Shaun Bonds is a native of Greensboro, Alabama and graduated from Greensboro High School and the University of Alabama.

Bonds began his coaching career back in 1976 at Wacoochee Junior High School. In 1986 he returned home by accepting the head coaching job at Greensboro.

In four seasons at his alma mater, Bonds went 36-12 with an undefeated regular season in 1989. He spent one season at Valley High School before coming back to west Alabama at Demopolis in 1991.

His three teams at Demopolis went 17-16 with two playoff appearances. In 1994 he moved back east to Smiths Station High School where he remained for eight years. His teams finished 55-35 at Smiths Station making the playoffs the first four years he was there.

His 1996 team finished 10-0 in the regular season before falling in the third round of the playoffs. Following the 2001 season, Coach Bonds took over the football program at Southern Academy.

For the next eleven years, Coach Bonds teams won 95 games and lost only 36. He won four consecutive AISA State Championships between 2004-2007. Those teams finished a combined 49-2.

In 2013 after resigning his position at Southern Academy, Bonds took an assistant coaching position at Morgan Academy.

Coach Bonds overall record is 213-103 in 27 years as a head football coach in Alabama. His playoff record is 31-15 and his region record is 84-39. His teams won a combined thirteen area and region titles. Eleven of his teams won at least ten games in a season.

Coach Bonds was inducted into the Smiths Station Hall of Fame in 2004. He was named The Tuscaloosa News West Alabama Coach of the Year twice, the Class 4A state Coach of the Year once, and has been defensive coordinator in the Alabama-Mississippi High School All-Star Game.