# Keith Shumate

Keith Shumate is an American baseball coach and former player, who is the head baseball coach of the Norfolk State Spartans. He played college baseball at Western Carolina from 1985 to 1988. He served as the head coach of the North Carolina A&T Aggies (1997–2011) and the Louisburg Hurricanes (2013–2015).

## Playing career

Shumate was a player for the Western Carolina Catamounts baseball program from 1985 to 1988.

## Coaching career

From 1994 to 1996, Shumate was the head coach at Grimsley High School in Greensboro, North Carolina.
After going 89–216 in his first 5 seasons, Shumate was unsure that he would be able to keep his job under new athletic's director, Charlie Davis, but just two seasons later he led the Aggies to their first MEAC championship in 12 years. On April 19, 2011, Shumate announced that he would be resigning at the end of the season.
Shumate stepped away from his coaching career in 2015 to watch his son's final two seasons of college baseball.
On July 18, 2012, Shumate was named the head coach of Louisburg College.
On August 25, 2017, Shumate was hired as an assistant coach by the Norfolk State Spartans baseball program. On September 28, 2017, Shumate was named the interim head coach after head coach Claudell Clark resigned.

## Head coaching record

Statistics overview :
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason |
| North Carolina A&T Aggies (Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference) (1997–2011) ||||||
| 1997 | North Carolina A&T | 4–45 | – | | |
| 1998 | North Carolina A&T | – | – | | |
| 1999 | North Carolina A&T | – | – | | |
| 2000 | North Carolina A&T | – | – | | |
| 2001 | North Carolina A&T | – | – | | |
| 2002 | North Carolina A&T | 19–39 | 6–11 | 3rd (South) | |
| 2003 | North Carolina A&T | 13–36 | 6–10 | 3rd (South) | |
| 2004 | North Carolina A&T | 23–28 | 10–8 | 4th | |
| 2005 | North Carolina A&T | 27–27 | 12–6 | 1st | NCAA Regional |
| 2006 | North Carolina A&T | 22–36 | 6–12 | 6th | |
| 2007 | North Carolina A&T | 28–31 | 11–7 | 2nd | |
| 2008 | North Carolina A&T | 29–30 | 11–6 | 2nd | |
| 2009 | North Carolina A&T | 21–34 | 9–8 | 5th | |
| 2010 | North Carolina A&T | 31–26 | 15–3 | 2nd | MEAC tournament |
| 2011 | North Carolina A&T | 21–34 | 10–8 | 3rd | MEAC tournament |
| North Carolina A&T: | North Carolina A&T: | 304–498 | 96–76 | | |
| Louisburg College Hurricanes (CAROLINAS JUNIOR COLLEGE CONFERENCE) (2013–2015) ||||||
| 2013 | Louisburg College | 34–15 | 17–9 | | |
| 2014 | Louisburg College | 27–23 | 8–16 | | Region X Runner-Up |
| 2015 | Louisburg College | 13–28 | 7–17 | | |
| Louisburg College (NJCAA): | Louisburg College (NJCAA): | 74–66 | 32–42 | | |
| Norfolk State Spartans (Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference) (2018–2022) ||||||
| 2018 | Norfolk State | 19–30 | 13–10 | 2nd (Northern) | MEAC tournament |
| 2019 | Norfolk State | 24–26 | 17–7 | 1st (Northern) | MEAC tournament |
| 2020 | Norfolk State | 3–13 | 0–0 | | Season canceled due to COVID-19 |
| 2021 | Norfolk State | 25–28 | 18–10 | 1st (Northern) | NCAA Regional |
| 2022 | Norfolk State | 15–32 | 12–18 | 4th | MEAC tournament |
| Norfolk State: | Norfolk State: | | 60–45 | | |
| Norfolk State Spartans (Northeast Conference) (2023–present) ||||||
| 2023 | Norfolk State | 9–42 | 6–24 | 11th | |
| 2024 | Norfolk State | 12–41 | 7–26 | 11th | |
| Norfolk State: | Norfolk State: | 107–212 | 13–50 | | |
| Total: | Total: | 411–710 | | | |
| National champion   Postseason invitational champion   Conference regular season champion   Conference regular season and conference tournament champion  Division regular season champion  Division regular season and conference tournament champion  Conference tournament champion ||||||