Bio

Coach Brian Shirley enters his 10th year with the Peninsula College men’s basketball program, making him the senior member of that coaching staff. He was a big part of the success achieved by Mitch Freeman and Donald Rollman in their head coaching stints at Peninsula. Coach Shirley brings almost 20 years of high school coaching experience to the Peninsula staff. A former Port Angeles High School standout, he also played on a traveling club team for Peninsula College prior to the Pirates returning to the intercollegiate ranks in 1997. After graduating from Peninsula, he went on to get his bachelor’s degree from Western Washington University. Upon returning to Port Angeles he has been involved with the Port Angeles High School basketball programs working under multiple head coaches, including WIAA Hall of Famer Lee Sinnes where he specialized in teaching and coordinating defenses.