| Jeff Harada | |
| Current Title: | Head coach |
| Current Team: | Cal State Fullerton |
| Current Conference: | Big West |
| Birth Date: | November 24, 1971 |
| Birth Place: | Honolulu, Hawaii |
| Alma Mater: | (1995) |
| Player Years1: | 1989–1995 |
| Coach Sport1: | Men's basketball |
| Coach Years2: | 1997–1999 |
| Coach Team2: | Colorado (volunteer asst.) |
| Coach Years3: | 2004–2007 |
| Coach Team3: | Hawaii Pacific (asst.) |
| Coach Sport4: | Women's basketball |
| Coach Years5: | 2007–2011 |
| Coach Team5: | Hawaii Pacific |
| Coach Years6: | 2011–2014 |
| Coach Team6: | Navy (asst.) |
| Coach Years7: | 2014–2017 |
| Coach Team7: | Central Washington |
| Coach Years8: | 2017–present |
| Coach Team8: | Cal State Fullerton |
| Admin Years1: | 1999–2001 |
| Admin Team1: | Colorado (director of basketball ops.) |
| Admin Years2: | 2004–2007 |
| Admin Team2: | Hawaii Pacific (SID) |
| Admin Years3: | 2007–2011 |
| Admin Team3: | Hawaii Pacific (associate AD) |
| Tournament Record: | 0–1 (NCAA D-II) |
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Jeff Harada (born November 24, 1970)[1] is an American basketball coach who is currently the head coach of the women's basketball team at California State University, Fullerton.
Harada began his coaching career at Colorado as a volunteer assistant with the men's basketball team. He was promoted to director of basketball operations in 1999.
Harada joined the men's basketball staff at Hawaii Pacific in 2004 as an assistant coach, and was named the women's basketball head coach in 2007. As head coach, Harada turned around a program that had only won two games the season prior to his hiring into a team that made it to the NCAA Division II Tournament in his third season (2009–10). Harada was also named the PacWest coach of the year in that same season.[2] During his tenure at HPU (2007–11), Harada coached one all-region and eight all-conference (Pacific West) players in four years, including two freshman of the year and one newcomer of the year. While at Hawaii Pacific, he also served as their sports information director and later associate athletics director of compliance.[3]
Harada was hired to be an assistant coach at Navy in 2011.[4] In his three seasons there, the team advanced to two NCAA Tournaments and one NIT Tournament, winning the Patriot League Championship twice.
Harada was named the head coach at Central Washington University in 2014.[5] At Central Washington, the Wildcats won 44 games in three seasons under Harada after only winning 25 in the previous three seasons.[6] In his first year at Central, Harada nearly doubled the Wildcats' overall win total and nearly tripled their conference win total from the previous season. In his second year, the Wildcats saw the highest overall win total since 2006 (17) and highest conference win total since 2004 (10). Harada coached two GNAC Freshmen of the Year (2015, 2016) and seven all-GNAC selections in his three years at CWU.
Harada was named the head coach at Cal State Fullerton in 2017.[7] In his first season he finished with more overall and Big West Conference wins than the previous two seasons combined. In year two, he nearly doubled the win total from the previous year and their 14 wins were the most since the 2009-10 season. After leading the program to their first winning season in nearly 30 years in year three, he signed an extension that put him under contract until the 2025 season.[8]