Phillip Shumpert | |
Current Title: | Assistant coach |
Current Team: | Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns |
Current Conference: | Sun Belt Conference |
Birth Date: | 10 July 1974 |
Birth Place: | Fulton, Mississippi, U.S. |
Coach Years1: | 2006–2007 |
Coach Team1: | Columbia HS (assistant) |
Coach Years2: | 2007–2008 |
Coach Team2: | Lawson State CC (assistant) |
Coach Years3: | 2008–2009 |
Coach Team3: | West Alabama (assistant) |
Coach Years4: | 2009–2013 |
Coach Team4: | Lawson State CC |
Coach Years5: | 2013–2014 |
Coach Team5: | Southern Poly (assistant) |
Coach Years6: | 2014–2015 |
Coach Team6: | Jackson State (assistant) |
Coach Years7: | 2015–2016 |
Coach Team7: | Lawson State CC |
Coach Years8: | 2016–2017 |
Coach Team8: | Starr's Mill HS (associate head coach) |
Coach Years9: | 2019–2022 |
Coach Team9: | North Carolina A&T (assistant) |
Coach Years10: | 2022–2023 |
Coach Team10: | North Carolina A&T (interim HC) |
Coach Years11: | 2023–present |
Coach Team11: | Louisiana (assistant) |
Overall Record: | 13–19 |
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.
Shumpert 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.<ref>Web site: North Carolina A&T fires coach Will Jones . Yardbarker . 18 May 2023. 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.[6]
He was named an assistant coach for the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns on September 1, 2023.[7]