The Montevallo Department of Athletics added Taylor Shields to its staff this year to help the department's compliance office and to oversee game day operations.

"I'm very happy to be a part of Montevallo, I am used to a small town family type atmosphere coming from UWA," remarked Shields.  "I like the history that this university has and I plan to make a big impact during my time here."

Shields joins Montevallo after spending a year and a half as a Sports Service Coordinator Intern for the Gulf South Conference.  During her time with the GSC, Shields was tasked with projects ranging in difficulty from basic research to planning and implementation.  She held responsibilities including leading an annual summer Student-Athlete Athletic Conference, conducting all logistical arrangements for the activities on and off the property (i.e. Community service projects, meals, social activities, transportation, etc.), creating a files for new coaches that enter the conference with all of the documents that they may need, and organizing and sending COVID self-test kits for over 300+ officials/umpires across three sports (Basketball, Softball, and Baseball).  While with the conference office Shields also served as a secondary official's coordinator for basketball, softball, and baseball, and as a secondary on the 2021 GSC Spring Sport Championships (Golf, Outdoor Track and Field, and Softball).  She also created a SAAC Monthly Speaker Series for fall and spring semesters, and served as a lead for the GSC Volleyball Spring Sport Championship.

Shields also holds experience with the Alabama High School Athletic Association starting in 2017 where she was a member of the Live Stats Crew for softball for four years.   While working for the AHSAA, she learned a softball/baseball oriented statistics program (iScore Sports) in under 24 hours and taught approximately 40 people how to operate it, and served as a statistician for the 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2021 AHSAA State Softball Tournament.

Shields has also served as the Head Tournament Director for the N2Hoops Invitational from May 2015 to November 2020. During her time under this role she held a multitude of responsibilities such as the logistics of teams for actual play during the tournament, coordinating the tournament by reserving officials, determining event budget, and organizing signage and concessions, managing content for tournament's social media and website by keeping rosters, schedules, and other information relevant and up to date, recruiting individuals for invitations into the tournament, actively pushing student-athlete's brands on social media, and hiring and managing a table stats crew for four years. 

Shields graduated from the University of West Alabama in 2018 with a bachelor's degree in sports management.  During her time at UWA she served as the manager for the universities softball program.  She was also a student member of the Commission of Sports Management Accreditation.