Tom Shea
| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Special adviser to head coach |
| Team | Upper Iowa |
| Conference | NSIC |
| Biographical details | |
| Alma mater | Dakota State |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1979 | Dakota State (DC) |
| 1980 | Dakota State (OC) |
| 1981–1983 | Dakota State |
| 1985 | Peru State (OL) |
| 1986–1990 | Peru State |
| 1991–1996 | Mary |
| 1997–1998 | Central Arkansas (DC) |
| 1999–2000 | William Penn |
| 2003–2006 | Upper Iowa (DC) |
| 2007–2008 | Dakota State |
| 2009–2019 | Upper Iowa |
| 2020–present | Upper Iowa (special adviser to HC) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 146–156–3 |
| Tournaments | 7–4 (NAIA D-II playoffs) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 1 NAIA Division II (1990) 2 Tri-State Athletic (1989–1990) 2 NDCAC (1992, 1996) | |
| Awards | |
| NAIA Division II Coach of the Year (1990) | |
Tom Shea is an American college football coach. He is the special adviser to head football coach at Upper Iowa University in Fayette, Iowa, a position he had assumed following the 2019. Shea served as the head football coach at Dakota State University in Madison, South Dakota from 1981 to 1983 and again from 2007 to 2008, Peru State College in Peru, Nebraska from 1986 to 1990, the University of Mary in Bismarck, North Dakota from 1991 to 1996, William Penn University in Oskaloosa, Iowa from 1999 to 2000, and Upper Iowa from 2009 to 2019, compiling career head coaching record of 146–156–3. His 1990 Peru State Bobcats football team won the NAIA Football Division II National Championship.