| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | UC San Diego |
| Conference | Big West |
| Record | 252–130 (.660) |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | (1964-02-11)February 11, 1964 (age 61) 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 | 360–209 (college) 17–39 (WNBA) |
| Tournaments | 3–4 (NCAA Division II) 0–2 (NCAA Division III) 0–1 (NCAA Division I) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| Awards | |
Heidi Elizabeth VanDerveer (born February 11, 1964)[1] is awomen's basketball collegiate and professional coach. She is currently the women's basketball head coach atUC San Diego.
A native ofChautauqua, New York, VanDerveer was a four-year letter-winner in basketball at theCollege of Charleston, serving as team captain as a senior and graduating with abachelor's degree inpolitical science andEnglish in 1986. She also has amaster's degree inphysical education andsports psychology from theUniversity of Tennessee.
VanDerveer began her coaching career as a graduate assistant atTennessee underPat 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 atSouth Carolina for six seasons, before taking the head coaching role atEastern Washington.
VanDerveer made the jump to theWNBA in 1997, joining the staff of theSacramento Monarchs. She was elevated to head coach in the middle of the season after the firing ofMary Murphy and served in that role the following year. She became an assistant for theMinnesota Lynx in 1999, and took over as head coach after the resignation ofBrian Agler in 2002.
VanDerveer came back to the college ranks and was the video coordinator atStanford for one season. She worked as an assistant atSan 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 theSeattle Storm, before serving as the associate head coach atSan Diego State forBeth Burns.
In 2008, she became the head coach atOccidental College. In her four years at Oxy, she led the Tigers to aSCIAC regular season title every year and won the conference tournament twice. In 2012, VanDerveer was named the head coach of theUC San Diego women's basketball team.
She is the younger sister ofTara VanDerveer, who had been head coach of theStanford women's basketball team for 38 seasons.
Source:
| 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 | |||||
| 2024–25 | UC San Diego | 20–16 | 13–7 | T–3rd | NCAA Division I First Four | ||||
| UC San Diego: | 252–130 (.660) | 210–77 (.732) | |||||||
| Total: | 360–210 (.632) | ||||||||
National champion Postseason invitational champion | |||||||||
| 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% | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 afterMary Murphy was fired with a 5–10 record. Sacramento's total record in 1997 was 10–18.
** VanDerveer took over as interim head coach afterBrian Agler was fired with a 6–13 record. Minnesota's total record in 2002 was 10–22.
