Former All-American runner Tyler Deck Shipley begins his second season in 2021-22 after joining the La Salle cross country and track & field programs as an assistant coach during the 2020-21 academic year. Shipley came to the Explorers from nearby Temple, where he worked with the Owls’ cross country and track & field programs.
In his first season with the team, Shipley helped the Explorers boast six all-conference performers during the cross country season, highlighted by the men's individual championship won by Luke Jaciw-Zurakowsky. Meanwhile on the track, El Mancini won the Atlantic 10 outdoor 10,000-meter title and Grace Mancini reached the NCAA Championships in the 3,000-meter steeplechase.
Shipley spent the previous two years as an assistant for Temple’s men’s and women’s cross country teams while also assisting on the track, specifically serving as Director of Operations for the women’s track & field team. With the Owls, he helped the cross country teams to program-best finishes at the American Athletic Conference (AAC) Championships and the Mid-Atlantic Regionals, where he mentored four men’s all-region performers. The men’s and women’s cross country teams were the highest achieving academic teams at Temple during his time, and the women’s squad had the highest GPA in the AAC in 2018.
On the track, Shipley led an international recruiting effort that brought in distance runners from three countries and five states. He assisted the women’s middle distance and distance runners to a gold medal in the DMR and a clean sweep of the podium in the 800 meters at the 2020 AAC Indoor Championships. Shipley also coached three school records in the men’s indoor 5000 meters as well as assisting two regional qualifiers in the women’s 1500 meters, including Millie Howard, who qualified for the 2020 NCAA Indoor Championships.
Prior to Temple, Shipley spent the 2017-18 season as a volunteer assistant coach for the men’s and women’s cross country and track teams at Oklahoma State. While with the Cowboys, both the men’s and women’s teams qualified for the NCAA Cross Country Championships, while the indoor and outdoor track teams had 23 All-Big 12 honorees, three individual Big-12 titles and two All-Americans.
He spent the previous academic year at his alma mater, the University of Pudget Sound. There, he brought in two of the biggest classes in school history and mentored athletes to five All-West Region teams, three Northwest Conference teams, a national qualifier in the 800 meters, and three school records.
Shipley was a 10-time North West Conference Champion, six-time school record holder, two-time Division III All-American and seven-time national qualifier as an athlete at the University of Pudget Sound. He earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology and anthropology and was the recipient of the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Award. Shipley has a USATF Level I Track and Field Certification and earned a master’s in business from Temple in 2020, where he also served as an adjunct professor of human performance and education in Temple’s College of Public Health.
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