Head Coach Todd Sheppard

 

 

Coach Todd Sheppard returns to ABAC for his second season leading the men’s basketball program.  Last season saw the Stallions win 14 games while losing 17.  Coach Sheppard hopes to improve upon that record significantly and with a full year to recruit, coach, and teach, the Stallions should be a team to be reckoned with in the tough GJCAA. 

 

Coach Sheppard arrived to Tifton in August of 2003 with a resume that includes coaching stints at the high school level as a head coach and several different assignments as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at the college level both at the junior college and NCAA levels.  Most recently, Sheppard was the lead assistant and recruiting coordinator for Coach Jim Yarbrough at nearby Valdosta State University.  In three years at Valdosta, he was instrumental in the recruiting and coaching efforts that led to an overall record of 54 wins and 29 losses including Valdosta State University’s only appearance in the NCAA Tournament’s “Sweet Sixteen” in 2002.  Prior to that assignment Sheppard was employed at Hiwassee College in Madisonville, Tennessee.  That team received a top 25 ranking for most of the season and finished 7^th in the country in scoring.  His collegiate coaching career began in Milledgeville, Georgia at Georgia College & State University.  Teaming with Terry Sellers the program posted an overall record of 36 wins and 19 losses during his two seasons.  The following season the program would win 26 games and make its first appearance in the NCAA Tournament.

 

Sheppard is a native of Conyers, Georgia where he attended Heritage High School.  He then attended and graduated from Georgia Southern University in 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts in English and a minor in psychology.  He also earned a Master’s of Education from Georgia College in 1996. 

Coach Sheppard is married to the former Rachel Brown of Milledgeville, Georgia.  They have two children, two year old Max and Lucy 18 months.