COACHING STAFF
KEN
CHRIS
DEMPSEY
MOHR
Associate Head Coach
Assistant Coach
Moravian ‘83
Dempsey is entering his third season as Associate Head Coach of the Wildcat program. The veteran college coach, who joined the UNH program in June 2007, lends more than 20 years of successful experience to Coach Herrion’s staff. Dempsey spent the six seasons prior to joining the Wildcat program as the Associate Men’s Basketball Head Coach at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Dempsey also served as the University of North Carolina-Greensboro assistant coach from 1999-2001. Dempsey is familiar with the Northeast region, where he served as the assistant coach at Northeastern University from 1994-1999. Prior to joining the staff at Northeastern, Dempsey was an assistant coach at Monmouth (N.J.) University from 1984-94. The players he recruited earned 21 all-conference selections and helped the team to three conference championship game appearances. Dempsey is a proven, self-directed and high-profile coaching/recruiting professional with over 25 years of fulltime leadership experience at the aforementioned Division I institutions. Dempsey has a reputation as one of the top recruiters in the country by numerous national recruiting and coaching publications and boasts a 100-percent graduation rate among student-athletes recruited. Each of Dempsey’s past four recruiting classes at UMKC were ranked as one of the nation’s top 100 by Hoop Scoop Online. As recruiting coordinator for head coach Wayne Szoke at Monmouth for eight seasons, Dempsey’s recruiting efforts produced the school’s all-time Division I scoring co-leaders, seven of the school’s top-10 Division I scoring leaders and a GTE Academic all-American. Dempsey is also an executive member of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Board of Directors. Dempsey earned a bachelor’s degree in Journalism in 1983 from Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pa., where he was a four-year letter-winner in basketball and baseball. He also completed a master’s degree in Education from Monmouth in 1991. A native of Howell, N.J., he and his wife Bridget have two sons, Riley and Brody, and a daughter, Molly-Kate.
22
Merrimack ‘97 Mohr enters his fifth season at New Hampshire under head coach Bill Herrion. Mohr worked the previous six seasons as an assistant coach at Merrimack College with longtime head coach Bert Hammel. In his first year as an assistant at Merrimack, Mohr helped guide the Warriors to a 22-9 record, the Northeast10 Regular Season and Tournament Championships and the NCAA Division II Northeast Regionals during the 1999-2000 season. The Warriors posted an overall record of 69-73 and were 5-3 in postseason play while Mohr was on staff. Mohr was also a player at Merrimack from 1992-97. He finished with 879 career points. His senior year he averaged 10.5 points per game and was also a captain. Mohr was a two-time recipient of the Gregory Newman Award given to the ultimate team player. He also received the Ray Gallant award in 1995-96 and the Most Improved Player award in his second year in the program. Prior to coaching at Merrimack, Mohr taught high school English and was an assistant basketball coach for the varsity program at Carmel High School in Mundelein, Ill. Mohr is an active member of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC). Mohr lives in North Andover, Mass. with his wife, Meghan, and son, Cooper.
2009-10 New hampshire Basketball