Valley Christian

Awards/Accomplishments

• NFHS National Coach of the Year 2021-2022
• NFHS National Coach of the Year 2020-2021
• 750+ Wins
• 9 State Championships
• 3A Conference President
• Inducted into the Chandler Sports Hall of Fame
• 3A All-Conference Coach of the Year (2022-2023)
• 3A Region Coach of the Year (2018-2019, 2020-2021)

Personal Information

Greg Haagsma has been leading the Valley Christian Boys basketball program since 1997 and has been coaching at VCS since 1991. Coach Haagsma also serves VCS as the school’s athletic director and has been doing so for the last 10 years. In his tenure at VC, the boys basketball program has grown in to one of Arizona’s premier programs with over 750 wins, 9 state championships, numerous region titles, and dozens of players who were selected to all-region and all-state teams. Many former players have gone on to play at the collegiate level, some have become coaches at that level as well.

Coach Haagsma grew up in the Midwest in Pella, Iowa.  He attended Dordt College in Sioux Center, IA where he received a B.A. in Accounting and Business Education.  He also played baseball at Dordt for 4 years as a pitcher/first baseman.  He and his wife, Myrna, chose to move to Arizona after graduating from Dordt and have made their home here in the Phoenix area since 1991. They have been married since 1988 and have three children and a daughter-in-law: Brandon (’14) and wife Jenna, Taylor (’15), Shane (’20).  

“I love coaching basketball at Valley Christian as well as just being part of the Valley Christian community.  It has been my honor to work with, learn from, and grow with some of the best teachers, coaches, mentors, and administrators that I could have ever imagined.  I have also been extremely blessed to coach some wonderful young men and extremely talented players.  I have enjoyed and still enjoy helping them grow as basketball players but more importantly as young men of Christ. They have made the VCS basketball into the program that it is.”