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Shannon Singletary, DPT
Shannon Singletary, DPT
  • Title:
    Executive Associate A.D.
  • E-mail:
  • Phone:
    662-915-1842
  • Alma Mater:
    Ole Miss (1995), UMMC (1997, 2004)
Shannon Singletary joined Ole Miss Athletics in 2004 and currently serves as Executive Associate Athletics Director for internal operations. 

Singletary oversees the business office, compliance, and academic services, in addition to directing the health and sports performance department. Singletary serves as sport administrator for Track & Field, Cross Country, and Softball.

His previous senior staff responsibilities include sport administration for cross country, track & field, softball and oversight of health & sports performance, which includes sports medicine, strength & conditioning, sport nutrition, sport psychology, and physical therapy. 

He is responsible for the athletic department’s Grill at 1810 which is a full-service dining facility. In 2013 he also took on a lead role in an academic research partnership as co-director of the Center of Health & Sports Performance. 

He has served on campus committees including the Chancellor’s university standing committee on accessibility and the COVID task force. He serves as the liaison for athletics with several partnerships between athletics and various departments on campus such as the Division of Student Life, the Department of Applied Sciences and Student & Employee Health. He holds an academic title of Adjunct Clinical Instructor in Health, Exercise Science and Recreation Management. Singletary was appointed by the governor of Mississippi served 11 years on the Mississippi Board of Physical Therapy Licensure. His roles on the board have included two years as President and various subcommittee appointments.

He previously held the title of Coordinator of Sports Medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center prior to arriving at Ole Miss in 2004. There he was responsible for sports medicine outreach services as well as serving patients of the medical center’s physical therapy department. It is there that he published multiple articles and book chapters on topics such as sport rehabilitation and hand therapy. He later went on to obtain other administrative and budget experience while overseeing rehabilitation services for Nissan Motor Company in Canton, Mississippi in 2003.

Singletary’s education includes a B.S. in Exercise Science, a B.S. in Physical Therapy, and a Doctorate in Physical Therapy all from the University of Mississippi. In 1991, he began working for the athletics department as a student athletic trainer serving all four years of his undergraduate degree program.

He currently holds certifications and licensure in Athletic Training, Physical Therapy and Strength & Conditioning. He speaks at national conferences, state conferences and to civic groups and has found time to audit such classes as Sports Law within the University of Mississippi School of Law.

Singletary and his wife, Molly, have three children, Shelby, Matthew and Jane Anne. Molly Singletary M.D,. is a pediatrician, where she is a partner in Oxford Pediatric Group in Oxford, MS.
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