Shanon Hays

Shanon Hays (born February 12, 1968) is an American softball coach for the Grand Canyon Antelopes.

Hays played college baseball and basketball at Lubbock Christian University where he lettered in both sports in 1987.

At Lubbock Christian, he went 50-15 as the basketball coach and led the program to the private school state championship game.

He inherited a 4-25 team and went 19-10 in his one season, earning Western Junior College Athletic Conference Coach of the Year honors.

[5] He left Abilene Christian in 1999 to join James Dickey's Texas Tech coaching staff for two seasons.

[7] Hays returned to the Division I ranks as an assistant coach at Houston, hired by Tom Penders.

[9] Texas Tech named Hays its seventh softball head coach on June 8, 2009.

[11] Hays took over as the head coach at Colorado Christian University on December 1, 2016, and spent three years leading the program.