Rick Heller
Rick Heller| Sport(s) |
Baseball |
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| Current position |
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Head Coach |
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| Team |
Iowa |
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| Playing career |
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| 1982–1986 |
Upper Iowa |
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| Coaching career (HC unless noted) |
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| 1988–1999 |
Upper Iowa |
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| 2000–2009 |
Northern Iowa |
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| 2010–2013 |
Indiana State |
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| 2014–present |
Iowa |
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Rick Heller is an American college baseball coach, currently serving as head coach of the Iowa Hawkeyes baseball team. He has held this position since prior to the 2014 season.[1][2][3]
Heller spent his playing career at Upper Iowa, then a Division III school, before being named coach of the Peacocks. He remained at Upper Iowa as coach for 12 seasons. He then moved to Northern Iowa, where he remained for ten seasons, until the baseball program was discontinued after the 2009 season. Heller was hired at Indiana State where he remained for four seasons before being named head coach at Iowa.
Head coaching record
Below is a table of Heller's yearly records as a collegiate head baseball coach.[4][5][6]
| Season |
Team |
Overall |
Conference |
Standing |
Postseason
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| Upper Iowa (Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – DIII) (1988–1999)
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| 1988 |
Upper Iowa |
7-30 | | |
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| 1989 |
Upper Iowa |
10-23 | | |
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| 1990 |
Upper Iowa |
19-17 | | |
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| 1991 |
Upper Iowa |
22-13 | | |
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| 1992 |
Upper Iowa |
23-16 | | |
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| 1993 |
Upper Iowa |
21-15-1 | | 1st | NCAA Regional
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| 1994 |
Upper Iowa |
21-18-1 | | |
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| 1995 |
Upper Iowa |
31-13 | | 1st | NCAA Regional
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| 1996 |
Upper Iowa |
39-12 | | 1st | College World Series
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| 1997 |
Upper Iowa |
30-14 | | |
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| 1998 |
Upper Iowa |
38-8 | | |
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| 1999 |
Upper Iowa |
30-15-1 | | 3rd |
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| Upper Iowa: |
291-194-3 | |
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| Northern Iowa (Missouri Valley Conference – DI) (2000–2009)
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| 2000 |
Northern Iowa |
23-33 | 9-22 | 9th |
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| 2001 |
Northern Iowa |
35-28 | 17-15 | 5th | MVC Tournament
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| 2002 |
Northern Iowa |
30-25-1 | 14-18 | 6th | MVC Tournament
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| 2003 |
Northern Iowa |
27-28 | 16-15 | 4th | MVC Tournament
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| 2004 |
Northern Iowa |
25-31 | 12-20 | T-5th |
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| 2005 |
Northern Iowa |
25-29 | 9-15 | T-8th |
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| 2006 |
Northern Iowa |
28-27 | 10-14 | T-7th |
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| 2007 |
Northern Iowa |
23-28 | 8-16 | T-6th |
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| 2008 |
Northern Iowa |
30-24 | 14-10 | 4th | MVC Tournament
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| 2009 |
Northern Iowa |
23-26 | 7-15 | 7th |
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| Northern Iowa: |
269-279-1 | 116-160 |
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| Indiana State (Missouri Valley Conference) (2010–2013)
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| 2010 |
Indiana State |
35-19 | 10-10 | T-3rd | MVC Tournament
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| 2011 |
Indiana State |
29-28 | 8-13 | 6th | MVC Tournament
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| 2012 |
Indiana State |
41-19 | 14-7 | 1st | NCAA Regional
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| 2013 |
Indiana State |
26-25 | 9-11 | 6th | MVC Tournament
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| Indiana State: |
131-91 | 41-41 |
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| Iowa (Big Ten Conference) (2014–present)
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| 2014 |
Iowa |
30-23 | 10-14 | T-7th | Big Ten Tournament
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| 2015 |
Iowa |
41-18 | 19-5 | 2nd | NCAA Regional
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| Iowa: |
110-57 | 48-24 |
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| Total: | 800-621-4 | |
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National champion
Postseason invitational champion
Conference regular season champion
Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
Division regular season champion
Division regular season and conference tournament champion
Conference tournament champion |
See also
References
- ↑ Meredith, Luke (July 12, 2013). "Iowa Hires Heller as Baseball Coach". SFGate.com. Associated Press. Archived from the original on July 12, 2013. Retrieved July 24, 2013.
- ↑ "Iowa tabs Rick Heller as new baseball coach". The Gazette. July 12, 2013. Retrieved July 24, 2013.
- ↑ "Rick Heller Bio". Indiana State Sycamores. Retrieved July 24, 2013.
- ↑ "2011 Indiana State Baseball Yearbook". GoSycamores.com. Indiana State Athletics Communications. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 20, 2014. Retrieved July 20, 2014.
- ↑ "2014 Missouri Valley Baseball Record Book". MVC.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 20, 2014. Retrieved July 20, 2014.
- ↑ "2014 Big Ten Baseball Standings". D1Baseball.com. Archived from the original on July 20, 2014. Retrieved July 20, 2014.
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- Captain Avery (1893–1894)
- J. E. Vance (1895–1897)
- Trothe (1898)
- Sutherland (1899)
- No coach (1900–1901)
- Captain Cotten (1902)
- Unknown (1903–1904)
- R. B. Leland (1905)
- Charles Pell (1906)
- John Fitzgerald (1907)
- Roy F. Seymour (1908)
- Unknown (1909–1910)
- Roy F. Seymour (1911)
- H. F. Pasini (1912–1913)
- H. G. Lundeman (1914)
- Roy F. Seymour (1915–1917)
- Van Oot (1918)
- Arthur D. Dickinson (1919)
- Abram James (1920–1921)
- L. L. Mendenhall (1922–1923)
- Osborne Cowles (1924)
- Rosco Minton (1925)
- Lawrence W. Whitford (1926–1942)
- No team (1943–1945)
- Lawrence W. Whitford (1946–1965)
- J. D. Anderson (1966–1984)
- Gary Swanson (1985–1987)
- Gene Baker (1988–1990)
- Dave Schrage (1991–1999)
- Rick Heller (2000–2009)
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- Student manager (1896)
- Elrod (1897)
- No team (1898)
- Blessing (1899)
- No team (1900)
- Jeffers (1901)
- Gray (1902)
- Student manager (1903)
- Cavanaugh (1904)
- Student manager (1905)
- N. F. Fultz (1906)
- O. M. Hall & Oliver Thompson (1907)
- Ernest E. Cahal (1908)
- Cohee (1909)
- Jesse A. Wood (1910)
- Kasper Shanner (1911)
- Bertram Wiggins (1912)
- Alfred Westphal (1913–1917)
- Orville E. Sink (1918)
- Birch Bayh (1919–1923)
- Arthur L. Strum (1924–1928)
- Walter E. Marks (1929–1931)
- Jack Hannah (1932–1933)
- Walter E. Marks (1934–1937)
- Paul Wolf (1938–1941)
- Walter E. Marks (1942)
- No team (1943)
- Chief Landson (1944)
- No team (1945)
- Walter E. Marks (1946–1947)
- John Wooden (1948)
- Walter E. Marks (1949–1955)
- Paul Wolf (1956–1967)
- Jim Rendel (1968–1975)
- Bob Warn (1976–2006)
- Lindsay Meggs (2007–2009)
- Rick Heller (2010–2013)
- Mitch Hannahs (2014– )
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