Phillip Shumpert

Phillip Shumpert

Current position
Title	Assistant coach
Team	Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns
Conference	Sun Belt Conference
Biographical details
Born	(1974-07-10) July 10, 1974 (age 50) 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)

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.

Coaching career

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.[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

College

Statistics overview

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)
National champion         Postseason invitational champion         Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion       Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion       Conference tournament champion

References

1. "PHILLIP SHUMPERT". North Carolina A&T Athletics. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
2. "Shumpert new UWA assistant basketball coach". The Tuscaloosa News. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
3. Adams, Zach. "Shumpert hired as Southern Poly assistant basketball coach". Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
4. "Jackson State Dirt…". Hoop Dirt. Retrieved 18 May 2023.
5. "North Carolina A&T's Will Jones adds two new members to his coaching staff". HBCU Sports. Retrieved 18 May 2023.
6. "North Carolina A&T fires coach Will Jones". Yardbarker. Retrieved 18 May 2023.
7. "Phillip Shumpert". Sports Reference. Retrieved 18 May 2023.
8. Perpetua, Tom (September 1, 2023). "Shumpert Named Men's Basketball Assistant Coach". Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns. Retrieved November 17, 2023.