SPRINGFIELD – Missouri State University Director of Athletics Kyle Moats and men's basketball head coach Dana Ford announced Friday the promotion of Sheldon Everett to assistant coach and Michael Collins to director of basketball operations.
 
Everett has served the past two seasons as the director of basketball operations for Ford's Bears, while Collins has been a graduate assistant on the MSU staff for that same two-year span.
 
Everett replaces Jake Headrick, who departed the Missouri State staff earlier this spring to pursue other opportunities.
 
The internal promotions are contingent upon final approval by the Missouri State University Board of Governors at its next scheduled meeting.
 
 
Michael Collins
After serving the previous two years as a graduate assistant for the Missouri State men's basketball staff, Michael Collins was promoted to a full-time role in 2020 as the program's director of basketball operations.
 
Collins was part of coach Dana Ford's first staff at Missouri State and joined the Bears in the fall of 2018 while pursuing his master's in Sports Management, which he completed in May. 
 
Previously, he worked with the men's basketball staff at Colorado State University in Fort Collins where he completed his undergraduate work in 2017 with a double major in Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. At CSU, he served as head manager for three seasons from 2014-17 before taking on the role of video coordinator in August of 2017.
 
He joined the CSU coaching staff in the spring of 2018 under interim Rams head coach Jase Herl, who is also part of the current Missouri State coaching staff under Ford.
 
Originally from Highlands Ranch, Colo., Collins has also worked extensively with team travel, logistics and accommodations during his time at Missouri State.
 
 
Sheldon Everett
After joining the Missouri State men's basketball staff in 2018 as the director of basketball operations, Sheldon Everett was promoted to assistant coach during the summer of 2020.
 
Prior to arriving in Springfield, he spent the previous five seasons (2012-2017) as an assistant coach at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. During his time in Miami, Everett coordinated the recruiting efforts for the RedHawks and oversaw the development of Miami's guards.
 
Everett came to Miami after three seasons (2009-12) as an assistant coach with the men's basketball program at Tennessee State under coach John Cooper. Alongside, Ford, Everett helped Tennessee State to a 20-13 record in 2011-12, the program's first winning record since 1995-96 and the Tigers' first 20-win season in 32 years. The team knocked off seventh-ranked Murray State and later defeated their first SEC opponent with an upset of South Carolina. TSU nearly earned a berth to the NCAA Tournament, falling to Murray State by two points in the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament final.
 
Prior to his time with the men's program at TSU, Everett spent one year (2008-09) as an assistant coach with the Tigers' women's basketball program. During his time on the TSU women's basketball staff, Everett helped the team to its first winning record in 14 years.
 
Everett joined the Tennessee State staff after spending the 2007-08 season as the director of basketball operations at his alma mater, South Carolina, under head coach Dave Odom. While at South Carolina, Everett served as an assistant coach for the American Team of the 2008 DiGiorno College All-Star Game presented by the NABC at the 2008 NCAA Final Four in San Antonio, Texas.
 
Everett was a two-year letterman and two-time SEC All-Academic Team selection at South Carolina, helping the Gamecocks to a 23-11 record and an NCAA Tournament berth in 2004. He earned his bachelor's degree in business administration with an emphasis in management and marketing at South Carolina in 2004.
 
He is the proud father of two daughters, Kinsley and Lennon.