Greg Heiar (born August 14, 1975)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: New Mexico State Aggies
Current conference: Western Athletic Conference (WAC)
New Mexico State record: 0-0 (.000)
Overall record^: 0-0 (.000)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
- WAC Regular Season Champion: 0
- WAC Tournament Champion: 0
- NJCAA Division I National Championships: 1 (2022)
Awards:
- NJCAA Division I Coach of the Year: 1 (2022)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
2022-present | New Mexico State |
2021-2022 | Northwest Florida State |
2020-2021 | East Tennessee State (asst) |
2019-2020 | LSU (assoc. HC) |
2017-2019 | LSU (asst) |
2011-2017 | Wichita State (asst) |
2009-2011 | Southern Miss (asst) |
2004-2009 | Chipola JC |
2003-2004 | Chipola JC (asst) |
2002-2003 | Loras College (asst) |
2001-2002 | Loras College (grad. asst) |
2000-2001 | Mount St. Clare (student asst) |
Greg Heiar Facts
- Greg Heiar
- Born August 14, 1975
- Hometown: Dubuque, Iowa
- Alma Mater: Mount St. Clare College (BA, 2000)
- Played at Kirkwood CC (IA) and Mount St. Clare (IA), starting his coaching career at the latter as a student assistant
- Worked as a graduate assistant and then full-time assistant at Loras College (IA) before taking an assistant job at Chipola JC (FL) in 2003; became head coach at Chipola the following year and won 164 games and five Panhandle Conference titles in five years at the helm
- Reached the NJCAA National Tournament four times, including a third-place finish in 2009
- Moved up to the D-I ranks in 2009, spending two seasons working under Larry Eustachy at Southern Miss
- Spent six seasons at Wichita State assisting Gregg Marshall; was there for five MVC titles and six NCAA Tournaments, including the 2013 Final Four
- Left for LSU in 2017, spending three seasons on Will Wade‘s staff – including one as associate head coach
- Spent one season as an assistant under new head coach Jason Shay at East Tennessee State
- Was head coach at Northwest Florida State College for one year, going 31-5 and winning the 2022 NJCAA D-I National Championship
- Hired in March 2022 to be the head coach of the New Mexico State Aggies
Greg Heiar Coaching Tree
- coming soon
^ overall record includes head coaching positions at the NCAA Division I level only