Jim Shipper enters his fourth season as an assistant coach with the Blue Jay men's basketball team in 2019-20.
Shipper brought more than a decade of scholastic coaching experience to the program when he joined retired coach Bob Schlosser's staff prior to the 2016-17 season.
“I’ve always had aspirations to coach at the collegiate level,” Shipper told lancasteronline.com. “It was a goal of mine to coach at the NCAA level.”
In three seasons at Pequea Valley High School from 2013-16, Shipper's teams won a combined 21 games with third-place finishes in Section Four of the Lancaster-Lebanon League each of the last two years.
Shipper won a pair of Commonwealth Christian Athletic Conference (CCAC) championships and five division championships during stops at Lancaster County Christian and Living Word Academy. His teams appeared in the District 3 tournament nine times. Shipper was the head coach at Harrisburg Christian from 2003-06.
The Middletown native has collected more than 160 victories during his scholastic coaching career. Shipper and Schlosser have a professional relationship spawned through Shipper working at Schlosser's coaching camps.
Shipper has worked college numerous college games and conducted overseas clinics in Latvia, Nigeria and Spain. In addition to his work as an assistant coach with the Blue Jays, Shipper is the basketball coordinator at Spooky Nook Sports in Manheim.
Updated 11/4/2019
