Phillip Shumpert (born June 10, 1974) is an American college basketball coach, who is currently an assistant coach for the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns. He previously was the interim head coach at North Carolina A&T.
| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Assistant coach |
| Team | Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns |
| Conference | Sun Belt Conference |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | July 10, 1974 Fulton, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 2006–2007 | Columbia HS (assistant) |
| 2007–2008 | Lawson State CC (assistant) |
| 2008–2009 | West Alabama (assistant) |
| 2009–2013 | Lawson State CC |
| 2013–2014 | Southern Poly (assistant) |
| 2014–2015 | Jackson State (assistant) |
| 2015–2016 | Lawson State CC |
| 2016–2017 | Starr's Mill HS (associate head coach) |
| 2019–2022 | North Carolina A&T (assistant) |
| 2022–2023 | North Carolina A&T (interim HC) |
| 2023–present | Louisiana (assistant) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 13–19 (.406) |
Coaching career
editShumpert started his coaching career at Columbia High School as an assistant where he would coach for one year. He would then move on to Lawson as an assistant coach for one year,[1] before receiving an assistant coaching job at West Alabama which he accepted and coached at for one year.[2] He would then return as the head coach for Lawson where he would stay for four years.[1] Next he would be hired as an assistant at Southern Poly for one year[3] From there he would take an assistant coaching job at Jackson State for one year.[4] He would then return to Lawson as their head coach for one year.[1] Shumpert would then go to Starr's Mill High School as their associate head coach for a year, before becoming a consultant Georgia Hoop Circle for two years.[1] He would then return to the college ranks as an assistant coach for North Carolina A&T.[5] He would hold that position for three years, but on August 18, 2022, head coach Will Jones was fired and Shumpert was named as the Interim head coach for North Carolina A&T.[6] In his season as the interim head coach for the Aggies he went 13-19 and was not retained at the end of the year.[7]
He was named an assistant coach for the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns on September 1, 2023.[8]
Head Coaching Record
editCollege
edit| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina A&T (Colonial Athletic Association) (2022–2023) | |||||||||
| 2022–23 | North Carolina A&T | 13–19 | 8–10 | 7th | |||||
| North Carolina A&T: | 13–19 (.406) | 8–10 (.444) | |||||||
| Total: | 13–19 (.406) | ||||||||
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National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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References
edit- ^ a b c d "PHILLIP SHUMPERT". North Carolina A&T Athletics. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
- ^ "Shumpert new UWA assistant basketball coach". The Tuscaloosa News. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
- ^ Adams, Zach. "Shumpert hired as Southern Poly assistant basketball coach". Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
- ^ "Jackson State Dirt…". Hoop Dirt. Retrieved 18 May 2023.
- ^ "North Carolina A&T's Will Jones adds two new members to his coaching staff". HBCU Sports. Retrieved 18 May 2023.
- ^ "North Carolina A&T fires coach Will Jones". Yardbarker. Retrieved 18 May 2023.
- ^ "Phillip Shumpert". Sports Reference. Retrieved 18 May 2023.
- ^ Perpetua, Tom (September 1, 2023). "Shumpert Named Men's Basketball Assistant Coach". Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns. Retrieved November 17, 2023.