Heidi VanDerveer

Heidi VanDerveer
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	UC San Diego
Conference	Big West
Record	232–114 (.671)
Biographical details
Born	February 11, 1964 (age 60); Chautauqua, New York
Playing career
1982–1986	College of Charleston
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1986–1988	Tennessee (asst.)
1988–1994	South Carolina (asst.)
1994–1997	Eastern Washington
1997	Sacramento Monarchs (asst.)
1997–1998	Sacramento Monarchs
1999–2002	Minnesota Lynx (asst.)
2002	Minnesota Lynx
2003-2004	Stanford (video coord.)
2004–2005	San Francisco (asst.)
2006–2007	Seattle Storm (asst.)
2007–2008	San Diego State (assoc. HC)
2008–2012	Occidental
2012–present	UC San Diego
Head coaching record
Overall	340-195 (college); 17–39 (WNBA)
Tournaments	3-4 (NCAA Division II); 0–2 (NCAA Division III)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
	3× CCAA Tournament (2013, 2019, 2020); 5× CCAA regular season (2016-20); 2× SCIAC Tournament (2009, 2011); 4× SCIAC regular season (2009-12);
Awards
	4× CCAA Coach of the Year (2016-19); WBCA Division II District/Region Coach of the Year (2019);

Heidi Elizabeth VanDerveer (born February 11, 1964)^[1] 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 Volunteers to 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 jump to 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.^[2] 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 record

College

Source:

UC San Diego^[3]
Big West^[4]

Statistics overview
Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Eastern Washington Eagles^[5] (Big Sky Conference) (1994–1997)
1994–95	Eastern Washington	12–15	8–6	4th
1995–96	Eastern Washington	7–20	5–9	6th
1996–97	Eastern Washington	5–21	2–14	T–8th
Eastern Washington:		24–55 (.304)	15–29 (.341)
Occidental Tigers (Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) (2008–2012)
2008–09	Occidental	22–6	12–2	1st^[6]	NCAA Division III First Round^[7]
2009–10	Occidental	21–6	12–2	T–1st^[8]
2010–11	Occidental	19–9	12–2	1st^[9]	NCAA Division III First Round^[10]
2011–12	Occidental	22–4	13–1	1st^[11]
Occidental:		84–25 (.771)	49–7 (.875)
UC San Diego Tritons (California Collegiate Athletic Association) (2012–2020)
2012–13	UC San Diego	22–11	17–5	2nd^[12]	NCAA Division II First Round
2013–14	UC San Diego	16–11	13–9	T–3rd^[12]
2014–15	UC San Diego	18–10	16–6	4th
2015–16	UC San Diego	26–5	18–2	T–1st^[13]	NCAA Division II Third Round
2016–17	UC San Diego	23–7	17–3	1st^[14]	NCAA Division II First Round
2017–18	UC San Diego	28–5	21–1	1st^[15]	NCAA Division II Second Round
2018–19	UC San Diego	30–1	22–0	1st^[16]	NCAA Division II Second Round
2019–20	UC San Diego	25–5	18–4	T–1st^[17]	Postseason not held
UC San Diego Tritons (Big West Conference) (2020–present)
2020–21	UC San Diego	6–9	6–9	8th^[18]
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:		232–114 (.671)	196-69 (.740)
Total:		340–195 (.636)
National champion Postseason invitational champion Conference regular season champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Division regular season champion Division regular season and conference tournament champion Conference tournament champion

WNBA

Legend
Regular season	G	Games coached	W	Games won	L	Games lost	W–L %	Win–loss %
Playoffs	PG	Playoff games	PW	Playoff wins	PL	Playoff losses	PW–L %	Playoff win–loss %


Team	Year	G	W	L	W–L%	Finish	PG	PW	PL	PW–L%
Sacramento*	1997	13	5	8	.385	3rd in Western	—	—	—	–
Sacramento	1998	30	8	22	.267	4th in Western	—	—	—	–
Minnesota**	2002	13	4	9	.308	8th in Western	—	—	—	–
Career		56	17	39	.304		—	—	—	–

* 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.