William Richard Herrion (born April 6, 1958) is an American

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coach. Since 2005, he has been the men's head coach with the

University of New Hampshire The University of New Hampshire (UNH) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Durham, New Hampshire. It was founded and incorporated in 1866 as a land grant college in Hanover in connection with Dartmouth College, m ...

. Prior to coming to UNH, he served as the head coach at East Carolina University and Drexel University. He has been an assistant with

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, and the U.S. National Team.

Personal life

Herrion is a 1981 graduate of

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. Herrion's son Ryan played for him at UNH from 2008 through 2012, and was director of operations and video coordinator for the Wildcats from 2013 to 2015. Herrion's brother Tom formerly served in the

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's Division I as the head men's basketball coach at the

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and an assistant coach at the

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. Tom is the former head men's basketball coach at

Marshall University Marshall University is a public research university in Huntington, West Virginia. It was founded in 1837 and is named after John Marshall, the fourth Chief Justice of the United States. The university is currently composed of nine colleges: ...

Coaching career

Herrion began his college coaching career in 1985 as an assistant under

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. He followed Jarvis to

before striking out on his own as a head coach. In April 1991, Herrion was hired to coach Drexel after

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assistant Tom McConnell turned down the job. Herrion later coached at East Carolina and UNH. He is one of the most successful men's coaches in the history of the

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. The

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won 3 conference championships in a row under Herrion's leadership from 1994 to 1996. In 1998, on the occasion of the conference's 20th anniversary, he was named one of the four most influential coaches in the conference's history: the other three coaches were Jarvis,

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and

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. He holds the conference record for most playoff wins (18 with Drexel, 1 with UNH, for a total of 19.) On December 4, 2010, he won his 300th game when UNH beat Colgate, 65–60, and earned his 400th career win on January 10, 2018 in a 71–67 win over

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Head coaching record

References

External links

New Hampshire bioEast Carolina bio
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