Assistant Basketball Coach

Austin Shaver

Austin Shaver will partake in his first season as assistant basketball coach at Hampden-Sydney. Shaver joins the Tiger staff after serving one year as a graduate assistant at Virginia Commonwealth University under Rams' head basketball coach Anthony Grant.

Shaver, who hails from Hampden-Sydney, not only comes from a talented coaching pedigree, but also brings several years of valuable experience to the program. Although young, Shaver has been extremely busy amidst the coaching scene for the past two years, coaching everywhere from the high school level to AAU competition and the Division I ranks.

Shaver graduated in 2007 from the University of Virginia with a degree in psychology. During his senior year at UVA, Shaver was an assistant coach at perennial Virginia Independent Schools power Miller School while also serving as a head coach for the East Coast Fusion AAU program. Shaver has also worked with the touted Boo Williams AAU organization that consistently develops the top basketball talent in the state of Virginia.

This past year, Shaver joined the VCU SportsCenter graduate program and worked as a graduate assistant for the Colonial Athletic Association regular season champion Rams and Coach Grant. His eye for top-tier talent is sharp, as Shaver co-directed the 2008 VCU SportsCenter International Showcase that brought in players fresh from college as well as agents from professional teams looking to offer professional contracts.

Shaver currently resides in Hampden-Sydney.