Shelton Felton - Football Coach - University of Akron Athletics

Shelton Felton

Title:
Assistant Coach | Outside Linebackers | Defensive Ends
Email:
fbrecruit@uakron.edu
Phone:
(330) 972-7466

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Shelton Felton enters his first season as the outside linebackers and defensive ends coach in 2019 at the University of Akron.

He served as the quality control analyst at the University of Tennessee in 2018.

He was previously the outside linebackers coach for Chattanooga for two seasons. He was elevated to assistant head coach following the 2017 season. Felton helped guide UTC to the No. 1 defense in the Southern Conference. The Mocs were also No. 25 in the FCS in total defense (326.4 yds/game) last year.

Felton came to UTC after spending the previous two seasons as the head coach at Crisp County High School in Cordele, Ga. Named the first African-American head coach in school history, Felton’s Crisp County team went 3-7 in his first year in 2015. He followed that with a school-record 13-1 in 2016. Felton was named the 2016 Georgia sports Writers Association Coach of the Year, Recruit GA Coach of the Year, and Region 1AAA Coach of the Year as well as the Georgia High School Football Daily Coach of the Week twice.

The Cougars went 10-0 in the regular season for the first time, and advanced to the state semifinals, also a first for the program. He also coached Markaviest Bryant (first in school history) and Quay Walker to All-America honors.

A veteran of the Georgia High School ranks, Felton spent two seasons at Colquitt County High School where he was the co-defensive coordinator and defensive line coach for the Georgia 6A championship team in 2014. Felton was named the 2014 GACA Assistant Coach of the Year for Georgia 6A.

He also spent three years as the defensive coordinator at Dooly County coaching future Auburn All-American Montravious Adams.

He began his career at Crisp County as the linebackers coach and defensive coordinator from 2005-09.

During his prep coaching career, Felton helped elevate more than 20-plus players into Division I football careers.

A native of Cordele, Ga., Felton was a defensive lineman at Troy from 1999-02, where he earned a bachelor's degree in social work in 2002 and a master's degree in education in 2008. He also earned an E.D.S. in physical education from Jacksonville State in 2012.

Felton, 39, and his wife Laquanda have four children: Alexius; Shelton, Jr.; Shemori; and Shelton III.