Looking to build on his young-but-successful program, Ken Dory begins his third year as head coach to Concordia's men's and women's swim programs, while serving as the Eagles' Director of Aquatics.

At the 2009 NAIA National Championships, Dory's men's team finished in third place, just 30 points away from garnering a second-place finish, while the women earned a sixth-place mark.

The showings showed the quick improvement of Dory's programs, which finished seventh on the men's side and 10th on the women's at the National Championships in the first season of Eagles Aquatics.

His work as Aquatics Director also enabled the men's water polo team to finish second at the 2007 CWPA/NAIA National Invitational in its inaugural season and second in the 2008 CBU Fall Classic, which served as the decisive tournament on the season.

The women's water polo program has experienced the same results in its first two seasons, finishing as the NAIA's runner-up in the spring 2008 and 2009 seasons.

Dory first took the reigns as head coach for Irvine High School in 1989 and in the following years, led the school to 61 team championships, including 10 consecutive league championships from 1995-2004. His team won CIF Southern Section titles in 2000 and 2001 en route to a 2001 state championship.

Among several notable achievements at Irvine High School, Dory coached eventual Olympian Jason Lezak, who was a member of 400 medley relay and 400 freestyle relay squads that won gold and bronze medals, respectively, in the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece. Lezak, who qualified for the 2008 games in Beijing, China, with U.S. record with a 48:17 mark in the 100 free, also won gold in the 400 medley relay and silver in the 400 free relay in the 2000 games in Sydney, Australia.

His extensive coaching experience has also yielded numerous individual awards, including being named the Orange County Register Coach of the Year in 1998 and 2000 along with earning accolades as the Los Angeles Times Coach of the Year in 1998 and 2001 at the prep level. Dory was also named the Irvine Swim League Coach of the Year in 2005.

Dory, a member of the National Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association since 1992 and a member of the American Swimming Coaches Association since 1989, also served on the CIF Swimming Advisory Committee from 2003 to 2008 and was the Irvine Swim League Executive Board Coaches Commissioner in 2004 and 2005.

Dory, who has swam competitively as part of United States Masters Swimming since 1990, was a team captain at Cal State Northridge (1986-88), Orange Coast Community College (1984-85) and as a prep standout at Foothill High School (1982-83).

Dory earned his bachelor's from Cal State Northridge in psychology, graduating in 1989, and has since earned his teaching credential through National University (2004) and graduated from Concordia's master's in coaching and athletic administration program in 2008.

Dory and his wife, Jenny, live in Irvine and have four children, Erica (15), Logan (11), Kelly (8), and Sean (3).