Coach Shotwell began as an assistant coach to the Level III program at Lakewood High School in 2013. Along with growing in the baseball program at Lakewood, Coach Shotwell has also coached football and began his teaching career at Lakewood. Coach Shotwell also heads the off season development program of our baseball players. Coach Shotwell has extended his knowledge of sports performance and development to other various programs at Lakewood. Coach Shotwell has a background, knowledge and passion for increasing the performance of not only the baseball players at Lakewood, but any and every athlete of Lakewood High School.

Coach Shotwell is a product of both the Jeffco baseball community along with the Colorado club baseball community. Coach Shotwell grew up in Ken Caryl and always traces his foundations as a student to his experiences at Stony Creek Elementary, Deer Creek Middle School, and Chatfield Senior High School. After playing through the South Jeffco Junior Baseball Association, Coach Shotwell continued his baseball career with both Chatfield and Slammers baseball, playing for Mark Holzemer, Clint Zavaras, Darryl Milne, Bill Martin, Billy Cassidy and Jordan Berge throughout his career with Slammers. Coach Shotwell had received a baseball and academic scholarship to attend Ottawa University. Coach Shotwell chose the opportunity to walk on and play baseball at Cochise College in Douglas, AZ along with fellow Lakewood coach, Jarret Belloni. Coach Shotwell chose to walk away from the game of baseball and finish his college career at Colorado State University in Fort Collins where he received his bachelors of science degree in Health and Exercise Science. Upon graduating from CSU, Coach Shotwell began his first year of coaching with Coach Belloni in the Spring of 2013 and is currently in his 5th year as a PE teacher at Lakewood High School.