Fairmont State University Athletics

Tim Koenig enters his sixth season as the Head Men's Basketball Coach at Fairmont State University in 2024-25. Koenig was named the university's 13^th head men's basketball coach on June 28, 2019.

Koenig, the 2019 Mountain East Conference Coach of the Year, arrived at Fairmont State after six years as head men's basketball coach at Notre Dame College (Ohio).

Fairmont State posted a record of 21-8 while going 13-7 in conference play for the 2023-24 season. The men's basketball team had three of its members named All-MEC with Zyon Dobbs leading the way as he was named First Team. Joining him in the postseason recognition were David Jolinder (Second Team) and Tommy Williams (Honorable Mention).

In 2022-23, Koenig led the Falcons to their fifth-consecutive NCAA Division II National Tournament appearance after a 24-8 overall record. Fairmont State was among eight schools in the country to receive a bid to the postseason tournament in each of the previous five seasons. As a team, the Falcons scored an average of 92.1 points per game, which was the fourth-highest average out of all Division II teams. The Fighting Falcons secured the most wins (24) in a single season since the 2016-17 national runner-up season under Koenig's watch.

Koenig coached a trio of All-MEC performers, highlighted by All-MEC First Team, All-MEC Tournament Team and NABC All-Region First Team standout Isaiah Sanders. Sanders was named to the 2023 NABC - Reese's Division II College All-Star Game and finished with a game-high 28 points in the event. George Mangas (All-MEC Second Team) and Zyon Dobbs (All-MEC Honorable Mention) also garnered postseason recognition.

During the 2021-22 season, Koenig guided Fairmont State to a record of 23-8 as the Falcons finished No. 24 in the final edition of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) National Poll. Zyon Dobbs, Isaiah Sanders, and Cole VonHandorf all received conferences honors as the Mountain East Conference announced the all-conference teams for the 2021-22 season. Sanders earned All-MEC First Team honors for the third year in a row while Dobbs and VonHandorf were both named to the All-MEC Second Team. Koenig and Fairmont State knocked off No. 8 West Liberty in West Liberty on January 8th, 100-97, as the Falcons scored 60 points in the second half to overcome a 15-point first-half deficit.

Koenig mentored Isaiah Sanders as he was named to the Bevo Francis Top 100 Watch List in March 2022 and was named to the NABC Division II All-Atlantic First Team. Sanders, a 6-5 guard from Sicklerville, N.J., garnered All-Atlantic Region Second Team honors from the Division II Conference Commissioner's Association (D2CCA) as he led the Falcons in scoring with 21.2 points per game.

During the 2020-21 season, Koenig led the Falcons to a 15-5 overall record and won the program's first conference tournament championship since 1984. Koenig and the Falcons knocked-off a pair of nationally ranked teams on their way to tournament crown - topping No. 12 Charleston in the semifinals and No. 19 West Liberty in the finals. The Falcons also qualified for the NCAA Atlantic Regional for the seventh time in the last nine seasons. Standouts Dale Bonner and Isaiah Sanders were both first team All-MEC selections and were later recognized as honorees on the NABC All-District Team.

In his first season leading the Fairmont State program, Koenig led the Falcons to a 23-7 overall record and the No. 3 seed in the MEC Men's Basketball Tournament. The Falcons advanced to the MEC Tournament semifinals and also earned the No. 5 seed in the 2020 NCAA Division II Atlantic Regional - the program's sixth NCAA Tournament bid in the last eight seasons.

Koenig led the team to a 22-6 record in the 2019-20 regular season, which is the best regular season finish for the first-year head coach in the program's history. The 23 total wins during the season also tied Jarrod Calhoun for the most wins by a first-year head coach at Fairmont State.

Three Fairmont State players earned MEC postseason honors in 2019-20, including first team selections Dale Bonner and Cole VonHandorf. Kenzie Melko-Marshall also earned All-MEC second team honors. Bonner was also a second team All-Atlantic Region selection and was named the MEC Freshman of the Year.
 
"I am thrilled to welcome Tim Koenig to Fairmont State University as our head men's basketball coach," said then-Director of Athletics Chad Fowler. "Tim has great energy and his love and passion for the game of basketball is exactly what we were looking for in our next head coach.
 
