Shawn Faust enters his first season as an assistant coach for Pepperdine women's basketball in the 2023-24 season.
Boasting several decades of personal training experience, Shawn Faust comes to Malibu after spending the past 13 years founding iHandle Basketball, a skill and game enhancement training service. Faust has served in a variety of consulting, personal training and development roles across all levels of basketball, ranging from high school and grassroots teams, to NCAA programs and all the way up to professional clients from the NBA, WNBA and a myriad of overseas leagues.
Based out of Lakeland, Fla., Faust has served as a player development coach for recent NBA clients including Killian Hayes, Dwayne Bacon, Tony Bradley and Devonte Graham. Faust also serves as a player development consultant for several NBA teams, as well as his individual clients. Internationally, he has also run player development camps overseas for the Icelandic Federation Basketball Camps, the NBA Dongguan Basketball School, based in China, and the Glo-Ball Basketball Academy in Denmark, amongst others.
Collegiately, Faust has eight years of experience working as a consultant for four different teams. His most recent collegiate consulting endeavors include serving as a player development consultant for the University of Charleston’s women’s team, Polk State College’s men’s team and both basketball teams at Southeastern University, an NAIA school, this past season.
Prior to his time as a player development coach, Faust played basketball in over 90 countries worldwide as a member of the Harlem Globetrotter/Washington Generals organization from 2004-14. He played professionally in Switzerland, France, and Brazil after playing at the University of West Florida, a Division II institution in the Gulf South Conference. Faust started his collegiate career at Bevill State Community Colleges and Wallace Community College, where he was a two-time NJCAA All-Conference selection, before graduating from the University of West Florida with a bachelor’s degree in psychology in 2003.
He and his wife Tiffany have one son, Nash.
