Heidi VanDerveer

Heidi VanDerveer is a women's basketball collegiate and professional coach. She is currently the head coach at Occidental College.

VanDerveer served as a basketball coach in the WNBA, as an assistant with the Seattle Storm, and had been the Minnesota Lynx second head coach in 2002 after Brian Agler was fired mid-season.

A native of Chautauqua, New York, VanDerveer was a four-year letter-winner in basketball at the College of Charleston from 1982–86, serving as team captain as senior and graduating in 1986 with a bachelor's degree in political science and English. She also has a master's degree in physical education and sports psychology from the University of Tennessee.

She is the younger sister of Tara VanDerveer, the longtime head coach of the Stanford University's women's basketball team.

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Preceded by
Brian Agler
Minnesota Lynx Head Coach
2002
Succeeded by
Suzie McConnell-Serio