Career Highlights
Track & Field
- Spent three seasons as the women's track and field head coach
- Won MWC Indoor and Outdoor Championships during first season as head coach in 2011
- Named MWC Indoor and Outdoor Coach of the Year as well as Mountain Region Coach of the Year in 2011
- Coached two national chamipions and nine All-Americans in 2011 and 2012
Cross Country
- 36 seasons as cross country head coach
- Under his direction, the women's team has finished in the top 10, 19 times and in the top 20, 22 times
- Shane has coached six Olympians and 30 All-American cross country runners (51 All-America citations total)
- Coached the first women's team in BYU history to win a national championship (1997)
- Won four cross country national championships (1997, 1999, 2001 and 2002)
- Won 24 conference championships
- Named Intermountain Athletic Conference (IAC) Coach of the Year twice
- Named High Country Athletic Conference (HCAC) Coach of the Year four times
- Named District VII Coach of the Year nine times
- Named Western Athletic Conference (WAC) Coach of the Year six times
- Named Mountain West Conference (MWC) Coach of the Year four times
- Named West Coach Conference (WCC) Coach the Year once
- As part of the Mountain West Conference (1999-2011), his team won eight of eleven conference titles.
- Named NCAA Coach of the Year three times (1997, 2000 and 2001)
- Won 16 region championships, most recently in 2003
- Took sixth at the AIAW National Championships in his first season as head coach
- 2014 West Coast Conference Coach of the Year
Coaching Experience
- BYU Track & Field Head Coach (2011-2013)
- BYU Cross Country Head Coach (1980-Present)
- USA Women's Junior National Track and Field Head Coach (2008-Beijing)
- USA Women's National Cross Country Head Coach (1999)
- Provo High School Track and Cross Country Head Coach (1974-1980)
Service
- Served as the president of the Utah High School Track Coaches Association
- Member and vice president of the Utah Sports Council of Utah High School Coaches
Education
- BYU (1970, B.A.- Physical Education; 1972, M.A- Physical Education)
Running Career
- Four-year letter winner on the BYU track and cross country teams (1966-1970)
Personal/Family
- Wife: Karey
- Patrick and Karey are the parents of seven children
- Son, Chris Shane, is the assistant coach of the cross country and track programs at the University of San Francisco