Tony Shaver

Tony Shaver (born January 28, 1954)

Teams coached: Hampden-Sydney Tigers, William & Mary Tribe
Hampden-Sydney record^: 358-121 (.747)
William & Mary record: 226-268 (.457)
Overall record^: 584-389 (.600)

Career Accomplishments:

• NCAA National Championships:  0  
• NCAA Tournament Appearances:  0  
• NIT Championships:  0  
• NIT Appearances:  2  (2010, 2015)
• CAA Regular Season Champion:  1  (2015)
• ODAC (Div III) Regular Season Champion:  8  (1989, 1992, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003)
• NCAA Division III National Championships:  0  (Runner-up in 1999)
• NCAA Division III Tournament Appearances:  11  (1989, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003)
• NCAA Division III Tournament Final Four:  2  (1999, 2003)

Awards:

• CAA Coach of the Year:  2  (2008, 2010)

Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):

2003-2019	William & Mary
1986-2003	Hampden-Sydney

Tony Shaver Facts

• Anthony Shaver
• Born January 28, 1954
• Hometown: High Point, North Carolina
• Alma Mater: University of North Carolina (BA, 1976)
• The NC-native played college basketball for the Tar Heels under legendary head coach Dean Smith
• Started his coaching career in 1976, coaching the boy’s team at Episcopal HS in Alexandria, VA for ten years
  • Won 73% of his games and was named Virginia Independent Schools Coach of the Year in his final season (1986)
• Became the head coach at Division III Hampden-Sydney (VA) in 1986, a position he held for seventeen years
  • Won 358 games (.747 win%) during his tenure and led the Tigers to the D-III NCAA Tournament eleven times
    • Twice reached the Final Four, including a NCAA Runner-Up finish in 1999 via a 2OT loss to defending champion Wisconsin-Platteville (coached by Bo Ryan)
• Made the jump to Division I in 2003 when he was hired as the head coach at William & Mary in Williamsburg, VA
  • Lead the Tribe to two NITs, but failed to reach the NCAA Tournament (despite winning a share of the 2015 CAA title)
  • William & Mary is one of the few remaining original Division I programs that has yet to reach the Big Dance
    • Came within one basket of a Tournament berth in 2014, losing by one point to Delaware in the CAA Tournament final
  • Shaver fostered a culture of academic success within the program, regularly achieving perfect APR scores; W&M is the second oldest institution for higher learning in the United States (behind Harvard)
  • In March 2019, Shaver was fired after going 226-268 in fifteen seasons with the Tribe
• Along with his wife, Ann, has three sons
  • One son, Austin, was an assistant on his father’s coaching staff

Tony Shaver Coaching Tree

• Griff Aldrich (Longwood)
• Jamion Christian (George Washington, Siena, Mount St. Mary’s)
• Ben Wilkins (Seton Hill)

 

^ overall record includes head coaching positions at the NCAA Division I, Division II and Division III levels