Bio

Ken brings over 50 years of experience to our MSVU women’s program in player development, coaching and sport administration as well as experience playing through regional leagues at all levels. Ken played minor basketball at St Agnes and Canadian Martyrs before moving through Saint Pats, Saint Mary’s University JV and Nova Scotia Technical College programs in Halifax. He continued to play the Halifax Men’s Senior and Intermediate Leagues for 30 years after college and is a past President of the former Halifax Senior Men’s League.

Early in his coaching career, Ken coached at the SMU Camp of Champions followed by a decade coaching in the Senior/Intermediate Women’s leagues of that era. A large part of his coaching career then became focused on player development in minor basketball having coached A and AA level mini, bantam and midget girl’s, through midget and juvenile A and AAA boys. Over a few decades, Ken coached for most of the original metro programs including Saint Agnes, Osprey, Norwood, Canadian Martyrs as well as West Side Explosion.  His teams represented Nova Scotia twice at the Eastern Canadian Championships winning a Bronze medal after a 1 point overtime loss to Ontario in a semi-final matchup.

Through the late 1990’s Ken established and coordinated the King’s College spring and fall leagues for close to a decade, which, at their peak, provided developmental opportunities for 300 metro and regional junior high and high school players. He also helped initiate the St. Pat’s High School Spring League for mini and bantam girls and helped to coordinate and run numerous Metro Basketball and BNS minor championships and invitational tournaments.

Ken coached the Oxford School Junior High girl’s basketball team for a number of years, achieving multiple regional championships and a 68-0 record in the Citadel zone in his final 5 years with the program.  ollowing this, Ken was invited to coach the final year of the girl’s program at St. Pats High School, after which he accepted assistant positions with the Kings College Men’s Team and the MSVU Men’s programs before landing with the Mystics Women’s program, where he has coached for the past 11 years.

Ken also held multiple coaching and development positions in the Provincial Tennis Association as a past board member, Chairman of the Junior Development and Coaching Committees, and is a past president of the Association. He conducted travelling clinics throughout Nova Scotia for the association, was the Canada Games Coach in 81 (Gold medal) & 85, and is a former Head Tennis Pro at the Waegwoltic Club in Halifax. Ken was invited by Peter Burwash, to be an integral part of the first few years of development and founding of Peter Burwash International, a company that now trains and places teaching tennis professionals throughout the world. He left the organization to pursue his career as a Professional Engineer.

Ken has received numerous awards and recognition from association, school board, municipal, provincial, and federal levels for his volunteer and coaching efforts including the BNS Coaching Award and the 125 Anniversary Memorial Medal from the Government of Canada.