Gary Waters
| Sport(s) | Basketball |
|---|---|
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
August 15, 1951 Highland Park, Michigan |
| Playing career | |
| 1972–1974 | Ferris State |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1974–1989 | Ferris State (asst.) |
| 1989–1993 | Eastern Michigan (asst.) |
| 1993–1996 | Eastern Michigan (assoc.) |
| 1996–2001 | Kent State |
| 2001–2006 | Rutgers |
| 2006–2017 | Cleveland State |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 365–307 (.543) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
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MAC regular season championship (2001) 2× MAC Tournament championship (1999, 2001) Horizon League regular season championship (2011) Horizon League Tournament championship (2009) |
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| Awards | |
| MAC Coach of the Year (1999, 2000) Horizon League Coach of the Year (2008) |
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Gary Steven Waters (born August 15, 1951) is an American college basketball coach and the former head men's basketball coach at Cleveland State University.
On April 3, 1996 Waters was named the 21st head coach at Kent State. On July 6, 2000 Waters signed a 6-year contract extension.
On April 6, 2001 Waters was named the 15th head coach at Rutgers. He previously coached at Rutgers University, guiding the Scarlet Knights to the NIT tournament final in 2004. Waters announced his resignation from Rutgers on March 1, 2006 and accepted a buyout from Rutgers worth about $550,000. He officially resigned after he coached his last game for Rutgers on March 16, 2006. As of the end of the 2016 school year no Rutgers men's basketball coach has matched the 19 games Waters won in his final season at Rutgers.
Waters was named the 14th head basketball coach at Cleveland State University on April 6, 2006.On September 12, 2006 he signed his contract with a base salary of $225,000 a year. In 2008 Waters was named the Horizon League coach of the year. On October 27, 2008 Waters signed a 5-year rollover contract extension with Cleveland State with a base salary of $283,264 a year. On November 8, 2012 Waters signed a 7-year contract extension with Cleveland State with a base salary of $340,000. On March 7, 2017 Gary Waters announced his retirement from Cleveland State.
Gary Steven Waters is a Detroit, Michigan native and a 1969 graduate of Mackenzie High School. Waters graduated with a B.S. in Business Administration from Ferris State in 1975, a B.S. in Business Education from Ferris State in 1978 and an M.A. in Educational Administration from Central Michigan in 1976. Waters is also a member of the Ferris State University Hall of Fame. He is married to the former Bernadette Amos, with two children Sean and Seena.
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
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