Softball
Schweyer, Rob
Rob Schweyer
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Alma Mater:
- University of Western Ontario, '99
- Year at UCLA:
- 3rd in 2026
- Email:
- rschweyer@athletics.ucla.edu
Career Highlights
โข 2-time NFCA West Region Coaching Staff of the Year (2025, 2024)
โข 2 Womenโs College World Series appearances (2025, 2024)
โข Pac-12 Regular Season Champion (2024)
โข Pac-12 Tournament Champion (2024)
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Biography
Rob Schweyer, one of the brightest and most innovative minds in training softball pitchers, enters his third year as an assistant coach at UCLA in 2026.
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Schweyer owns a 150-32 record (.881) and has helped UCLA to two Womenโs College World Series appearances in his three years as an assistant. The pitching guru is a two-time member NFCA West Region Coaching Staff of the Year since arriving in Westwood.
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In 2025, Schweyer oversaw the Bruinsโ three-armed arsenal of Taylor Tinsley, Kaitlyn Terry and Addisen Fisher. UCLAโs pitching staff was effective, ranking third in the country in WHIP (1.07), fifth in shutouts (18) and 10th in earned run average (2.47). Tinsley received the first NFCA All-America recognition of her career being named to the Third Team after leading the Bruins with a 2.44 ERA and compiling a 15-6 record with 159 strikeouts. Terry became a 20-game winner for a second straight year to open her collegiate career and finished the season with a team-best 172 punchouts. Fisher maintained a 2.59 ERA over 113.2 innings in her debut season and landed a spot on the Big Ten All-Freshman Team.
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Schweyer helped UCLA turn a 3-4 start into a 43-12 finish and return to the WCWS his first year with the program in 2024. The Bruins claimed the Pac-12 Conference regular season and tournament titles behind a 14-game winning streak stretching from late April through May. The performance earned Schweyer, who coached the Bruinsโ young pitching duo of freshman Kaitlyn Terry and sophomore Taylor Tinsley, his first NFCA West Region Coaching Staff of the Year accolade. Terry and Tinsley broke out as rising stars in the circle as they steered UCLA in its run to the WCWS. In UCLAโs eight NCAA Tournament games, Terry and Tinsley pitched two shutouts, allowed just one run in four different contests and totaled a 1.71 ERA over 49.0 innings. On the season, the two All-Pac-12 First Team selections pitched 329.1 of 355.0 total innings and recorded a combined 2.16 ERA with 327 strikeouts.
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Terry was awarded Pac-12 Freshman of the Year after leading the staff with a 21-3 record and 182.0 innings pitched and ranking second in the Pac-12 with six shutouts. Tinsley led the Bruinsโ arms with a 1.90 ERA and 166 strikeouts. The top pitching performance of the season came in a pivotal series at then-No. 5 Stanford on April 19-21. Together, Tinsley and Terry limited the Cardinal to just four runs over three games and ousted USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year NiJaree Canady twice to grab hold of first place in the Pac-12 standings. Tinsley held Stanford to 0-for-17 with RISP and pitched 15.2 scoreless innings, earning her NFCA National Pitcher of the Week honors.
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Schweyer has been an elite competitor in men's professional fastpitch the last 24 years, earning International Softball Congress (ISC) All-World First Team acclaim three times in 2000, 2001 and 2010 and Second Team his rookie year in 1999 as a member of the Waterloo Twins. He won two ISC World Tournament Championships with the Broken Bow Travelers in 2001 and another with The Farm Tavern in 2007. Schweyer has 30 career ISC wins and was most recently rostered on the Fargo Kegel Black Knights in 2024. On Aug. 15, 2023, it was announced Schweyer will be inducted into the ISC Hall of Fame.
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Schweyer has traveled all over the globe in his softball expertise. He competed for the Canada Menโs Fastpitch National Team from 2000-04. From 2006-08, Schweyer was the pitching and strength and conditioning coach for the Chinese Olympic softball team which placed fifth in the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics.
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He has worked the last 15 years as a personal instructor. From 2011-14, Schweyer was a trainer for USA Preps Softball Academy in Camarillo, Calif. Since then, he has worked for his own athletic training organization based in Hermosa Beach, RS Sports Training, where he helped develop UCLA softball pitchers Megan Faraimo and Brooke Yanez.
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Schweyer, 50 years old, was born in Simcoe, Ontario, Canada, and attended University of Western Ontario before leaving to play professional hockey in the East Coast Hockey League (EHL) from 1999-08 which overlapped with his professional softball career.
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Schweyer is married to his wife, Janina, and has two sons, Blake and Brody.
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Schweyerโs Coaching Experience
2006-08 โ Pitching and Strength and Conditioning Coach, Chinese National Team
2011-14 โ Trainer, USA Preps Softball Academy
2014-Pres. โ Trainer, RS Sports Training
2024-Pres. โ Assistant Coach, UCLA
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โข 2-time NFCA West Region Coaching Staff of the Year (2025, 2024)
โข 2 Womenโs College World Series appearances (2025, 2024)
โข Pac-12 Regular Season Champion (2024)
โข Pac-12 Tournament Champion (2024)
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Biography
Rob Schweyer, one of the brightest and most innovative minds in training softball pitchers, enters his third year as an assistant coach at UCLA in 2026.
