Fred Chmiel

Fredrick Joe Chmiel is an American women's basketball coach. He is currently the women's basketball head coach at the Bowling Green State University. He previously served as the head coach at Feather River College, Lassen College and the San Jose Spiders of the NWBL. He also was an assistant coach in the WNBA and at several NCAA Division I universities including the University of South Carolina where he was part of two national championship teams.

Early life and education Chmiel played basketball at Feather River College in California where he was All-Golden Valley Conference first-team. He also attended the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. He earned a bachelor's degree in liberal studies from Excelsior College and a master's degree in athletics administration from Concordia University.

Coaching career

Chmiel began is coaching career as an assistant coach of the women's basketball team at Feather River College in 1994 and took over as the head coach the following year where he stayed for four seasons. In 1999 he took over as the head coach at Lassen College where he won three Golden Valley Conference championships.

In 2005 he was an assistant with the Charlotte Sting of the WNBA where he coached future Hall of Famer Dawn Staley. He was also a WNBA scout with the Indiana Fever and Detroit Shock. In 2006 he was the head coach of the NWBL's San Jose Spiders. He held an assistant coach position for two seasons at San Diego State, four seasons at Penn State, and one season at Minnesota before reuniting with Staley as one of her assistants at South Carolina in 2015. During his eight years with the Gamecocks they won two national titles and advanced to the final four in each of his final three seasons. He helped coach A'ja Wilson and Aliyah Boston to National Player of the Year awards.

Bowling Green On April 8, 2023, he was named as the 10th head coach women's basketball head coach at Bowling Green.

Head coaching record

NWBL San Jose Spiders 2006 18 8 10 3rd 2 1 1 Won third place game

College

Coaching record does not include his collegiate men's basketball coaching record at Feather River College and Lassen College because it is unknown to the author.

Personal life He and his wife, Julie, have two daughters named Skylar and Ivy.