Hector Blaise was named head women's basketball coach at Queensborough Community College in August 2021. He arrives in Bayside after serving as an assistant girls varsity basketball coach at Long Island Lutheran High School for the 2020-21 season. Prior to his stint at LuHi, he was an assistant women's basketball coach at NCAA Division II Molloy College.
Coach Blaise comes to Queensborough from LuHi, where he spent one season as an assistant coach for a national powerhouse in girls basketball. Though they had an abbreviated season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he assisted in the development of UCLA commit Paris Clark, and Adelphi University commit Sydney Rosenoff.
Prior to LuHi, Blaise was an assistant coach at Molloy College, working under area coaching legend, Joe Pellicane. In his four seasons at Molloy, the Lions won the 2017 East Coast Conference Championship and made two NCAA Tournament appearances, including a run to the 2017 Sweet Sixteen. They were also selected to participate in the 2020 NCAA Tournament, but the tournament that year was cancelled by the NCAA due to the pandemic. Coach Blaise started as a coaching intern for the 2016-17 season and was promoted to assistant coach the following year.
Blaise began his career in women's basketball in 2013 as a student team manager at NCAA Division I St. John's University under current head coach, Joe Tartamella. In his three seasons with the Red Storm, he was part of a program that enjoyed historic success, which concluded in winning the 2016 Big East Conference Championship and advancing to the NCAA Tournament. The Red Storm also advanced to the Sweet Sixteen of the 2015 NIT Tournament, and well as earning a bid to the 2014 NCAA Tournament and advancing to the second round. The Red Storm won 23 games in each of the three seasons in which he was on the bench, and two players were selected in the 2016 WNBA Draft.
Blaise has worked numerous basketball camps including the New York Knicks Junior Knicks Camp, the Miami Heat Basketball Camp, and the Long Island Lutheran Basketball Camp.
He received his bachelor's degree from St. John's University in 2017, and his MBA from Molloy College in 2019.
