Shane Ellias enters his first season as an assistant coach for the Lumberjacks. In addition, Ellias has been a volunteer assistant for the Mellen Granite Diggers high school baseball team located in Mellen, Wisconsin for the past 4 years. Ellias graduated Magna Cum Laude with a bachelor’s degree in Business Management with an emphasis in Small Business from Northland College in 2014. At Northland, he was a member of the Northland College baseball team where he was a pitcher. He was a two-time member of the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference All-Sportsmanship team and was a four year UMAC Academic All Conference award recipient. He played high school baseball for Mellen High School, located in Mellen, Wisconsin, earning All-Conference honorable mention his Junior year and First team All-Conference his Senior year. Ellias was a starting pitcher. When not pitching he played first base and third base. As a pitcher for the Granite Diggers, he never lost a conference game that he started and helped contribute to a conference championship, two regional championships, and two sectional appearances.
Coach May on Coach Ellias: The Team and staff at Northland are truly blessed to have someone of Coach Ellias’s character and academic accomplishment on our staff. It was my pleasure to have coached Shane during his senior year here and trust him to pass along his tireless work ethic on the field to our entire pitching staff. Shane will handle the monitoring of the pitching staff during their daily workouts as well as all game day pitching activities during the upcoming fall and spring seasons for the LumberJacks.
