Steve Shields
Steve Shields (born March 9, 1965)
Teams coached: Arkansas-Little Rock Trojans
Arkansas-Little Rock record: 192-178 (.519)
Overall record^: 192-178 (.519)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 1 (2011)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
- Sun Belt Regular Season Champion: 5 (2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2012)
- Sun Belt Tournament Champion: 1 (2011)
Awards:
- Sun Belt Coach of the Year: 1 (2004)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2020 | Tarleton State (asst) |
| 2017-2019 | Southern Miss (asst) |
| 2016-2017 | Missouri (asst) |
| 2015-2016 | Missouri (special asst. to the HC) |
| 2003-2015 | Arkansas-Little Rock |
| 2000-2003 | Arkansas-Little Rock (asst) |
| 1996-2000 | McLennan CC |
| 1995-1996 | Kilgore CC (asst) |
| 1993-1995 | Pensacola JC (asst) |
| 1990-1993 | McLennan CC (asst) |
Steve Shields Facts
- Stephen Leonard Shields
- Born March 9, 1965
- Hometown: Waco, Texas
- Alma Mater: Baylor University (BA, 1988 & M.Ed, 1992)
- Started his collegiate career at Oklahoma City, but eventually landed at Baylor, where he played golf for his father
- Began coaching at alma mater Reicher Catholic HS in Waco, Texas, spending one year each as an assistant and head coach
- Moved on to the CC/JC level, with stints at McLennan CC in Waco, where he had previously played basketball prior to his transfer to Baylor, Pensacola JC (FL) and Kilgore CC (TX)
- Returned to McLennan in 1996, spending the next four years there as the head coach
- Named Texas Junior College Coach of the Year in 1998
- Joined Porter Moser‘s staff as an assistant at Division I Arkansas-Little Rock in 2000, spending three seasons in that role
- Elevated to head coach of the Trojans in 2003 and led the team for the next twelve seasons
- Went 192-178 overall, becoming the winningest head coach in the history of the program
- Won or shared five Sun Belt titles and led the Trojans to the NCAA Tournament in 2011
- Awarded 2004 Sun Belt COY honors after going 17-12 and winning the Sun Belt outright in his first year at the helm
- Fired in 2015 after going 13-18 and 15-17 in the previous two seasons
- Spent the next two years at Missouri with Kim Anderson, first as a special assistant then as a full assistant coach
- Worked at Southern Miss for two seasons, serving as an assistant coach under Doc Sadler
- Hired in April 2020 to be on Billy Gillispie‘s staff at Tarleton State for the program’s first year of Division I competition
- Left the program in December of the same year to return to North Little Rock as the city’s parks director
Steve Shields Coaching Tree
- Solomon Bozeman (Arkansas-Pine Bluff)
- Wes Flanigan (Little Rock)
- Joe Golding (Abilene Christian)
- Daniyal Robinson (Cleveland State)
^ overall record includes head coaching positions at the NCAA Division I level only