Steve Schafer is the Director of Basketball at College Athlete Advantage. He was previously the head men’s basketball coach at Augustana College (IL). Before Augustana Steve was the head coach for six years at Benedictine University Mesa (AZ) where he also served as the Director of Athletics (2014-2020). He started the BenUMesa athletics department from scratch in 2014 and took the department from 60 student-athletes and eight club sports in 2014-15 to its present number of 325 student-athletes and 13 intercollegiate varsity programs.
Prior to starting the athletics program at Benedictine-Mesa, Schafer was the head men’s basketball coach at Fontbonne University in St. Louis, Missouri (2011-2014). He also spent two years as the assistant men’s basketball coach/athletic recruiting coordinator at the Benedictine campus in Lisle, Illinois from 2009-11. Steve also served as an assistant coach at both North Park University (2004-09) and Wayne State College (2001-04).
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