IVC Basketball Coaching Staff

Jerry Hernandez is in his 13th season as the head men’s basketball coach at Irvine Valley College and 21st collegiate coaching campaign. IVC opened the 2007-08 season with its best ever start, winning 20 of its first 22 games. The team has been ranked as high as No. 2 in the state, which is the best in program history. IVC has also been ranked as high as No. 3 in the state three different times this season. The team was also ranked No. 1 in Southern California for the first time ever. The Lasers captured two tournament titles, taking their own Irvine Valley Classic and the American River Tournament. And two players from the 2007-08 team have already signed with Division I universities (Bryce Webster with Utah State and La'Shard Anderson with Boise State).

Hernandez guided the Lasers to a record of 16-14 last season.
Ten years ago, Hernandez led the Lasers to a record of 26-8 and their first-ever Orange Empire Conference title. That year Irvine Valley was ranked ninth in the final California state poll.
Hernandez has helped IVC to the playoffs in all but two of the 11 years he has been in charge of the program and his team’s have won 20 or more games six times. After 12 seasons Laser teams under Hernandez are 227-148. Irvine Valley teams have been known for their attention to detail, hustling play and defensive prowess. As a result IVC teams have led the conference in either scoring defense or field goal percentage defense in seven of Hernandez’s 12 years at the helm.
IVC and Hernandez have strong reputations for being one of the better California community colleges and coaches in the state. Almost 55 players have received scholarships at four-year colleges, with 15 of them playing at Division I institutions. The last to head off to Division I schools were center Todd Follmer (Hawaii) from the 2005-06 team and center Joakim Kjellbom (Northern Arizona) and forward Danny Lambert (Cal State Fullerton) from the 2002-03 Laser team. Three former IVC players, Commander King (Northern Arizona), Daryl Todd (Fairleigh Dickinson) and Mike Ahmad (Utah State) have competed in the NCAA Tournament. And another former standout Laser player under Hernandez, J.C. Timmons, helped lead UC Davis to the NCAA Division II title in 1998. Under Hernandez’s guidance, Irvine Valley has developed the respect of universities as a place to recruit quality student athletes.
Hernandez got his start in coaching at the high school level, working at Paramount, Sonora and Tustin. After graduating from Cal State University, Fullerton in 1984, he became an assistant coach at Cerritos College. Hernandez worked under hall of fame coach Jack Bogdanovich from 1985-89. He was very familiar with the program, having played at Cerritos from 1978-80. After the 1987 season Hernandez assumed co-head coaching responsibilities with the Cerritos women’s team. During this time, Hernandez worked on his master’s degree, which he received from Azusa Pacific University in 1989. Hernandez returned to the Cerritos men’s team as an assistant when the Falcons won state championships in 1989 and 1992. He then left to become the top assistant at Cal Poly Pomona in 1993. Hernandez was the recruiting coordinator and handled defensive coaching duties there. In 1994, Hernandez returned to join Bogdanovich’s staff at Cerritos for a third stint. The Falcons posted a 32-2 record that season. At the end of that season Hernandez was picked to become the new Irvine Valley College coach. He replaced coaching legend Bill Mulligan.

Hernandez and his wife, Liz, reside in Anaheim Hills with their two sons — Anthony and Daniel.

Tandy Gillis rejoins Coach Hernandez’s staff for a 12th season, after assisting Bill Mulligan during the 1994-95 campaign. Gillis works with the defense and post players. He is well known in Southern California and particularly Orange County basketball circles, having coached for 16 years at Orange Coast College.
Gillis compiled a 244-228 overall record at OCC and led the Pirates to the state championship during the 1978-79 season. In the title game, Orange Coast topped Mulligan’s Saddleback squad.
Prior to his stint at Orange Coast Gillis headed the Corona del Mar High boys team for eight seasons.
Gillis played college basketball at UC Berkeley and was a member of the Golden Bears’ 1958-59 national championship team and the 1959-60 runners-up. There he played against some of the greatest players ever to lace up a pair of sneakers. He went up against John Havlecek, Elgin Baylor and Coach Bobby Knight. Tandy was known for being an excellent shooter and defender and for holding West Virginia’s Jerry West to his collegiate low.

Andrew Alhadeff enters his second season on Jerry Hernandez's coaching staff.
Hernandez is happy to have the enthusiastic, young coach at IVC.
Alhadeff finished an impressive playing career at Division III University of Redlands in 2005.
He was a part of the most prolific scoring team in college basketball history his senior season in 2005. Redlands, under head coach Gary Smith, averaged 132.4 points per game.
Alhadeff finished his career fourth all-time in assists at Redlands.
Among his other accomplishments at the school were being a captain his junior and senior seasons, earning the Bulldog Award (hustle award) during his sophomore season in 2003, leading the SCIAC conference in assist to turnover ratio in both 2004 and 2005 and pacing the SCIAC in assists in 2004. He was 17th in the nation in Division III in assists for the 2004 season, averaging 5.9 per game for a Redlands team that averaged 115.0 points per game.
Alhadeff, a 6-4 guard, was also named all tournament at the Lee Fulmer Tournament in 2004 and at the Equinox Tournament (Philadelphia) in 2002.
And he recorded the first career triple-double in Redlands history against Chapman in 2003. Alhadeff finished the game with 14 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists. He also had no turnovers in the game.
Originally from Ontario, Alhadeff graduated from Redlands in 2005 with a B.A. in Sociology.
Alhadeff worked as a substitute teacher last year in the Inland Valley.
He is currently working toward his Masters Degree in physical education and Azusa Pacific University.
Alhadeff, who will turn 25 in January, resides in Tustin.
He has two sisters, including Allyson, who is an assistant coach for the Cal State Fullerton women's basketball team.
In addition to his duties with the men's basketball team, Alhadeff is also the equipment manager at Irvine Valley.