Tyler Shumate joined Northern Arizona University Athletics as the Assistant Athletic Director for Sports Performance in June 2021 and later promoted to Associate Assistant Athletic Director for Sports Performance. In his role, he will serve as the Head Strength Coach and oversee the Lumberjacks' Strength & Conditioning staff.

Shumate arrived in Flagstaff following more than three years as the Assistant Football Development and Performance Coach at Virginia, where he assisted in the development and implementation of daily training for the Cavaliers' football program. While at Virginia, he was also the Director of Data Science with his main duties centered around Catapult (GPS Technology).

Prior to Virginia, Shumate was a Sports Performance Graduate Assistant at Arizona State from May 2017-January 2018 where he worked with the football, men's tennis, women's gymnastics, volleyball, track, hockey, water polo and swimming & diving programs. It was his second stint in Tempe following a summer Sport Performance internship in 2016. In between his stints at Arizona State, Shumate was a Sport Performance Coach with F.A.S.T NWO.

Not only was Shumate an NCAA Division III Outdoor Championships qualifier in the hammer throw at Mount Union, he also served as a Student Strength and Conditioning Coach as an undergraduate, developing and implementing training protocols for his throws peers. Shumate graduated with a bachelor's degree in exercise science and a minor in coaching from Mount Union in May 2016 before earning his master's degree in higher education, intercollegiate athletic administration from Virginia in December 2020.

Shumate is CSCS, USAW-1, FMS-1, RPR-2 and CPR/AED/First-Aid certified.