Michael Shelton joined the Eagle basketball program in early January of 2014 as he will serve as the men’s basketball video coordinator.
Shelton comes to the Eagles after spending last season as an assistant men’s basketball coach at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. It was his second stint at Wesleyan as he was an assistant coach from Sept. 2009 to Sept. 2011. After those two seasons, Shelton was hired as an assistant coach at the University of New Haven where he spent one season before returning to Wesleyan.
In his one season at New Haven, the team posted the most wins (15) since 2004-05 and earned its first postseason tournament appearance since 2006-07.
Shelton attended Jeffersonville High School in Lafayette, IN where he helped his team compile a 62-17 record as a three-year varsity starter. During the 2000 season, he ranked among the top-100 seniors in Indiana under head coach Mike Broughton, the winningest coach in the state of Indiana during the 1990s.
Shelton began his collegiate career at Bellarmine University and finished his basketball career at Southeastern Illinois Junior College, where he received an associate degree. His team concluded the season ranked fourth nationally with a 27-5 record and lost in the conference championship to Wabash Valley. Shelton has previous head coaching and assistant coaching experience at the AAU, high school and middle-school level and recently earned a Business Degree from Southern Connecticut State University.
