Dan Heger came to Hardin-Simmons as a player for his senior
season in 1979 when he was captain and led the team to a No. 3
ranking in the Midwest Region as a Division I team. He remained
associated with the program on some level since then, even sending
players to Hardin-Simmons even when he was a coach at the high
school level.
Heger is now in his seventh season as the Cowboys’ head coach
and he is the school’s all-time wins leader with a record of
69-40-12. He has led the Cowboys to two American Southwest
Conference titles.
He and wife Cylinda, who is also a Hardin-Simmons graduate, have
been married for 27 years. They have two children Harrison, who is
17 and a senior at Wylie High School and Hannah, who is 15 and a
sophomore at Wylie.
Heger is committed to the positive difference a Hardin-Simmons
education can make in the life of a soccer player.
