:Sanders Shiver

{{Short description|American football player and coach (born 1955)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox NFL biography

| number = 54, 52, 96

| image = Shiver-Sanders-1977.jpg

| size =

| caption = Shiver in 1977

| position = Linebacker

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1955|2|14}}

| birth_place = Gadsden, South Carolina, U.S.

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 2

| weight_lbs = 227

| high_school = Lower Richland
(Hopkins, South Carolina)

| college = Carson–Newman

| draftyear = 1976

| draftround = 5

| draftpick = 134

| teams =

• Baltimore Colts ({{NFL Year|1976|1983}})
• Miami Dolphins ({{NFL Year|1984|1985}})

| pastcoaching =

• Bowie State (1986–1988)
  Assistant
• Bowie State (1989–1992)
  Head coach

| statlabel1 = Games played

| statvalue1 = 132

| statlabel2 = Starts

| statvalue2 = 53

| statlabel3 = Interceptions

| statvalue3 = 5

| statlabel4 = Sacks

| statvalue4 = 5.0

| statlabel5 = Fumble recoveries

| statvalue5 = 5

| pfr = ShivSa20

}}

Sanders Shiver (born February 14, 1955) is an American former football player and coach. A fifth round draft choice out of Carson–Newman College—now known as Carson–Newman University—in 1976, he professionally played ten years as a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) with the Baltimore Colts and Miami Dolphins.

Shiver served as the head football coach at Bowie State University in Bowie, Maryland from 1989 to 1992, compiling a record of 15–24–1. Shiver was an assistant coach at Bowie State from 1986 to 1988 under Dave Dolch, before succeeding him as head coach in December 1988 when Dolch left to become the head football coach at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa.{{cite news |last=McMullen |first=Paul |title=Shiver hopes to continue progress at Bowie State |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92221744/the-evening-sun/ |newspaper=The Evening Sun |location=Charlotte, North Carolina |date=December 9, 1988 |page=D1 |access-date=January 9, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}{{cite news |last=McMullen |first=Paul |title=Shiver hopes to keep Bowie State rolling (continued) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92221744/the-evening-sun/ |newspaper=The Evening Sun |location=Charlotte, North Carolina |date=December 9, 1988 |page=D6 |access-date=January 9, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}

Shiver currently works for the public school system of Prince George's County, Maryland, is married, and has four daughters.