Rick Heller

Rick Heller

• School Upper Iowa University

Biographical Information

Rick Heller is a college coach.

Heller was a shortstop in college. He became coach at Upper Iowa in 1987 after graduating and was named Iowa Conference Coach of the Year four times. He was 291-194-3 in 12 seasons (1988-1999) there.

Rick then was 270-278-1 as coach at the University of Northern Iowa from 2000-2009. He helped develop Nic Ungs and Adam Boeve among others. In August 2009, he became head coach at Indiana State University. He moved to University of Iowa in 2014.

Year-by-Year Coaching Record

Year	School	Overall Record	Conference Record	Notes
1988	Upper Iowa University	7-30
1989	Upper Iowa University	10-23	8-10
1990	Upper Iowa University	19-17	11-9
1991	Upper Iowa University	22-13	9-7
1992	Upper Iowa University	23-16	13-7
1993	Upper Iowa University	21-15-1	10-2	Division III Regionals
1994	Upper Iowa University	21-18-1	5-11
1995	Upper Iowa University	31-13	14-6	Division III Regionals
1996	Upper Iowa University	37-14	20-1	Division III Regionals / Division III CWS
1997	Upper Iowa University	30-14	13-6
1998	Upper Iowa University	38-8	18-4
1999	Upper Iowa University	30-15-1	16-7-1
2000	University of Northern Iowa	23-33	9-22
2001	University of Northern Iowa	35-28	17-15	MVC / CWS Regionals
2002	University of Northern Iowa	30-25-1	14-18	MVC
2003	University of Northern Iowa	27-28	16-15	MVC
2004	University of Northern Iowa	25-31	12-20
2005	University of Northern Iowa	25-29	9-15
2006	University of Northern Iowa	28-27	10-14
2007	University of Northern Iowa	23-28	8-16
2008	University of Northern Iowa	30-24	14-10	MVC
2009	University of Northern Iowa	23-26	7-15
2010	Indiana State University	35-19	10-10	MVC
2011	Indiana State University	29-28	8-13	MVC
2012	Indiana State University	41-19	14-7	MVC / CWS Regionals
2013	Indiana State University	26-25	9-11	MVC
2014	University of Iowa	30-23	10-14	Big Ten
2015	University of Iowa	41-18	19-5	Big Ten / CWS Regionals
2016	University of Iowa	30-26	12-12	Big Ten
2017	University of Iowa	39-22	15-9	Big Ten / CWS Regionals
2018	University of Iowa	33-20	13-9	Big Ten
2019	University of Iowa	31-24	12-12	Big Ten
2020	University of Iowa	10-5	0-0
2021	University of Iowa	26-18	26-18
2022	University of Iowa	36-19	17-7	Big Ten
2023	University of Iowa	44-16	15-8	Big Ten / CWS Regionals

Source: Indiana State bio