ย
Schweyer owns a 150-32 record (.881) and has helped UCLA to two Womenโs College World Series appearances in his three years as an assistant. The pitching guru is a two-time member NFCA West Region Coaching Staff of the Year since arriving in Westwood.
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In 2025, Schweyer oversaw the Bruinsโ three-armed arsenal of Taylor Tinsley, Kaitlyn Terry and Addisen Fisher. UCLAโs pitching staff was effective, ranking third in the country in WHIP (1.07), fifth in shutouts (18) and 10th in earned run average (2.47). Tinsley received the first NFCA All-America recognition of her career being named to the Third Team after leading the Bruins with a 2.44 ERA and compiling a 15-6 record with 159 strikeouts. Terry became a 20-game winner for a second straight year to open her collegiate career and finished the season with a team-best 172 punchouts. Fisher maintained a 2.59 ERA over 113.2 innings in her debut season and landed a spot on the Big Ten All-Freshman Team.
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Schweyer helped UCLA turn a 3-4 start into a 43-12 finish and return to the WCWS his first year with the program in 2024. The Bruins claimed the Pac-12 Conference regular season and tournament titles behind a 14-game winning streak stretching from late April through May. The performance earned Schweyer, who coached the Bruinsโ young pitching duo of freshman Kaitlyn Terry and sophomore Taylor Tinsley, his first NFCA West Region Coaching Staff of the Year accolade. Terry and Tinsley broke out as rising stars in the circle as they steered UCLA in its run to the WCWS. In UCLAโs eight NCAA Tournament games, Terry and Tinsley pitched two shutouts, allowed just one run in four different contests and totaled a 1.71 ERA over 49.0 innings. On the season, the two All-Pac-12 First Team selections pitched 329.1 of 355.0 total innings and recorded a combined 2.16 ERA with 327 strikeouts.
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Terry was awarded Pac-12 Freshman of the Year after leading the staff with a 21-3 record and 182.0 innings pitched and ranking second in the Pac-12 with six shutouts. Tinsley led the Bruinsโ arms with a 1.90 ERA and 166 strikeouts. The top pitching performance of the season came in a pivotal series at then-No. 5 Stanford on April 19-21. Together, Tinsley and Terry limited the Cardinal to just four runs over three games and ousted USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year NiJaree Canady twice to grab hold of first place in the Pac-12 standings. Tinsley held Stanford to 0-for-17 with RISP and pitched 15.2 scoreless innings, earning her NFCA National Pitcher of the Week honors.
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Schweyer has been an elite competitor in men's professional fastpitch the last 24 years, earning International Softball Congress (ISC) All-World First Team acclaim three times in 2000, 2001 and 2010 and Second Team his rookie year in 1999 as a member of the Waterloo Twins. He won two ISC World Tournament Championships with the Broken Bow Travelers in 2001 and another with The Farm Tavern in 2007. Schweyer has 30 career ISC wins and was most recently rostered on the Fargo Kegel Black Knights in 2024. On Aug. 15, 2023, it was announced Schweyer will be inducted into the ISC Hall of Fame.
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Schweyer has traveled all over the globe in his softball expertise. He competed for the Canada Menโs Fastpitch National Team from 2000-04. From 2006-08, Schweyer was the pitching and strength and conditioning coach for the Chinese Olympic softball team which placed fifth in the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics.
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He has worked the last 15 years as a personal instructor. From 2011-14, Schweyer was a trainer for USA Preps Softball Academy in Camarillo, Calif. Since then, he has worked for his own athletic training organization based in Hermosa Beach, RS Sports Training, where he helped develop UCLA softball pitchers Megan Faraimo and Brooke Yanez.
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Schweyer, 50 years old, was born in Simcoe, Ontario, Canada, and attended University of Western Ontario before leaving to play professional hockey in the East Coast Hockey League (EHL) from 1999-08 which overlapped with his professional softball career.
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Schweyer is married to his wife, Janina, and has two sons, Blake and Brody.
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Schweyerโs Coaching Experience
2006-08 โ Pitching and Strength and Conditioning Coach, Chinese National Team
2011-14 โ Trainer, USA Preps Softball Academy
2014-Pres. โ Trainer, RS Sports Training
2024-Pres. โ Assistant Coach, UCLA
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UCLA Softball Postgame - Coach Inouye-Perez & Players, vs. Tennessee (June 1, 2025)
Sunday, June 01
UCLA Softball Postgame - Coach Inouye-Perez & Players, vs. Texas Tech (May 31, 2025)
Saturday, May 31
Highlights - UCLA Softball vs. Oregon (May 29, 2025)
Thursday, May 29
UCLA Softball Postgame - Coach Inouye-Perez & Players, vs. Oregon (May 29, 2025)
Thursday, May 29
