WINDSOR, Ont. - The St. Clair College Athletic Department is pleased to announce Ken Ambrose the new Women’s Basketball Head Coach. Ambrose fills the vacancy left after Jimmy Parsons resigned following the season for personal reasons. He was introduced at a Press Conference in front of media, staff and students earlier today at the Main campus of St. Clair and vowed that although he had big shoes to fill he is ready for the challenge.

Ambrose who is a retired teacher comes to the Saints with more than 40 years of basketball coaching experience at the elementary, high school, club, regional and provincial level with ties to both the Windsor area and the other end of Essex County in Leamington. He was both the founder and President of the Riverside Falcon Basketball Association and the Leamington Cougars Basketball Association. Ambrose has served with the Ontario Basketball Association on the Ranking and Seeding Committee and coached at the MDP level with the St. Clair Region team also working with that team at the 2010 Ontario Summer Games in Sudbury.

After thanking Jimmy Parsons for his six years of service to the program Athletic Coordinator Ted Beale stated, “It takes a special kind of person to meet this challenge and we believe that we have found just that in Coach Ambrose. He has the experience and the time along with the traits that we believe will translate well to leading our program.”

See a list below of highlights of Ken Ambrose’s basketball coaching career.

COACHING EXPERIENCE

1970 – 2002 – Elementary school basketball
1987 – 2000 - Atom level – OBA Riverside Falcons
2003 – 2006 - Junior boys and junior girls – Cardinal Carter Secondary School
2006 – 2008 – Junior boys and senior girls – Cardinal Carter Secondary School
2003 – 2007 - Midget girls – Ontario Basketball – Leamington Cougars
2008 – Major Midget boys – Ontario Basketball – Leamington Cougars (gold D5)
2008 – Senior boys – Leamington District High School (Tier 2 Champions)
2009 – Juvenile boys – Ontario Basketball – (D4 – final four)
2009 – MDP – St. Clair Region – Ontario Basketball
2009 – Senior boys – Leamington District High School
2010 – Junior boys – Ontario Basketball – Leamington Cougars (gold D4)
2010 – St. Clair Region – Ontario Basketball – Ontario Summer Games – Sudbury
2010 – Senior boys – Leamington District High School
2011 – Major midget – Ontario Basketball – Leamington Cougars

RELATED BASKETBALL EXPERIENCES

1987 – Founder and President - Riverside Falcon Basketball
1992 – 1996 – Ranking and Seeding Committee – Ontario Basketball Association
2003 – Founder and President – Leamington Cougar Basketball Association

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Source: St. Clair College