| Eric Olen | |
| Current Title: | Head coach |
| Current Team: | UC San Diego |
| Current Conference: | Big West |
| Birth Date: | 15 October 1980 |
| Birth Place: | Mobile, Alabama, U.S. |
| Player Years1: | 1999–2004 |
| Player Team1: | Spring Hill |
| Coach Years1: | 2004–2013 |
| Coach Team1: | UC San Diego (assistant) |
| Coach Years2: | 2013–present |
| Coach Team2: | UC San Diego |
| Tournament Record: | 5–4 (NCAA DII) 0–1 (CBI) |
| Championships: | 3 CCAA regular season (2017, 2019, 2020) 4 CCAA tournament (2017–2020) |
| Awards: | Big West Coach of the Year (2024) 2× CCAA Coach of the Year (2017, 2020) |
Eric Olen (born October 15, 1980)[1] is an American college basketball coach who is the current head coach of the UC San Diego Tritons.[2]
Olen played at Spring Hill College, where he was part of three-straight Badgers' NAIA national tournament appearances, including an Elite Eight appearance in 2000.[2]
Olen would join his former college coach Bill Carr as an assistant at UC San Diego in 2004, and would stay in the role until 2013 before being promoted to head coach after then head coach Chris Carlson left for an administrative role with the West Coast Conference.[3] [4] Olen has since led the Tritons to three CCAA regular season titles and four consecutive conference tournament titles in addition to four NCAA Division II tournament appearances.[2] He will guide the Tritons into Division I as members of the Big West Conference starting in 2020.[5]