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.
During his time with the Bears, Everett has helped mentor six All-MVC performers, including five on the first team. Missouri State has finished as Missouri Valley runners-up once (2022) and third place twice (2019 and 2021) in that span with a trip to the NIT in 2022. In addition, five Bears have earned MVC All-Newcomer Team honors and two have claimed All-Defensive Team laurels.
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.
