Dylan Shields enters his third season as Blinn College assistant men’s basketball coach and redshirt program coordinator. Prior to Blinn, he served as the assistant men’s basketball coach at East Central Community College for two seasons.

Shields was named the 2019-20 Texas Association of Basketball Coaches (TABC) assistant coach of the year for the junior college level. Blinn has qualified for the NJCAA Region XIV Tournament and posted 20-plus wins in each of his two seasons on the coaching staff.

The Buccaneers finished the 2019-20 season with a 23-10 overall record and 11-8 conference record. Blinn eliminated Coastal Bend College and Jacksonville College to reach the Region XIV championship.

In 2018-19, the Blinn men's basketball team finished the season with a 21-10 record and a trip to the Region XIV Tournament. 

During Shields’ first season at East Central Community College, the Warriors won seven of their last eight games and competed in the Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges Tournament and NJCAA Region 23 Tournament. While at ECCC, Shields recruited and coached three players who went on to sign Division I scholarships: Thurston McCarty (Cornell University), Cameron Diggs (University of North Alabama), and Jaquan Dotson (Savannah State University).

Prior to his first assistant coaching position at ECCC, Shields spent two seasons with the University of North Texas under head men’s basketball coach Tony Benford. He spent the 2014-15 season as a graduate assistant and video coordinator. In 2015, he took over as the interim director of operations for three months. He spent the 2015-16 season as the assistant director of operations.

Shields was a student manager for the University of Arkansas men’s basketball team all four years that he attended. He graduated from the University of Arkansas with a Bachelor of Science in Education with a specialty in kinesiology.

He was raised in El Dorado, Ark., and was a three-year letterman on the Parkers Chapel High School basketball team.

Shields is married to Taylor Smith of Choudrant, La. They have a daughter, Finley, and son, Wesson.