Coach Shawn James is the DOBO at Eastern Washington (NCAA D1) and shares his journey from playing HS in Texas before becoming a student-athlete at The University of Redlands (NCAA D3) before embarking on a coaching career. He coached at Dallas Christian College (NCCAA) and then worked the camp circuit before accepting an Player Development internship with the Dallas Mavericks where he became fluent in various film breakdown software and sparked up a friendship with Dirk Nowitzki - who apparently is one of the best trash talkers that nobody knows about!

Shawn accepted a GA position with Eastern Washington and after graduating was hired as their DOBO. Even during the COVID-19 pandemic, he not only was hired full time, but was recently got engaged to his longtime girlfriend. He is as anti "coach talk" as they get, and one heck of a great guy. EWU is lucky to have him!