Heidi VanDerveer

{{Infobox college coach

| name = Heidi VanDerveer

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| current_title = Head coach

| current_team = UC San Diego

| current_conference = Big West

| current_record = 252–130 ({{Winning percentage|252|130}})

| contract =

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1964|02|11}}

| birth_place = Chautauqua, New York

| death_date =

| death_place =

| alma_mater =

| player_years1 = 1982–1986

| player_team1 = College of Charleston

| coach_years13 = 2012–present

| coach_team13 = UC San Diego

| coach_years12 = 2008–2012

| coach_team12 = Occidental

| coach_years11 = 2007–2008

| coach_team11 = San Diego State (assoc. HC)

| coach_years10 = 2006–2007

| coach_team10 = Seattle Storm (asst.)

| coach_years9 = 2004–2005

| coach_team9 = San Francisco (asst.)

| coach_years8 = 2003–2004

| coach_team8 = Stanford (video coord.)

| coach_years7 = 2002

| coach_team7 = Minnesota Lynx

| coach_years6 = 1999–2002

| coach_team6 = Minnesota Lynx (asst.)

| coach_years5 = 1997–1998

| coach_team5 = Sacramento Monarchs

| coach_years4 = 1997

| coach_team4 = Sacramento Monarchs (asst.)

| coach_years3 = 1994–1997

| coach_team3 = Eastern Washington

| coach_years2 = 1988–1994

| coach_team2 = South Carolina (asst.)

| coach_years1 = 1986–1988

| coach_team1 = Tennessee (asst.)

| overall_record = 360–209 (college)
17–39 (WNBA)

| bowl_record =

| tournament_record = 3–4 (NCAA Division II)
0–2 (NCAA Division III)
0–1 (NCAA Division I)

| championships =

1× Big West tournament (2025)
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)

| coaching_records =

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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 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.wccsports.com/sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/122804aac.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180213135110/http://www.wccsports.com/sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/122804aac.html |archive-date=February 13, 2018 |title=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}} 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{{Cite web |title=2022-23 Women's Basketball Schedule |url=https://ucsdtritons.com/sports/womens-basketball/schedule |access-date=April 13, 2023 |website=UC San Diego |language=en}}
Big West{{Cite web |title=2022-23 Women's Basketball Standings |url=https://bigwest.org/standings.aspx?path=wbball |access-date=April 13, 2023 |website=bigwest.org |language=en}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Start

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|postseason=}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead

|name=Eastern Washington Eagles[http://www.bigskyconf.com/documents/2015/10/23/2015_Women_s_BBall_Media_Guide_Section_3.pdf Big Sky All-Time Records], p. 98.

|startyear=1994

|conference=Big Sky Conference

|endyear=1997

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 1994–95

| name = Eastern Washington

| overall = 12–15

| conference = 8–6

| confstanding =4th

| postseason =

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 1995–96

| name = Eastern Washington

| overall = 7–20

| conference =5–9

| confstanding =6th

| postseason =

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 1996–97

| name = Eastern Washington

| overall =5–21

| conference =2–14

| confstanding =T–8th

| postseason =

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal

| name = Eastern Washington

| overall = 24–55 ({{Winning percentage|24|55}})

| confrecord = 15–29 ({{Winning percentage|15|29}})

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead

|name=Occidental Tigers

|startyear=2008

|conference=Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

|endyear=2012

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =confboth

| season = 2008–09

| name = Occidental

| overall = 22–6

| conference = 12–2

| confstanding = 1st{{Cite web|url=http://thesciac.org/sports/wbkb/2008-09/stats/HTML/CONFSKED.HTM|title=SCIAC 2008-09 Women's Basketball Stats - Standings/Schedules}}

| postseason = NCAA Division III First Round{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxyathletics.com/sports/wbkb/2008-09/schedule|title = 2008-09 Women's Basketball Schedule}}

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = conference

| season = 2009–10

| name = Occidental

| overall = 21–6

| conference = 12–2

| confstanding = T–1st{{Cite web|url=http://thesciac.org/sports/wbkb/2009-10/stats/HTML/confsked.htm|title=2009-10 SCIAC Women's Basketball Stats - Standings/Schedules}}

| postseason =

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =confboth

| season = 2010–11

| name = Occidental

| overall = 19–9

| conference = 12–2

| confstanding = 1st{{Cite web|url=http://thesciac.org/sports/wbkb/2010-11/stats/confsked.htm|title = SCIAC Women's Basketball - Standings/Schedules}}

| postseason = NCAA Division III First Round{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxyathletics.com/sports/wbkb/2010-11/schedule|title = 2010-11 Women's Basketball Schedule}}

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =conference

| season = 2011–12

| name = Occidental

| overall = 22–4

| conference = 13–1

| confstanding = 1st{{Cite web|url=http://thesciac.org/sports/wbkb/2011-12/stats/confsked.htm|title = SCIAC Basketball - Standings/Schedules}}

| postseason =

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal

| name = Occidental

| overall = 84–25 ({{Winning percentage|84|25}})

| confrecord = 49–7 ({{Winning percentage|49|7}})

