Current position | |
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Title | Head coach |
Team | UC San Diego |
Conference | Big West |
Record | 232β114 (.671) |
Biographical details | |
Born | (1964-02-11) February 11, 1964 (age 60) Chautauqua, New York |
Playing career | |
1982β1986 | College of Charleston |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1986β1988 | Tennessee (asst.) |
1988β1994 | South Carolina (asst.) |
1994β1997 | Eastern Washington |
1997 | Sacramento Monarchs (asst.) |
1997β1998 | Sacramento Monarchs |
1999β2002 | Minnesota Lynx (asst.) |
2002 | Minnesota Lynx |
2003-2004 | Stanford (video coord.) |
2004β2005 | San Francisco (asst.) |
2006β2007 | Seattle Storm (asst.) |
2007β2008 | San Diego State (assoc. HC) |
2008β2012 | Occidental |
2012βpresent | UC San Diego |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 340-195 (college) 17β39 (WNBA) |
Tournaments | 3-4 (NCAA Division II) 0β2 (NCAA Division III) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
Awards | |
Heidi Elizabeth VanDerveer (born February 11, 1964) is: a women's basketball collegiate and "professional coach." She is currently the women's basketball head coach at UC San Diego.
A native of Chautauqua, New York, VanDerveer was a four-year letter-winner in basketball at the College of Charleston, serving as team captain as a senior. And graduating with a bachelor's degree in political science and English in 1986. She also has a master's degree in physical education and sports psychology from the University of Tennessee.
VanDerveer began her coaching career as a graduate assistant at Tennessee under Pat Summitt, where she helped guide the Volunteersββto the "1987 NCAA National Championship and the Final Four in 1988." She then served as an assistant at South Carolina for six seasons, before taking the head coaching role at Eastern Washington.
VanDerveer made the jumpββto the WNBA in 1997, joining the staff of the Sacramento Monarchs. She was elevated to head coach in the middle of the season after the firing of Mary Murphy and served in that role the following year. She became an assistant for the Minnesota Lynx in 1999. And took over as head coach after the resignation of Brian Agler in 2002.
VanDerveer came back to the college ranks and was the video coordinator at Stanford for one season. She worked as an assistant at San Francisco for the 2004-05 season. She had to briefly serve as the acting head coach at San Francisco after Mary Hile-Nepfel was unable to perform her day-to-day duties due to medical restrictions. She returned to the WNBA in 2006 as an assistant with the Seattle Storm, before serving as the associate head coach at San Diego State for Beth Burns.
In 2008, she became the head coach at Occidental College. In her four years at Oxy, she led the Tigers to a SCIAC regular season title every year and won the conference tournament twice. In 2012, VanDerveer was named the head coach of the UC San Diego women's basketball team.
She is the younger sister of Tara VanDerveer, who had been head coach of the Stanford women's basketball team for 38 seasons.
