Career Highlights
• 3-time NFCA West Region Coaching Staff of the Year (2026, 2025, 2024)
• 3 Women’s College World Series appearances (2026, 2025, 2024)
• Pac-12 Regular Season Champion (2024)
• Pac-12 Tournament Champion (2024)
Biography
Rob Schweyer concluded his third season as an assistant coach with the UCLA softball pitching staff in 2026.
During Schweyer's three seasons, the Bruins compiled a 151-35 record (.812) and advanced to the Women's College World Series each year. Schweyer was also part of three consecutive NFCA West Region Coaching Staff of the Year award-winning staffs from 2024-26
In 2026, UCLA’s pitching staff was led by ace Taylor Tinsley, who logged 235.0 of the team’s 381.1 innings. She finished her senior season tied for the national lead with 33 victories, earning first-team NFCA All-West Region and second-team All-Big Ten honors. The Bruin workhorse was also tabbed to the All-WCWS Tournament Team after pitching all 20.0 of UCLA’s innings in Oklahoma City. UCLA’s staff, which also featured Natalie Cable, Brynne Nally and Sydney Somerndike, finished the season with a 4.33 earned run average, 285 strikeouts and a 1.58 WHIP.
In 2025, Schweyer oversaw the Bruins’ three-pitcher rotation of Tinsley, Kaitlyn Terry and Addisen Fisher. UCLA’s pitching staff ranked third in the country in WHIP (1.07), fifth in shutouts (18) and 10th in earned run average (2.47). Tinsley earned the first NFCA All-America recognition of her career with a third-team selection after leading the Bruins with a 2.44 ERA and compiling a 15-6 record with 159 strikeouts. Terry recorded her second consecutive 20-win season 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.
In his first season with the program in 2024, Schweyer helped UCLA overcome a 3-4 start to finish 43-12 and return to the WCWS. 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 Bruins’ 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 emerged as rising stars in the circle, helping lead UCLA to the WCWS. In UCLA’s 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.
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 UCLA staff 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 hitless in 17 at-bats with runners in scoring position and pitched 15.2 scoreless innings, earning her NFCA National Pitcher of the Week honors.
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 total ISC World Tournament championships: Broken Bow (2001) and The Farm Tavern (2007). Schweyer has 30 career ISC wins and was most recently rostered on the Fargo Kegel Black Knights in 2024. Schweyer was be inducted into the ISC Hall of Fame in 2024.
Schweyer has traveled all over the globe in his softball expertise. He competed for the Canada Men’s Fastpitch National Team from 2000-04. From 2006-08, Schweyer was the pitching and strength and conditioning coach for the Chinese national softball team, which finished fifth in the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics.
Schweyer has also worked extensively as a private pitching 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.
Schweyer was born in Simcoe, Ontario, Canada, and attended University of Western Ontario before leaving to play professional hockey in the East Coast Hockey League (ECHL) from 1999-08 which overlapped with his professional softball career.
Schweyer and his wife, Janina, have two sons, Blake and Brody.
Schweyer’s Coaching Experience
2006-08 – Pitching and Strength and Conditioning Coach, Chinese National Team
2011-14 – Trainer, USA Preps Softball Academy
2014-Pres. – Trainer, RS Sports Training
2024-26 – Assistant Coach, UCLA