Gruber joined SIUE women’s basketball as an assistant in October 2023.
Gruber most recently spent a season as an assistant at Division II Parkside, helping the Rangers to an 18-11 record while coaching two student-athletes to First-Team All-GLIAC honors during the 2022-23 season. Before Parkside, Gruber spent two years as an assistant coach at Coe College.
At Coe during the 2020-21 season, Gruber helped lead the women’s basketball team to a second placed finish while guiding the Kohawks to its first conference title game appearance since 2014.
Prior to his time at Coe, Gruber spent one year at Loras College, where he helped lead the Duhawks to their best season in program history, finishing the season with a record of 25-4, ranking seventh in the country at the Division III level. The Duhawks won their first two NCAA tournament games that season, making it to the round of sixteen before their season was cut short by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Gruber began as the women's basketball graduate assistant coach at North Central College for two seasons. In addition to his role at North Central, Gruber served as the head coach for the Chicago Lockdown, an AAU program, for three seasons.
Gruber graduated from North Central in spring 2016 with a bachelor's degree in broadcast communication and a master's degree in leadership studies with an emphasis in sports leadership in 2019.
