Women’s basketball head coach Kayla Waskow added Eric Gruber to her coaching staff in June of 2020. Gruber, who spent a year as an assistant coach at Loras College joins the Kohawk bench after helping the Duhawks reach the sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament prior to its cancellation.
Prior to coming to Loras, Gruber was the women's basketball graduate assistant coach at North Central College for two seasons. In addition to his role at North Central, Gruber served as the head coach for the Chicago Lockdown, an AAU program, for three seasons.
Gruber was a four-year member of the Cardinals' men's golf program from 2012-2016 and competed in three College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) Championship tournaments, highlighted by a 17th-place finish as a junior in 2015. He led the team with a career-best stroke average of 78.43 as a senior.
Gruber graduated from North Central in spring 2016 with a bachelor's degree in broadcast communication and a master's degree in leadership studies, with an emphasis in sports leadership in 2019.