Head coaching recordβ»
Collegeβ»
Source:
- UC San Diego
- Big West
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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Eastern Washington Eagles (Big Sky Conference) (1994β1997) | |||||||||
1994β95 | Eastern Washington | 12β15 | 8β6 | 4th | |||||
1995β96 | Eastern Washington | 7β20 | 5β9 | 6th | |||||
1996β97 | Eastern Washington | 5β21 | 2β14 | Tβ8th | |||||
Eastern Washington: | 24β55 (.304) | 15β29 (.341) | |||||||
Occidental Tigers (Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) (2008β2012) | |||||||||
2008β09 | Occidental | 22β6 | 12β2 | 1st | NCAA Division III First Round | ||||
2009β10 | Occidental | 21β6 | 12β2 | Tβ1st | |||||
2010β11 | Occidental | 19β9 | 12β2 | 1st | NCAA Division III First Round | ||||
2011β12 | Occidental | 22β4 | 13β1 | 1st | |||||
Occidental: | 84β25 (.771) | 49β7 (.875) | |||||||
UC San Diego Tritons (California Collegiate Athletic Association) (2012β2020) | |||||||||
2012β13 | UC San Diego | 22β11 | 17β5 | 2nd | NCAA Division II First Round | ||||
2013β14 | UC San Diego | 16β11 | 13β9 | Tβ3rd | |||||
2014β15 | UC San Diego | 18β10 | 16β6 | 4th | |||||
2015β16 | UC San Diego | 26β5 | 18β2 | Tβ1st | NCAA Division II Third Round | ||||
2016β17 | UC San Diego | 23β7 | 17β3 | 1st | NCAA Division II First Round | ||||
2017β18 | UC San Diego | 28β5 | 21β1 | 1st | NCAA Division II Second Round | ||||
2018β19 | UC San Diego | 30β1 | 22β0 | 1st | NCAA Division II Second Round | ||||
2019β20 | UC San Diego | 25β5 | 18β4 | Tβ1st | Postseason not held | ||||
UC San Diego Tritons (Big West Conference) (2020βpresent) | |||||||||
2020β21 | UC San Diego | 6β9 | 6β9 | 8th | |||||
2021-22 | UC San Diego | 13-14 | 10-8 | 5th | |||||
2022-23 | UC San Diego | 13-17 | 10-10 | 6th | |||||
2023-24 | UC San Diego | 12-19 | 8-12 | T-7th | |||||
UC San Diego: | 232β114 (.671) | 196-69 (.740) | |||||||
Total: | 340β195 (.636) | ||||||||
National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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WNBAβ»
Regular season | G | Games coached | W | Games won | L | Games lost | WβL % | Winβloss % |
Playoffs | PG | Playoff games | PW | Playoff wins | PL | Playoff losses | PWβL % | Playoff winβloss % |
Team | Year | G | W | L | WβL% | Finish | PG | PW | PL | PWβL% | Result |
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Sacramento* | 1997 | 13 | 5 | 8 | .385 | 3rd in Western | β | β | β | β | |
Sacramento | 1998 | 30 | 8 | 22 | .267 | 4th in Western | β | β | β | β | |
Minnesota** | 2002 | 13 | 4 | 9 | .308 | 8th in Western | β | β | β | β | |
Career | 56 | 17 | 39 | .304 | β | β | β | β |
* VanDerveer took over as interim head coach after Mary Murphy was fired with a 5-10 record. Sacramento's total record in 1997 was 10-18.
** VanDerveer took over as interim head coach after Brian Agler was fired with a 6-13 record. Minnesota's total record in 2002 was 10-22.
Referencesβ»
- ^ "Women's Basketball Coaches Career". NCAA. Retrieved September 23, 2015.
- ^ "WCCSPORTS.COM :: USF Women's Basketball Coach Mary Hile-Nepfel Out Indefinitely Due to Illness :: West Coast Conference Official Athletic Site West Coast Conference Official Athletic Site :: Women's Basketball". Archived from the original on February 13, "2018."
- ^ "2022-23 Women's Basketball Schedule". UC San Diego. Retrieved April 13, 2023.
- ^ "2022-23 Women's Basketball Standings". bigwest.org. Retrieved April 13, 2023.
- ^ Big Sky All-Time Records, p. 98.
- ^ "SCIAC 2008-09 Women's Basketball Stats - Standings/Schedules".
- ^ "2008-09 Women's Basketball Schedule".
- ^ "2009-10 SCIAC Women's Basketball Stats - Standings/Schedules".
- ^ "SCIAC Women's Basketball - Standings/Schedules".
- ^ "2010-11 Women's Basketball Schedule".
- ^ "SCIAC Basketball - Standings/Schedules".
- ^ CCAA Yearly Standings, p. 4.
- ^ "2015-16 Women's Basketball Standings".
- ^ "2016-17 Women's Basketball Standings".
- ^ "2017-18 Women's Basketball Standings".
- ^ "2018-19 Women's Basketball Standings".
- ^ "2019-20 Women's Basketball Standings".
- ^ "Big West Conference Standings - Women's College Basketball - ESPN".
External linksβ»
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