Gary Waters

Teams coached: Kent State Golden Flashes, Rutgers Scarlet Knights, Cleveland State Vikings
Kent State record: 92-60 (.605)
Rutgers record: 79-75 (.513)
Cleveland State record: 194-172 (.530)
Overall record: 365-307 (.543)

Gary Steven Waters
Born August 15, 1951
Hometown: Highland Park, Michigan
Alma Mater: Ferris State University (BA, 1975)
Grew up in Michigan and played basketball at Division II Ferris State (Big Rapids, MI)
Started coaching in 1974 as an assistant coach at his alma mater, Ferris State, where he remained for the next 15 seasons
Joined Ben Braun’s coaching staff at Eastern Michigan in 1989, spending four seasons as an assistant and then three more as Braun’s associate HC
Became a head coach in 1996, replacing Dave Grube at Kent State; in four seasons at KSU, Waters’ teams won 92 games, went to two NCAA Tournaments and won the 2000-01 MAC regular season title
Spent five seasons as head coach at Rutgers, finishing with a .513 win percentage and going to 3 NITs (including a runner-up finish in 2004)
Has been the head coach at Cleveland State since 2006, where he has become the program’s all-time winningest head coach
Retired from coaching in March of 2017, following 11 seasons at CSU and a total of 21 seasons as a Division I head coach
Inducted into the Ferris State Athletic Hall of Fame in 2002 and the Kent State Varsity “K” Hall of Fame in 2006