Tom Herrion
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Early Life
Career
Personal Life
Tom Herrion is now the University of South Florida's assistant basketball coach. He was born in the Massachusetts city of Worcester. Herrion graduated from Merrimack College with a bachelor's degree in psychology in 1989. He played baseball and basketball as a Merrimack student and participated as a student auxiliary coach in 1986–87. He also coached the junior varsity team at Cambridge Ridge and Latin High School in Cambridge, Massachusetts for two seasons.
Herrion was a three-year letter winner in baseball and basketball at Oxford High School in Oxford, Massachusetts.
Herrion is the descendant of a long line of coaches. His father, Jim Herrion, was a very well-known high school coach in the New York City Catholic League before becoming an assistant coach at Holy Cross and later the head coach at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Bill Herrion, his elder brother, has also been the University of New Hampshire's head basketball coach since 2005. From 1999 to 2005, Bill was the head coach at East Carolina University, and from 1991 to 1999, he was also the head coach at Drexel University.
He has also been the head basketball coach at Marshall University and the College of Charleston in the past. During his eight years as a head coach, Herrion attained a .583 winning percentage and took three teams to post-season tournaments. Herrion’s 2002-03 team was ranked in the top 25 nationally on the heels of capturing the 2002 Great Alaska Shootout Championship. Herrion worked as an associate coach at the University of Virginia (1999–2002), Providence College (1994–98), and NCAA Division II Merrimack College (1989–94) throughout his collegiate coaching career. For eight seasons, he was a member of Pete Gillen's teams at Virginia and Providence. Herrion assisted Gillen in leading Virginia to a 70–50 (58 percent) record and three postseason appearances in four seasons. Acquiring student-athletes, scheduling and assessing opponents, supporting training and development, and game planning were among his tasks. In three of his four seasons with the program, the Cavaliers' recruiting classes were ranked in the top ten in the country.
Herrion worked as a television analyst for both ESPN Regional and Comcast during the 2006–07 season, offering insight for Conference USA games. Prior to joining Pittsburgh as an associate head coach, he worked as a college talent acquisition advisor at the Nike All-American Camp and the Michael Jordan Flight School. Despite being a very dedicated and busy coach and sportsman, Herrion is an outspoken advocate for parents and society to notice and address autism patients, particularly young people.
