Recruiting Areas: Long Island (Sections 8 and 11)
Jon Shelton begins his second season on the Cortland football coaching staff in 2018. He serves as the program’s co-defensive coordinator and coaches the defensive line.
Shelton is a coaching veteran with more than 20 years of experience at a variety of levels. He was a graduate assistant and defensive line coach at Division I University of Kansas from 2003-04 and the defensive line coach at Division I University of New Hampshire from 2005-14, followed by two seasons as defensive coordinator and associate head coach at Division II Southern Connecticut State University in 2014 and 2015. While at New Hampshire, Shelton was the developer and lead presenter of the “SMART’’ program, a sexual assault prevention program aimed at educating male student-athletes.
From 1998-2003 Shelton served as defensive coordinator and assistant head coach at Bryant University (R.I.). He also has coached at the University of Maryland and Montgomery Community College (Md.), and most recently was defensive coordinator at Deerfield Academy (Mass.) in 2016. Shelton was selected to participate in the Bill Walsh NFL Minority Coaching Fellowship for three years - with the Eagles in 2014 and 2015 and with the Texans in 2016.
Shelton earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Maryland in 1997 and a master’s degree in education (counseling) from Providence College in 2003. A native of Rockville, Maryland, Shelton also attended and competed as an athlete at Montgomery Community College from 1983-85 and earned an associate’s degree in finance. He is a member of the Lincoln Park Athletic Hall of Fame in his hometown.
Jon resides in Binghamton, New York, with his fiance’ Caroline Dumian, and his dog and best friend, Jack.
