freshman year and a national championship in his sophomore season. He later transferred to Lindenwood University, where he helped the Lions qualify for the NAIA national tournament in both of his final two seasons, finishing each year in the Top 10.

Uhlenhake began coaching in youth soccer, spending seven years with the Olathe Youth Soccer Club (now Kansas Rush) and one season with Blue Valley Sporting. His collegiate coaching career began in 2011 at Barton Community College. Later that year, he was named head men’s and women’s coach at Western Texas College. In his debut season, the men’s team captured both district and region titles and made the first NJCAA national tournament appearance in program history. Uhlenhake was recognized as both District and Region Coach of the Year.

In 2016, Uhlenhake returned to the Midwest to lead KCKCC’s women’s program—fulfilling a personal goal to be closer to family. He resides in Kansas City with his wife, Tiffany Curtis, a Tipton, Mo., native who works in the local medical field. The couple has one daughter, Molly, a student at Piper Elementary School.