Michael Shelton enters his first season as an assistant coach for the men's basketball team.
Prior to arriving at New Haven, Shelton spent two seasons as an assistant coach under Joe Riley at Wesleyan University. He comes to Connecticut from the Indiana/Kentucky area and graduated from Jeffersonville Indiana High School in 2000. While in high school, Shelton 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 received a scholarship to play basketball for Division II, 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.
