UC San Diego

Rich Shayewitz is in his season season on the UC San Diego coaching staff in 2026-27 after joining the Tritons in 2025-26 under then-first yesr head coach Clint Allard. In his first season in La Jolla, Shayewitz helped lead the Tritons to a 23-win season, the program's best-ever Division I start, and a championship in the ESPN Events Invitational. Shayewitz joined the Tritons' staff after spending four seasons as the head coach at Division II Sonoma State. In 2024-25, the Seawolves posted a 12-16 mark in the program's final season. In 2022-23, Shayewitz coached sophomore phenom Jaylen Wells, the CCAA Player of the Year. 

Shayewitz became the second former head coach Allard has hired.

In 2020, Rich Shayewitz was appointed interim Director of Basketball making him the head coach for both the men and the women's programs at Sonoma State. With no athletic competition during the 2020-21 academic year, Shayewitz led both programs during the 2021-22 season and took on his first season at the helm of the men's program and his fifth and final year with the women's program. 

Shayewitz came to Sonoma State University as a undergraduate in the fall of 1995 and obtained a Bachelor's degree in Business Marketing in the spring of 2000.  During that time, he volunteered as a student assistant coach on the SSU men's basketball team under head coach Pat Fuscaldo and has been on the sidelines ever since. He was later promoted to Associate Head Coach just prior to the 2006-07 season.

In his 19 seasons with the men's team, Shayewitz was instrumental in assisting the program to four NCAA tournament appearances, including this past season in which the Seawolves were crowned the NCAA Division II statistical champion in scoring defense and field goal percentage defense, holding opponents to a nation's-best 57.8 points per game. He was also credited for his help in the team's 2005-06 CCAA Championship run and six CCAA tournament appearances since.

In addition to his efforts on the sideline, Shayewitz has also served as the Academic and Eligibility Student-Athlete Advisor for the SSU athletic department years prior.  He also holds two Master's degrees; one in Health, Physical Education and Recreation from Saint Mary's College in Moraga, and another in Business from Sonoma State.  

Shayewitz was the 8th head coach in the history of the Sonoma State men's basketball program.