Harry Meeks

The 2006-2007 season was Harry Meeks 16th as Lady Blazers' head coach. He is the most successful coach in Lady Trailblazer basketball history with an overall record through last season of 359 wins and only 148 losses (.708).

Meek's 300th coaching win came at the P.E. Complex on December 6, 2003, when the Lady Blazers beat Southeastern Illinois College, 59-56, in the final game of the Sodexho Classic.

The Lady Blazers went on to win 28 games including a 74-69 win over Cincinnati State in the Region XII championship game and 81-64 victory over Malcolm X in the district playoff contest.

They made their ninth trip to the NJCAA finals in Salina, Kan. They lost to Western Nebraska, 58-54, in the opening round, defeated Gadsden State, Ala., 87-82, before losing a heartbreaking, 60-58, decision to Southern Idaho in the semi-finals of the consolation bracket.

Meeks took over as Lady Blazers head coach prior to the 1991-92 season. The following year, he led Vincennes to its best record ever, 32-and-2, and fifth place in the NJCAA tournament. The 1997-98 team won 29 consecutive games from the start of the season before finishing with a 29-and-2 record.

He coached the Scottsboro, Ala., boys basketball team for three years prior to accepting the V.U. position. Scottsboro won only five games in the four seasons prior to Meeks' arrival. They were the smallest school in Alabama's largest enrollment classification, but managed to finish with a 13-and-13 record in 1991.

Coach Meeks coached eleven years in the men's college basketball ranks before taking over the Scottsboro program. He was an assistant coach at Western Carolina for five seasons, assistant coach for four seasons at the University of Cincinnati and two seasons at Virginia Tech University. He began his coaching career in 1973 at Danville, Va., and later coached at a military prep school in Woodstock, Va.

His experience includes working with top high school girls basketball players during summer camps in North Carolina and Georgia. He conducts a highly-attended and successful summer camp at Vincennes University.

Meeks is a United States Navy veteran and native of Staunton, Va. He has a master's degree from Virginia Tech.

He and his wife, Martha, are parents of two daughters, Molly and Melanie. Molly played for her father at VU before transferring to Coastal Carolina University in Conway, S.C. She is currently a Mechanical Engineer for the Chip Ganassi Racing Team. Melanie is a senior at IUPUI in Indianapolis majoring in computer information systems.