Sport(s) | Baseball |
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Current position | |
Title | Head Coach |
Team | Iowa |
Conference | Big Ten |
Record | 137-86 (.614) |
Biographical details | |
Alma mater | Upper Iowa University |
Playing career | |
1982–1986 | Upper Iowa |
Position(s) | SS |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1988–1999 | Upper Iowa |
2000–2009 | Northern Iowa |
2010–2013 | Indiana State |
2014–present | Iowa |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 827–651–4 |
Tournaments | NCAA: 2-4 MVC: 7-7 Big Ten: 5-5 |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
IIAC: (1993, 1995, 1996, 1997) MVC Tournament: (2001) MVC Regular Season: (2012) |
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Awards | |
Missouri Valley Conference Coach of the Year: (2012) |
IIAC: (1993, 1995, 1996, 1997) MVC Tournament: (2001)
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.
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.
Below is a table of Heller's yearly records as a collegiate head baseball coach.
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