Assistant Coach Ken Wallenius

Ken Wallenius enters his first full season as an assistant coach with the Laurentian Voyageurs basketball program, after joining the staff late in the 2006-07 campaign. Wallenius is no stranger to post secondary basketball having served as an assistant coach with Cambrian College in 1990-91 and again from 1997 to 2001.

At the secondary level Wallenius has coached all levels of basketball from midget to senior boys and girls. In 2004, Wallenius helped guide the Lockerby Composite School senior girls to the NOSSA ‘AA’ championship and an OFSSA quarter final berth. The native of Sudbury, Ontario has also guided other teams to the NOSSA ‘AAA’ semi-finals, NOSSA ‘AA” finals and city finals

From 1995 to 2001, Wallenius was part of Basketball Ontario’s Elite Development Program, as the North Region coach, reaching the semi-finals of the 1996 Ontario Summer Games. Wallenius also served as a camp coach at the 2001 Nike All-Canada Camp.

Wallenius currently resides in Sudbury, Ontario with wife Tricia, foster son Ryan and works as an Employment Outreach Worker at the Sudbury Action Centre for Youth.