Kirk Speraw

Kirk Speraw
Title	Head Coach
College	Central Florida
Sport	Basketball
Place of birth	Sioux City, Iowa
Career Highlights
Championships
Atlantic Sun Championship (1994, 1996, 2004, 2005)
School as a player
1975-1979	Iowa
Coaching positions
1979-1980 1980-1982 1982-1987 1987-1990 1990-1993 1993-present	Iowa (asst.) Denver (asst.) Florida Southern (asst.) Pensacola JC Florida (asst.) Central Florida

Kirk Speraw is the head basketball coach at the University of Central Florida, in Orlando, Florida. Kirk arrived at UCF in 1993 and has had tremendous success at UCF, taking the Golden Knights to four NCAA appearances. Kirk was born in Sioux City, Iowa. Speraw played collegiately for Lute Olson at the University of Iowa. He was a member of the 1978-79 Iowa Team that won the Big Ten title.

Kirk Speraw was named the 2006-2007 Conference USA Coach of the Year on March 7th, 2007.

Kirk Speraw and the "Kirks Jerks"

[edit] College coaching career

The Golden Knights have reached the NCAA Tournament four times ('94, '96, '04, '05), all under the guidance of Kirk Speraw.

Speraw's most successful season at UCF was 2003-04, when the Golden Knights finished 25-6, received votes for the top 25, won the Atlantic Sun championship, and reached the NCAA Tournament.
Prior to the 2006-07 season, Speraw had a 209-178 record at UCF, and a 291-199 overall head coaching record.
Coach Speraw has had success at his other stops prior to UCF. He came to UCF after three years as an assistant coach at the University of Florida under former Gators head coach Lon Kruger.
Prior to UF, Kirk Speraw was the head coach at Pensacola Junior College from 1987-90.
At PJC, Speraw led the Pirates to an 82-21 record and three straight Panhandle Conference titles. As a head coach, he was 31-7 and finished fifth nationally in 1989-90.
In 1990, Speraw was named NABC/Kodak National Junior College Coach of the Year and Florida Junior College Coach of the Year.
Kirk Speraw is a member of the National Association of Basketball Coaches and is the former representative of the Atlantic Sun Conference.
Speraw is one of 20 coaches in the country to have at least 13 seasons of service at his current school. Others include Jim Boeheim (Syracuse), Mike Krzyzewski (Duke), Lute Olson (Arizona), Jim Calhoun (Connecticut), and Gary Williams (Maryland).

Year	Record	Notes
2006-2007	22-9	2nd place in C-USA regular season
2005-2006	14-15	First Year in C-USA
2004-2005	24-9	NCAA Tournament
2003-2004	25-6	NCAA Tournament
2002-2003	21-11
2001-2002	17-12
2000-2001	8-23
1999-2000	14-10
1998-1999	19-10
1997-1998	17-11
1996-1997	7-19
1995-1996	11-19	NCAA Tournament
1994-1995	11-16
1993-1994	21-9	NCAA Tournament

He played collegiately under Lute Olson at Iowa.
Andrew DeClercq (Florida '95) and Mark Jones (UCF '98) are the two former NBA players that Speraw has coached, with dozens playing professionally around the globe. Kirk also coached current NBA players Joey Graham and Steven Graham, who played at UCF for two years before transferring to Oklahoma State.
He has an M.B.A. from the University of Denver
Speraw's first name was the inspiration for the formation of a UCF Basketball fan support group (Kirk's Jerks).