After a successful 10 year run at the helm of the Notre Dame College Men’s Basketball program, Kevin Bille resigned, and on Wednesday, one of his former assistants, Tim Koenig was named the third head coach in the history of the program.
Koenig, a native of Richmond Heights, Ohio, spent six years as an assistant under Bille at NDC, from 2006-2012. He was hired in 2006 as a part time assistant coach, before becoming the Head JV coach in 2008, and became a full time assistant in 2009.
While an assistant at NDC, Koenig covered a lot of ground and assisted in nearly every aspect of the program, ranging from recruiting, to the development of student athletes on the floor, and off the floor as well as an academic advisor, and scouting.
"It is an honor to be given the opportunity to be the Head Men’s Basketball Coach at NDC,” said Koenig. “I want to continue to grow upon the hard work and foundation that was built by Kevin Bille, and I am looking forward to coming back to a place where I spent many great years under him.”
“My passion and love is to develop successful young men and focus on all aspects of the student-athlete. I want to help every member of the Men’s Basketball Program become better people, better students, and better athletes.”
Prior to joining the NDC coaching staff, Tim served as a Varsity Assistant Coach at University School from 2005-2006. Tim also served as the Varsity Assistant Coach at Cornerstone Christian Academy during the ’04-05 season.
A 2006 graduate of Case Western Reserve, Koenig excelled both on and off the court. He was a four year standout, and two-year captain on Case’s baseball team, and a two-year member of the Spartans basketball team as well.
During the 2012-13 season, Koenig served as an assistant coach at Lake Erie College, and was the Director of Marketing and Admissions at St. Peter Chanel High School.
"Tim Koenig is a coach with high character and ability,” said Scott Swain, Director of Athletics. “He was selected over a highly qualified group of applicants. I look forward to Tim beginning an exciting new chapter of Falcon Men’s Basketball. I am happy that he and his wife Nikki will be joining our Falcon Athletic family."
Koenig replaced Kevin Bille, who turned the men’s basketball program around in his 10-year tenure as the head coach. Arriving on College Road in 2003, Bille built up NDC’s program from the depths of a combined 9-49 mark in the program’s inaugural and “sophomore” campaigns over 2001-02 and 2002-03. NDC won 11 games over the next two seasons, before making major strikes, and went 19-13 overall and 8-2 in the AMC North Division in 2006-07 to earn its first-ever postseason berth.
Bille’s clubs enjoyed success over each of the next three seasons, capped by an incredible run in 2009-10, when they landed a second AMC North Division Championship, and another postseason berth, as they broke a school record, with 20 victories.
Bille resigned in May, to take a position as both athletic director, and head boys basketball coach at Fairless High School in Navarre, Ohio.
The 2013-14 season will be Notre Dame’s second as an NCAA-II member, but will be the institution’s first as a charter member of the Mountain East Conference.
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