Gregg Savage joined the Roadrunner family for the 2003–04 campaign following a successful three–year stint as an assistant coach at California junior college power Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa.
With Savage on the bench, the Pirates won their first–ever California Junior College championship in 2003. The Pirates finished the season at 31–6. They came back to win the title after finishing second in the Orange Empire Conference.
During his tenure at OCC, the Pirates went 72–31. His duties at Orange Coast included responsibility for team defense, perimeter player development and the team’s strength program.
He started his coaching career at Newport Harbor High School in 1996 as an assistant coach for the boys’ varsity team. Savage later coached the boys’ sophomore team and then became the head coach of the girls’ varsity squad. He led the girls’ team to a CIF playoff berth during his two seasons at the helm.
Savage’s success at the high school and junior college level has carried over to Bakersfield, where his teams have gone 69–19 (.784) with three NCAA Tournament bids in his three campaigns on the Roadrunner bench.
He has worked at several notable basketball camps during the off-season, including the University of Georgia Boy’s Basketball Camps, the Complete Player Basketball Camps and the Brent Barry Basketball Camp.
Savage earned his bachelor’s degree from Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, where he was a member of the cross country and track and field teams.
He recently earned his master’s degree in education at Concordia University in Irvine and he previously studied in the doctoral zoology program at Oregon State University.
While coaching at Orange Coast, Savage was a physical science teacher at Ensign Intermediate School in Newport Beach by day.
Savage and his wife, the former Mindy Wiblemo, married in August of 2003.
