2010-11 Women's Basketball
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2010-11 Women's Basketball Coaches
Jenny Hansen - Head Coach - 3rd Season
Head Coach
At the outset of her third year as head coach for Concordia women's basketball, Jenny Hansen will look to continue the improvement that started with the Eagles' best performance in three seasons in her 2009 debut.
Hansen's Eagles continued to improve in 2010, when they qualified the Golden State Athletic Conference Postseason Basketball Tournament to end a two-year drought.
Hansen is in her first assignment as a collegiate head coach, and spent seven years as an assistant coach at Concordia before being named to the program's helm in the spring of 2008.
Hansen, a 2001 graduate of Concordia, started her coaching career under current Associate Athletic Director Greg Dinneen, who spent seven years at the program's helm before accepting his present post.
The 2001-02 team finished with 21 wins, a total that has not been reached since, in Hansen's first year on the staff. Hansen served as Dinneen's assistant until the 2004-05 season, when Todd Corman took the program's reigns. She then served as Corman's assistant for the subsequent four seasons, leading to her appointment as head coach.
Hansen, who has also worked in the sports information office as assistant director, was a team captain during her two seasons as a player on the Eagles' squad. In 65 games, Hansen averaged 7.4 points per game and was named the team's Most Valuable Defensive Player in both campaigns.
Prior to her career at Concordia, Hansen played her freshman and sophomore seasons at Clackamas Community College (Ore.
Hansen played hoops at Foothill High School in Bakersfield
An English major as an undergraduate, Hansen earned her master's in coaching and athletic administration from Concordia in 2008.
Hansen is single and lives in Irvine
Joial Griffith - Assistant Coach - 2nd Season
Assistant Coach
Joial Griffith
(2005-07), averaging 4.5 points and 2.1 assists in 46 games.
Most recently, Griffith was an assistant coach at Mendocino College in Ukiah , Calif.
Prior to her two-year career at Concordia, in which the Eagles made the GSAC Playoff round both seasons, Griffith played at Fullerton College
Currently enrolled in the Master's of Coaching and Athletics Administration program at Concordia, Griffith is single and lives in Pomona
Chris Guild - Assistant Coach - 2nd Season
Assistant Coach
Chris Guild joins the coaching staff for his second year, and serves as head coach for the junior varsity squad.
A graduate of Concordia (class of 2000), Guild has built a stout résumé as a youth sports director, and is currently pursuing a graduate degree in Concordia's Master's of
Coaching and Athletic Administration program.
After graduating with his bachelor's in liberal arts, Guild began working for Skyhawks Sports Academy , a national organization based in Spokane , Wash
Guild also helped start and manage TriFytt Sports, a similar youth sports program that now covers all of Southern California .
A four-year member of Concordia's track and field team, Guild ran on a sprint medley team that posted a standing school indoor record of 3:37.33 in 1999.
He was also on a pair of outdoor relay teams whose marks have yet to be broken, the outdoor sprint medley (3:34.46) and the distance medley (10:27.43).
As a basketball player, Guild played on Concordia's junior varsity team for one year, and traveled with another team that participated in a tournament in Australia
Guild is single and lives in Irvine
Amir Law - Assistant Coach - 3rd Season
Assistant Coach
Amir Law, a four-year athlete at Concordia, begins his third year as the top assistant coach for the women's basketball program
In addition to his experience on the Eagles coaching staff, the 2001 graduate brings in three years of coaching experience at local Irvine High School
Law had previously started his own business development firm, at which he served as president, from 2001-05. During that time, he was also acting as a director and manager for an additional consultation firm, until accepting a similar position at Select University Technologies.
In 1999, Law played on the Concordia team that advanced all the way to the NAIA's Elite Eight before falling to eventual champion Life Bible College (Ga.
In addition to his bachelor's in English, which he earned from Concordia in 2001, Law also earned a master's in business administration from Concordia in 2005. He then obtained a second master's degree in organization leadership and development from Gonzaga University
Law is currently pursuing a third master's degree in coaching and athletics administration at Concordia. He currently teaches an information systems undergraduate course at CUI.
Law is single and lives in Newport Beach