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead

|name=UC San Diego Tritons

|startyear=2012

|conference=California Collegiate Athletic Association

|endyear=2020

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = conference tournament

| season = 2012–13

| name = UC San Diego

| overall = 22–11

| conference = 17–5

| confstanding = 2nd[http://goccaa.org/documents/2015/12/31/WBB_History_1415.pdf CCAA Yearly Standings], p. 4.

| postseason = NCAA Division II First Round

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 2013–14

| name = UC San Diego

| overall = 16–11

| conference = 13–9

| confstanding =T–3rd

| postseason =

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 2014–15

| name = UC San Diego

| overall = 18–10

| conference = 16–6

| confstanding =4th

| postseason =

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = conference

| season = 2015–16

| name = UC San Diego

| overall = 26–5

| conference = 18–2

| confstanding = T–1st{{Cite web|url=http://goccaa.org/standings.aspx?standings=69&path=wbball|title=2015-16 Women's Basketball Standings}}

| postseason = NCAA Division II Third Round

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = conference

| season = 2016–17

| name = UC San Diego

| overall = 23–7

| conference = 17–3

| confstanding = 1st{{Cite web|url=http://goccaa.org/standings.aspx?standings=82&path=wbball|title=2016-17 Women's Basketball Standings}}

| postseason = NCAA Division II First Round

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = conference

| season = 2017–18

| name = UC San Diego

| overall = 28–5

| conference = 21–1

| confstanding = 1st{{Cite web|url=http://goccaa.org/standings.aspx?standings=88&path=wbball|title=2017-18 Women's Basketball Standings}}

| postseason = NCAA Division II Second Round

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = confboth

| season = 2018–19

| name = UC San Diego

| overall = 30–1

| conference = 22–0

| confstanding = 1st{{Cite web|url=http://goccaa.org/standings.aspx?standings=154&path=wbball|title = 2018-19 Women's Basketball Standings}}

| postseason = NCAA Division II Second Round

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = confboth

| season = 2019–20

| name = UC San Diego

| overall = 25–5

| conference = 18–4

| confstanding = T–1st{{Cite web|url=https://goccaa.org/standings.aspx?standings=162|title = 2019-20 Women's Basketball Standings}}

| postseason = Postseason not held

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead

|name=UC San Diego Tritons

|startyear=2020

|conference=Big West Conference

|endyear=

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 2020–21

| name = UC San Diego

| overall = 6–9

| conference = 6–9

| confstanding = 8th{{Cite web|url=http://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/conferences/standings/_/id/9/year/2021|title=Big West Conference Standings - Women's College Basketball - ESPN}}

| postseason =

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 2021–22

| name = UC San Diego

| overall = 13–14

| conference = 10–8

| confstanding = 5th

| postseason =

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 2022–23

| name = UC San Diego

| overall = 13–17

| conference = 10–10

| confstanding = 6th

| postseason =

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 2023–24

| name = UC San Diego

| overall = 12–19

| conference = 8–12

| confstanding = T-7th

| postseason =

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = conference tournament

| season = 2024–25

| name = UC San Diego

| overall = 20–16

| conference = 13–7

| confstanding = T–3rd

| postseason = NCAA Division I First Four

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal

| name = UC San Diego

| overall = 252–130 ({{Winning percentage|252|130}})

| confrecord = 210–77 ({{Winning percentage|210|77}})

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record End

|overall= 360–210 ({{Winning percentage|360|210}})

}}

=WNBA=

| align="left" |Sacramento*

| align="left" |1997

|13||5||8||{{Winning percentage|5|8}}|| 3rd in Western||—||—||—||{{Winning percentage|0|0}}||

| align="left" |Sacramento

| align="left" |1998

|30||8||22||{{Winning percentage|8|22}}|| 4th in Western ||—||—||—||{{Winning percentage|0|0}}||

| align="left" |Minnesota**

| align="left" |2002

|13||4||9||{{Winning percentage|4|9}}|| 8th in Western ||—||—||—||{{Winning percentage|0|0}}||

|-class="sortbottom"

| align="left" |Career

| || 56||17||39||{{Winning percentage|17|39}}|| ||—||—||—||{{Winning percentage|0|0}}||

* 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.

References

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{{cite web|title=Women's Basketball Coaches Career|url=http://web1.ncaa.org/stats/StatsSrv/careercoach|website=NCAA|access-date=September 23, 2015}}

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External links

[http://www.wnba.com/storm/roster/heidi_vanderveer.html WNBA Coach Profile]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20080412185424/http://www.oxy.edu/x6834.xml April 7, 2008 Occidental College press release]
[http://www.ucsdtritons.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=5800&ATCLID=205434772 Heidi VanDerveer Bio from USCD] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006152313/http://www.ucsdtritons.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=5800&ATCLID=205434772 |date=October 6, 2014 }}

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