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Brent Shelton
Assistant Coach

Office: (850) 718-2332
E-mail:
sheltonb@chipola.edu

 

 

Assistant Coach

Brent Shelton is currently in his fourth season under head coach Jeff Johnson at Chipola. Shelton serves as recruiting coordinator, coordinating administrative duties and works with the hitters and infielders.

Shelton has coached seventeen position players, in his three years at Chipola that have played at four-year universities and five position players that have signed professional baseball contracts. Victor Alvarez in 2003, Cole Armstrong in 2003, Tyler Flowers (second-team NJCAA All-American) in 2006, Steve Clevenger in 2006, and Rene Tosoni in 2006.

Upon graduation, Shelton entered the coaching profession as an assistant at P.K. Yonge Lab School in Gainesville, Fla. While working with one of the top high school baseball programs in Florida for one season, he coached 2 players that are currently playing minor league baseball, Flint Wipke (Angels), and Ryne Malone (Cubs). He then moved back home to Liberty County High School in Bristol, Fla., where he spent a year as an assistant in baseball and football.  During the 2004-05 seasons, Shelton served has the head baseball coach at Sneads HS in Sneads, FL,  compiling a 25-24 record during two seasons and taking the Pirates to their 3rd state tournament appearance in the school’s history.

Shelton moved into the collegiate coaching ranks in 2003 as an assistant at Chipola for one year. At Chipola he was responsible for the administrative activities, worked with the hitters and coached first base. Shelton re-joined the Chipola staff during the 2006 season, where he helped the Indians to an appearance in the FCCAA State Tournament during that season.  Shelton also was an assistant on the Indians' 2007 and 2008 FCCAA State Championship and NJCAA National Championship Team during the 2007 season.

Shelton also spent seven summers as a head coach of SWAT and the Panhandle Indians where he has coached 17 college players: Travis Anderson (FSU), Jon Dortch (Mercer), Adam Gordon (Florida A&M), Logan Willis (CFCC), Kurt Lewis (North Florida), Matt Creamer (Lynn College), Bryant Elkins (North Florida CC), Andrew Gay (Chipola), Kevin McCoy (Chipola), Rex Wade (Gordon College), John Travis (Wallace-Dothan), Hunter Park (Gulf Coast), Matt Miller (Tallahassee CC), Sean Bierman (Lurleen B. Wallace), Bill Carpenter (Rollins), and David Travis (Chipola).

 

THE BRENT SHELTON FILE

Born: Brent Deason Shelton, Jan. 20, 1979 in Tallahassee, FL.
HS Education: Liberty County High School
College Education: Bachelor of Science degree in Exercise and Sport Sciences from the University of Florida.
Coaching Career: Assistant P.K. Yonge Lab School, Gainesville, FL, 2001; assistant Liberty County HS, Bristol, Fla., 2002; assistant Chipola College, 2003; head coach Sneads HS 2004-05; assistant Chipola College 2006-present