Baseball Team Salutes John Sheppard on 30 Years of Coaching

During the Morristown Beard baseball banquet festivities on May 30, members of the Crimson baseball team and their families saluted Head Coach John Sheppard, who is celebrating his 30th season at MBS.

Through the years, Sheppard has amassed nearly 500 wins as head coach of the MBS baseball team. In 2016, he was selected as the High School Division III, Region 2 Coach of the Year by the American Baseball Coaches Association. Only eight High School Division III coaches from across the nation receive the award each year. He was also selected as the Daily Record's Coach of the Season for spring, 2016.

Coach Sheppard's teams have won the Morris County Championship (2016), five NJISAA Prep Championships (1996,1997,1999, 2007, 2008), three NJSIAA Private B State Sectional Championships (2005, 2010, 2021), the Colonial Hills Conference Championship (2008, 2009) and four NJAC Conference Championships (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015). He was awarded the Colonial Hills Conference Coach of the Year in 2008.

Coach Sheppard was elected to the New Jersey High School Coaches Hall of Fame in 2014.

Under his guidance, the MBS baseball team has been honored nationally for academics by the American Baseball Coaches Association for seven consecutive years.

Congratulations, Coach Shep!