(4-30-26) Veteran Columbia City Girls Basketball Coach Amy Shearer is stepping down as the Eagles Head Coach.

Amy Shearer

Shearer guided Columbia City to a 16-8 mark this past season and is 237-150 in 16 seasons at her alma mater. Her teams have posted five 20-win seasons, captured three Northeast 8 Conference titles (2020, 2022 and 2023) and claimed sectional and regional crowns in 2025.

She served as the North head coach in the 2024 Futures Game and as the assistant coach for the 2025 Junior All-Stars. In June she will be an Assistant for the Indiana All-Stars when they play Kentucky.

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The former Amy Lefever totaled 1,029 points as a Columbia City player, graduating in 1989. She matriculated to the University of Evansville, where she ranks fifth with 1,362 career points, shares the school record for 3-pointers in a season (86), is tied for second in career 3-pointers (204) and placed third in the 3-point competition held in conjunction with the 1994 NCAA men’s Final Four. She also was voted second-team all-Midwestern Collegiate Conference team in 1994, MCC all-academic in 1994 and was inducted to the UE Athletics Hall of Fame in 2015.

After earning a bachelor’s degree from UE in education, she became a teacher and coach. She was an assistant at Gibson Southern from 1994-97 and at Huntington North from 1997-2001 before returning to Columbia City for seven seasons as an assistant to Wayne Krieger. Shearer was named the Eagles’ head coach in 2010-11 and is only the program’s third varsity coach since 1975.

She earned a master’s degree in educational administration from Indiana University in 2000 and is in her 24th year as an eighth-grade U.S. history teacher for Whitley County Schools.

 Shearer has two children – daughter, Olivia, 24, and son, Peyton, 21.