Greg Herenda
Greg Herenda (born April 2, 1961)
Current position: Assistant men’s basketball coach
Current team: Elon Phoenix (Head coach: Billy Taylor)
Current conference: Coastal Athletic Association (CAA)
Teams coached: Cabrini Cavaliers, UMass Lowell River Hawks, Fairleigh Dickinson Knights
Cabrini record^: 12–14 (.462)
UMass Lowell record^: 95-54 (.638)
Fairleigh Dickinson record: 105-164 (.390)
Overall record^: 212-232 (.477)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 2 (2016, 2019)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
- NEC Regular Season Champion: 1 (2019)
- NEC Tournament Champion: 2 (2016, 2019)
- NEC-10 (Div II) Tournament Champion: 1 (2010)
- NCAA Division II Tournament Appearances: 4 (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012)
Awards:
- NEC-10 (Div II) Coach of the Year: 1 (2008)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2022-present | Elon (asst) |
| 2013-2022 | Fairleigh Dickinson |
| 2008-2013 | UMass Lowell |
| 2007-2008 | Cabrini |
| 2006-2007 | Elgin CC |
| 1999-2005 | East Carolina (assoc. HC) |
| 1997-1999 | Yale (asst) |
| 1994-1997 | Seton Hall (asst) |
| 1989-1994 | Holy Cross (asst) |
| 1985-1989 | Merrimack (asst) |
| 1983-1985 | Lowell State (asst) |
Greg Herenda Facts
- Greg Herenda
- Born April 2, 1961
- Hometown: North Bergen, New Jersey
- Alma Mater: Merrimack College (BA, 1983)
- Played four seasons for Bert Hammel at Division II Merrimack College in North Andover, MD
- After graduation spent two years as an assistant at then-Division II UMass Lowell under head coach Don Doucette
- Returned to Merrimack in 1985 and worked as an assistant under Hammel for four seasons
- Joined George Blaney‘s staff at Holy Cross in 1989 and then followed him to Seton Hall five years later, working on his staff for a total of eight seasons between the two programs
- Spent two years at Yale under coach Dick Kuchen before becoming Bill Herrion‘s associate head coach at East Carolina in 1999
- After six years at ECU, Herenda spent one year as the head coach at Elgin CC (IL) where he went 18-11
- Went 12-14 in one season as the head coach at Division II Cabrini College (now University)
- Returned to UMass Lowell in 2008, spending the next five years as the River Hawks’ head coach
- Led the team to four Division II NCAA Tournaments during his five-year tenure
- Hired in April 2013 to be the head coach at Fairleigh Dickinson, his fourth head coaching job but first at the Division I level
- Herenda’s team won the 2016 NEC Tournament, earning a trip to the NCAA Tournament First Four
- It was the program’s fifth ever trip to the NCAA Tournament and first since 2005
- Won a share of the NEC regular season title in 2019 and returned the Knights to the NCAAs by way of another NEC Tournament crown
- Fired in April 2022 after going 4-22 in the previous season and 24-56 combined in the previous three
- Herenda’s team won the 2016 NEC Tournament, earning a trip to the NCAA Tournament First Four
- In June 2022, Herenda was hired as an assistant at Elon by new head coach Billy Taylor
Greg Herenda Coaching Tree
- Grant Billmeier (NJIT)
- Patrick Sellers (Central Connecticut)
^ overall record includes head coaching positions at the NCAA Division I, Division II and Division III levels; UMass Lowell was a Division II program during Herenda’s tenure, but has since moved up to Division I