| Title: | Athletic Director/Women's Basketball Head Coach |
| Phone: | 812-888-4397 |
| Email: | hmeeks@vinu.edu |
Harry Meeks is entering his 33rd year at the helm of the Vincennes University Women's Basketball Team. He is also the VU Athletic Director. As the most successful coach in the program's history, Meeks enters the 2023-24 season with an overall record of 731-272.
Meeks recorded his 700th career win at Vincennes on March 13, 2021 and passed Hall of Fame coach Dan Sparks for the most wins in Vincennes University basketball history on April 1, 2021 with his 707th career win.
Coach Meeks was inducted into the NJCAA Women's Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2020.
Under Meeks, the Lady Blazers have posted 26 seasons with a winning record and 11 trips to the NJCAA Women's National Tournament.
Coach Meeks took over prior to the 1991-92 season. The following year, he led VU to its best record ever, 32-2, and a fifth-place finish in the NJCAA Division I National Championship Tournament. Another highlight of Meeks' VU tenure was the 1997-98 team reeling off 29 consecutive wins to start off the season. Among 24 NJCAA All-Americans during Meeks' tenure include, 2011 State Farm/Women's Basketball Coaches Association Junior College Player of the Year Jasmine McGhee, as well as 2014 All-American Anya Kalenta. Both players were honored following their Trailblazer careers by the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame for their outstanding play.
Coach Meeks led an Alabama high school boys team for three years prior to his arrival at VU. As the smallest school in that state's largest enrollment classification, that high school program had won only five games in the four seasons before Coach Meeks took over. Coach Meeks logged 11 years in the men's college basketball ranks before accepting the Alabama high school position. He was an assistant coach at Western Carolina for five seasons, served as an assistant coach at the University of Cincinnati for four years and worked for two seasons at Virginia Tech. He began his coaching career at Danville, Virginia, in 1973 and later coached at a military prep school in Woodstock, Virginia.
A U.S. Navy veteran and native of Staunton, Virginia, Coach Meeks holds a master's degree from Virginia Tech. He and his late wife, Martha, are parents of two daughters, Molly and Melanie. Molly played for her father at VU before transferring to Coastal Carolina.
812-888-4397 or hmeeks@vinu.edu