After a 30 plus year teaching and coaching career, Gary Herron joins the Profs' baseball staff for the 2026 season.
Prior to Rowan, Herron coached baseball for 32 seasons at Riverside High School in Burlington County and had 419 wins for the Rams with two NJSIAA Group I state championships (1996, 1997), three NJSIAA South Jersey Group I titles (1996, 1997 and 1999) and 10 Burlington County Scholastic League Freedom Division titles. Herron also coached baseball for one season at Moorestown Friends and has 423 wins overall on the high school level. Herron was the Burlington County Times Coach of the Year for baseball in 1996 and 1999 and The Trentonian baseball Coach of the Year in 1997.
A five-time coach with the Burlington County Carpenter Cup team, Herron led the squad to the tournament championship in 2012.
As a soccer coach at Riverside, Herron’s teams won the BCSL Freedom Division four times and won the NJSIAA South Jersey Group I Championship in 1996.
A 1979 graduate of Cinnaminson High School, Herron was inducted into the Cinnaminson High School Athletic Hall of Fame in 2002 and was also inducted into the Riverside High School Athletic Hall of Fame in 2011 along with the New Jersey State Baseball Coaches Association (NJSCA) Hall of Fame in 2012.
At Cinnaminson, Herron earned three varsity soccer letters and two varsity baseball letters. In soccer, he was an All-BCSL Liberty Group III honoree and a member of the team winning the prestigious South Jersey Coaches Tournament. In baseball, Herron was also an All-BCSL Liberty Group III honoree.
Herron played two years of baseball at Camden County Community College and two years at Glassboro State (Rowan University). Following college, Gary was an assistant baseball coach at Camden County (1984-1985) and became the youngest college head coach in the country when he took the helm at CCCC for two seasons (1989-1990).
Herron was also a player and coach for the Cinnaminson entry in the semi-pro Rancocas Valley Baseball League (RVL) for 35 seasons and was part of 11 regular season titles and 15 post season championship seasons.
Herron lives in Cinnaminson with his wife, Karen, and has two daughters Samantha and Allyson. Herron’s father, Red, was a 2005 inductee into the South Jersey Baseball Hall of Fame.
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