"Our men's basketball program has had tremendous success under Jarrod Calhoun and Joe Mazzulla the past seven seasons and we look forward to that success continuing this season and in the future under Tim Koenig's leadership," Fowler added.
 
Koenig was named the MEC Coach of the Year after leading NDC to a historic season in 2018-19. The Falcons went 20-8 and earned the No. 3 seed in the MEC Men's Basketball Tournament before earning the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament by winning the league's tournament championship. Notre Dame topped a pair of NCAA Tournament teams to win the MEC Championship with victories over Fairmont State and West Liberty in the semifinals and finals, respectively.
 
The 2018-19 season marked the first-ever 20-win regular season in Notre Dame College history, and the Falcons also set a record for MEC wins in a season with 16. Koenig also led the program to its first ever conference tournament championship and first-ever NCAA Tournament bid this past winter.
 
"I would like to thank President Mirta Martin, Vice President Tim McNeely, Director of Athletics Chad Fowler, members of the board of governors and all supporters of the men's basketball program for believing in me and giving me this opportunity," said Koenig. "It's always a tough decision to move your family from where you grew up, but when this job was offered to me, my family and I knew it was an opportunity I couldn't pass up.
 
"Coach Joe Retton is the measuring stick for coaches at all levels of college basketball and I look forward to meeting and working with the current roster to keep this program at the elite level that Jerrod Calhoun and Joe Mazzulla raised it to over the past seven seasons," Koenig added.
 
Koenig has coached the only All-Americans in Notre Dame College history, which includes Will Vorhees in 2019 and Tyree Gaiter in 2016. In fact, Vorhees earned D2CCA Atlantic Region Player of the Year and Mountain East Conference Player of the Year honors following the 2018-19 season. In all, Koenig has coached two All-Americans, 11 All-MEC picks, and five All-Region selections.
 
Prior to an injury-prone campaign in 2017-18, the Falcons showed great improvement under Koenig's leadership. After 11 wins in his inaugural season, the Falcons recorded 16 or more wins in years two through four under his direction (2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17).
 
Koenig led NDC to a 20-win season during 2015-16 with a record of 21-11. That season, Notre Dame defeated a pair of top-five nationally ranked opponents and advanced to the program's first-ever Mountain East Conference Championship Game before eventually falling to Concord in the finals.
 
Koenig began his collegiate coaching career at Notre Dame College as a graduate assistant from 2006 to 2008 before being promoted to Assistant Men's Basketball Coach and serving in the role from 2009 to 2011. Prior to becoming head coach at NDC, Koenig spent a year away from the program – serving as Director of Marketing and Admissions at St. Peter Chanel High School. He was also an assistant coach at Lake Erie College during 2012.
 
As a collegiate athlete, Koenig played baseball and basketball at Case Western Reserve University. While at Case, he was captain of the baseball team his junior and senior seasons. He was named second team All-UAA in 2006.
 
Koenig graduated from Case Western Reserve University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology in 2006. In 2009, Koenig graduated from the Teacher Education TEEL program at Notre Dame College, which allows him to teach grades 7-12 Biology and Chemistry.
 
Koenig and his wife Nicole have three children – Kyle (7), Gabriella (3) and Christopher (1). The family resides in Fairmont.
 

Year	School	Overall	Conf.	Notes
2013-14	Notre Dame	11-19	8-14
2014-15	Notre Dame	16-14	11-11
2015-16	Notre Dame	21-11	12-10	MEC Tournament Runner-up
2016-17	Notre Dame	16-13	10-12
2017-18	Notre Dame	6-22	4-18
2018-19	Notre Dame	23-9	16-6	NCAA Tournament, MEC Tournament Champions
2019-20	Fairmont State	23-7	16-6	NCAA Tournament
2020-21	Fairmont State	15-5	12-4	NCAA Tournament, MEC Tournament Champions
2021-22	Fairmont State	23-8	16-6	NCAA Tournament
2022-23	Fairmont State	24-8	17-5	NCAA Tournament
2023-24	Fairmont State	21-8	13-7
Record (at FSU)		106-36 (.746)	74-28 (.725)
Career Record		199-124 (.616)	135-99 (.577)