Coach Sheley was a fixture beside the Hastings Tiger wrestling mat for 30 years. His teams won 180 dual matches and sent 207 individual wrestlers to the state tournament. Eighty-two of those wrestlers medaled, and the Tigers were in the state’s top ten fourteen times during Coach Sheely’s tenure. His 1988 team won the Class A state championship. His teams finished champion or runner-up in districts eight times and in the top two of the conference twelve times. Three of his wrestlers earned All-American honors in college. In 1997 he was inducted to the National Scholastic Wrestling Coaches Association Hall of Fame.