EJ Shelby

EJ Shelby

EJ Shelby joined the Millikin football coaching staff in June 2022. Shelby will coach the Big Blue wide receivers and tight ends. Shelby will also serve as the program's Academic Success Coordinator.

The Birmingham, Alabama native comes to Millikin from Kentucky Christian University in Grayson, Ky. where he served as the pass game coordinator and wide receivers coach. 

After serving in the United States Air Force, Shelby played junior college football and baseball at College of the Desert where he earned second team all-conference honors as a cornerback. He completed his playing career at Taylor University in Upland, Ind. while earning his degree in exercise science. He attended Arizona State while simultaneously continuing to grow his coaching profile, earning a degree in Health Informatics. 

Shelby began his coaching career at Concordia University St. Paul in 2015 as a volunteer assistant coach before being promoted to the safeties coach in the spring of 2016. He spent the 2016 season as the wide receivers coach at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wis. before returning to Minnesota to serve as the quality control/wide receivers coach at St. Olaf University. Shelby spent one year at Hamline University coaching the wide receivers, then returned to Concordia St. Paul for his second stint with the program.Â