Tyler Shepherd joined the Pioneers coaching staff as an assistant in the summer of 2012 and enters his ninth season in 2020-21.
Shepherd helped Denver to four top-five finishes in 2020, while earning seven individual alpine wins. Storm Klomhaus and Tobias Kogler claimed National Championships in the giant slalom under Shepherd.
Klomhaus and Kogler earned First Team All-American honors in the giant slalom, along with Simon Fournier who finished fifth at NCAAs. Amelia Smart took seventh in the giant slalom at the NCAA Championships to earn Second Team All-American honors.
In 2018, he was named the Alpine Coach of the Year for RMISA.
He helped the Pioneers capture their 24th NCAA title in 2018. Overall, he has helped the University of Denver to three NCAA Championships.
Prior to coming to Denver, Shepherd served as the alpine head coach at the University of New Mexico.
His coaching career started off in 2007 as the ski cross head coach for the United States Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA). Shepherd led the team in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver in 2010. The USSA dropped the ski cross program, allowing Shepherd to return to the NCAA, taking the alpine head coaching position at UNM in the fall of 2010.
Shepherd, a member of the U.S. National Team from 1998-2001, skied collegiately at University of Colorado from 2001-03. In 2002 he raced to First Team All-American honors in the slalom. Shepherd continued skiing after graduation in the skiercross, competing in the X-Games and on the World Cup circuit.
Shepherd received his B.S. in Advertising in 2005 from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Colorado.
