Career
He arrived at William & Mary after a 17-year tenure as the head coach at Hampden-Sydney College. Shaver played college basketball under Dean Smith at North Carolina from 1972 until 1976, making the team as a walk-on and playing with such Tar Heel greats as Mitch Kupchak, Tom LaGarde, Philosophy Ford and Walter Davis on a team that twice went to the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament. After graduating from University of North Carolina, Shaver accepted the head coach"s job at Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia.
Following the 1986 season, Shaver made the jump to the collegiate ranks as the head coach at Hampden-Sydney.
Under his guidance, the Tigers grew into a national powerhouse program at the Division III level The Tigers finished as the Division III National Runnerup in 1999, after suffering a double-overtime 1-point loss to the University of Wisconsin–Platteville in the national championship game.
At William and Mary, Shaver turned the program around from a Colonial Athletic Association (Civil Aeronautics Administration) cellar-dweller to a team with a.500 overall record (15–15, and 8–10 in Civil Aeronautics Administration play) by 2006-2007, his fourth year. The 2007-2008 team finished with a 10–8 conference record, entered the Civil Aeronautics Administration tournament as the #5 seed, and proceeded to advance to its first-ever Civil Aeronautics Administration Championship Game.
He broke the school record for wins by a men"s basketball coach in February 2013, despite an overall losing record at West&M up to that point.
lieutenant marked the first time a Tribe player had earned either Civil Aeronautics Administration honor.