Background
Shealy was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1961, the son of football coach Dal Shealy.
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He attended Auburn High School in Auburn, Alabama, playing quarterback for the Auburn High Tigers before playing for Liberty Baptist College, now Liberty University, in 1979. After a year at Liberty, Shealy transferred to the University of Richmond, from where he graduated in 1984.
Career
He is currently the head coach at University. He was the defensive coordinator and cornerbacks coach at the University of Kansas. Shealy joined the coaching staff at Kansas in December 2009.
From 1995 to 1998, Shealy served as the head football coach at University, compiling a record of 27–14–1.
In 1998, he coached the team to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Football National Championship. Shealy immediately entered the coaching profession as a graduate assistant at Baylor University—receiving a master"s degree from that institution in 1986—before being appointed secondary coach at Mars Hill College in 1986.
Shealy became offensive coordinator at Austin Peay State University from 1988 to 1990, when he briefly left the coaching ranks. He returned to Mars Hill as offensive coordinator in 1992, and in 1993 left again for Austin Peay where he was secondary coach and, in 1994, defensive coordinator.
In 1995, Shealy was named head coach of the Cougars football team
In his first year, he led the team to a 4–4–1 record, followed by a 7–3 season in 1996, the first winning season for since 1990. Shealy left after that season to take a defensive coaching position at the United States Air Force Academy. His overall record at was 27–14–1.
At the Air Force Academy, Shealy coached the defensive secondary from 1999 through 2004.
In 2005, Shealy left to become defensive coordinator at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, where he also served as assistant head coach and safeties coach. In 2009, he began serving as the University of Richmond defensive coordinator.
In 2010 he took the role of cornerbacks coach with the University of Kansas. Shealy was named University"s first head football coach on April 9, 2012.
Achievements
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Foreign his efforts that season, Shealy was named the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Coach of the Year and the American Football Quarterly Schutt National Coach of the Year. He was named the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Coach of the Year and received the Shutt Coach of the Year Award from the American Football Quarterly.
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