Dennis Shaver

rdf:langString Dennis Shaver

rdf:langString Dennis Shaver

rdf:langString Dennis Shaver

rdf:langString • NCAA Women's Outdoor Coach of the Year

rdf:langString • National Junior College Coach of the Year,

rdf:langString • SEC Women's Coach of the Year - 7 times

rdf:langString • Kansas Collegiate Coach of the Year - 6 times

rdf:langString Indoor & Outdoor - 7 times

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rdf:langString • NCAA Women's Outdoor

rdf:langString • NJCAA Women's Cross Country

rdf:langString • NJCAA Women's Indoor

rdf:langString • NJCAA Women's Outdoor

rdf:langString • SEC Women's Indoor

rdf:langString • SEC Women's Outdoor

rdf:langString Dennis Shaver is the current track and field coach at Louisiana State University. Shaver came to LSU in 1995 as an assistant coach. Since his arrival, he has coached 22 Olympians, 6 Olympic medalists, 411 All-Americans, 39 individual National Champions, 49 NCAA event titles and 19 national championship relay teams. He began his college coaching career at Hutchinson Community College in Hutchinson, Kansas, in 1981 as an assistant football and track coach. In 1982, he became the head coach for the track team at Hutchinson Community College. He left Hutchinson in 1985 to become the head track coach at Barton Community College, where he had tremendous success. During his last year there, he became the first coach to ever win the NJCAA "triple crown" winning the cross-country, indoor, and outdoor titles. After Barton, Shaver became an assistant at Auburn University for the next three years before arriving in Baton Rouge in 1995 as an assistant coach. In 2004, he replaced Pat Henry as head track and field coach.