Rick Heller

Rick Heller is an American baseball coach and former shortstop, who is the current head baseball coach of the Iowa Hawkeyes.[1][2][3] Heller played college baseball at Upper Iowa for head coach Bill Prochaska from 1982 to 1986. He then served as the head Upper Iowa Peacocks (1988–1999), the Northern Iowa Panthers (2000–2009) and the Indiana State Sycamores (2010–2013).

Rick Heller

Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Iowa
Conference	Big Ten
Record	214–135
Playing career
1982–1986	Upper Iowa
Position(s)	Shortstop
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1987	Bakersfield HS (MO)
1988–1999	Upper Iowa
2000–2009	Northern Iowa
2010–2013	Indiana State
2014–present	Iowa
Head coaching record
Tournaments	NCAA: 3–4 MVC: 7–7 Big Ten: 10–9
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
4 IIAC (1993, 1995,–1997) 1 MVC Tournament (2001) 1 MVC regular season (2012) 1 Big Ten Tournament (2017)
Awards
4× IIAC Coach of the Year (1989, 1993, 1995, 1996) MVC Coach of the Year (2012)

Head coaching record

Below is a table of Heller's yearly records as a collegiate head baseball coach.[4][5][6]

Statistics overview

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Upper Iowa Peacocks (Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – DIII) (1988–1999)
1988	Upper Iowa	7–30
1989	Upper Iowa	10–23
1990	Upper Iowa	19–17
1991	Upper Iowa	22–13
1992	Upper Iowa	23–16
1993	Upper Iowa	21–15–1		1st	NCAA Regional
1994	Upper Iowa	21–18–1
1995	Upper Iowa	31–13		1st	NCAA Regional
1996	Upper Iowa	37-14		1st	College World Series
1997	Upper Iowa	30–14
1998	Upper Iowa	38–8
1999	Upper Iowa	30–15–1		3rd
Upper Iowa:		289–194–3
Northern Iowa Panthers (Missouri Valley Conference) (2000–2009)
2000	Northern Iowa	23–33	9–22	9th
2001	Northern Iowa	35–28	17–15	5th	NCAA Regional
2002	Northern Iowa	30–25–1	14–18	6th	MVC Tournament
2003	Northern Iowa	27–28	16–15	4th	MVC Tournament
2004	Northern Iowa	25–31	12–20	T–5th
2005	Northern Iowa	26–28	9–15	T–8th
2006	Northern Iowa	28–27	10–14	T–7th
2007	Northern Iowa	23–28	8–16	T–6th
2008	Northern Iowa	30–24	14–10	4th	MVC Tournament
2009	Northern Iowa	23–26	7–15	7th
Northern Iowa:		270–278–1	116–160
Indiana State Sycamores (Missouri Valley Conference) (2010–2013)
2010	Indiana State	35–19	10–10	T–3rd	MVC Tournament
2011	Indiana State	29–28	8–13	6th	MVC Tournament
2012	Indiana State	41–19	14–7	1st	NCAA Regional
2013	Indiana State	26–25	9–11	6th	MVC Tournament
Indiana State:		131–91	41–41
Iowa Hawkeyes (Big Ten Conference) (2014–present)
2014	Iowa	30–23	10–14	T–7th	Big Ten Tournament
2015	Iowa	41–18	19–5	2nd	NCAA Regional
2016	Iowa	30–26	12–12	T–8th	Big Ten Tournament
2017	Iowa	39–20	15–9	T–4th	NCAA Regional
2018	Iowa	33–19	13–9	6th	Big Ten Tournament
2019	Iowa	31–24	12–12	T-6th	Big Ten Tournament
2020	Iowa	10–5	0–0		Season canceled due to COVID-19
Iowa:		214–135	81–61
Total:		904–698–4
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

• List of current NCAA Division I baseball coaches

References

1. 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.
2. "Iowa tabs Rick Heller as new baseball coach". The Gazette. July 12, 2013. Retrieved July 24, 2013.
3. "Rick Heller Bio". Indiana State Sycamores. Retrieved July 24, 2013.
4. "2011 Indiana State Baseball Yearbook" (PDF). GoSycamores.com. Indiana State Athletics Communications. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 20, 2014. Retrieved July 20, 2014.
5. "2014 Missouri Valley Baseball Record Book" (PDF). MVC.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 20, 2014. Retrieved July 20, 2014.
6. "2014 Big Ten Baseball Standings". D1Baseball.com. Archived from the original on July 20, 2014. Retrieved July 20, 2014.