Swen Erick Nater (born January 14, 1950) is a Dutch former professional basketball player.

He played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins, winning two National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) titles.

After three years it appeared they would remain in the Netherlands until a television show, It Could Be You (a forerunner to This Is Your Life), discovered the situation and brought the two siblings to America to be reunited—on TV—with the rest of the family.

Under Chargers head coach Don Johnson,[3] he played little as a freshman, but was a Community College All-American as a sophomore.

[13] Before the 1983–84 season, Nater was traded by the Clippers along with a just-drafted Byron Scott to the Los Angeles Lakers for Norm Nixon, Eddie Jordan, and a 1986 second-round draft pick (which would eventually be dealt to the Phoenix Suns and become Jeff Hornacek).

[14] Nater and Scott helped lead the Lakers to the NBA Finals that year, but the next season the team did not offer him a guaranteed contract.

The next season, he initially accepted an offer from Barcelona in the Spanish League, but ultimately he changed his mind and decided to retire.

He built the basketball program at Christian Heritage College in San Diego, California, and coached the team from 1985 to 1995.

[15] He left the position because it "was high on work and low on pay.” He was living in El Cajon, California, where his two daughters were born and raised.

[16] Nater later lived in Enumclaw, Washington,[17] where he went to work for Costco, for whom he was a sporting goods assistant buyer.