Gary Waters (born August 15, 1951)

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)

Career Accomplishments:

• NCAA National Championships:  0
• NCAA Tournament Appearances:  3  (1999, 2001, 2009)
• NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen:  0
• NIT Championships:  0  (Runner-up in 2004)
• NIT Appearances:  7  (2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2012)
• CIT Appearances:  2  (2014, 2015)
• Horizon League Regular Season Champion:  1  (2011)
• MAC Regular Season Champion:  1  (2001)
• Horizon League Tournament Champion:  1  (2009)
• MAC Tournament Champion:  2  (1999, 2001)

Awards:

• Horizon League Coach of the Year:  1  (2008)
• MAC Coach of the Year:  2  (1999, 2000)

Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):

2006-2017	Cleveland State
2001-2006	Rutgers
1996-2001	Kent State
1993-1996	Eastern Michigan (assoc. HC)
1989-1993	Eastern Michigan (asst)
1974-1989	Ferris State (asst)

Gary Waters Facts

• 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 head coach
• 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 the head coach at Rutgers, finishing with a .513 winning 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
• Along with his wife, Bernadette, has one son, one daughter and eight grandchildren

Gary Waters Coaching Tree

• Jayson Gee (Longwood)
• Fred Hill (Rutgers)