| Fred Chmiel | |
| Current Title: | Head coach |
| Current Team: | Bowling Green |
| Current Conference: | MAC |
| Current Record: | 16–15 † |
| Alma Mater: | Excelsior College |
| Coach Years1: | 1994–1995 |
| Coach Team1: | Feather River College (men's asst.) |
| Coach Years2: | 1995–1999 |
| Coach Team2: | Feather River College (men's HC) |
| Coach Years3: | 1999–2005 |
| Coach Team3: | Lassen College (men's HC) |
| Coach Years4: | 2005 |
| Coach Team4: | Charlotte Sting (asst.) |
| Coach Years5: | 2006 |
| Coach Team5: | San Jose Spiders |
| Coach Years6: | 2006–2008 |
| Coach Team6: | Temple (asst.) |
| Coach Years7: | 2008–2010 |
| Coach Team7: | San Diego State (asst.) |
| Coach Years8: | 2010–2014 |
| Coach Team8: | Penn State (asst.) |
| Coach Years9: | 2014–2015 |
| Coach Team9: | Minnesota (asst.) |
| Coach Years10: | 2015–2023 |
| Coach Team10: | South Carolina (asst.) |
| Coach Years11: | 2023–present |
| Coach Team11: | Bowling Green |
| Overall Record: | 16–15 † |
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.[1] 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.[2]
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.[3] [4] [5]
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.[6]
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.[7] In 2006 he was the head coach of the NWBL's San Jose Spiders.[4]
He accepted his first Division I assistant coach position under Dawn Staley from 2006 through 2008 when she was the head coach at Temple.[8] 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.[4] [3] [9] 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.[10] He helped coach A'ja Wilson and Aliyah Boston to National Player of the Year awards.[11]
On April 8, 2023, he was named as the 10th head coach women's basketball head coach at Bowling Green.[12]
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.
He and his wife, Julie, have two daughters named Skylar and Ivy.[3]