Peter Schaffer (born 1962) is an American sports agent/Lawyer who represents players in the National Football League, Major League Baseball, PGA Tour, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League. He is founder and owner of Authentic Athletix, a Colorado based sports agency, and is known for representing highly drafted players and marquis names He also owns the Authentic Performance Center, a world class athletic combine training facility in Denver.
Schaffer represents more than 100 athletes and celebrities, both active and retired, including Joe Thomas, Phil Taylor, Barry Sanders, Trevor Pryce, Joshua Cribbs, C. J. Anderson, Mario Edwards, Jr., and Hakeem Nicks. and PGA Golfers including two time PGA tour Winner Jonathan Kaye and Shane Bertsch.
Schaffer was born in 1962 in upstate New York. He attended Cortland High School and then The Hill School, in Pottstown, PA on athletic and academic scholarship, graduating in 1980 with honors. Schaffer then attended Franklin and Marshall College, graduating in 1984 with honors while playing both varsity lacrosse and hockey. In 1987 he graduated from Brooklyn Law School and in 1988 played professional lacrosse in the American Lacrosse League (1988) (ALL) for the Denver Rifles. His first job out of law school was with the Denver-based law firm of Weller, Freidrich, Ward and Andrews a litigation firm. Schaffer was also Appointed Chairman of the Denver Cable Television Commission.