Jeff Burkhamer became only the fourth head men's basketball coach in Lander history when he was hired on March 26, 2009.
For the previous seven years, Burkhamer led Peach Belt rival Armstrong Atlantic to a 134-73 record, including a 23-7 mark in 2008-09. His overall 14-year head coaching record is 310-148, a .676 winning percentage. Burkhamer led AASU to the NCAA national tournament four times.
Prior to coaching at AASU, Burkhamer was the associate head coach at NCAA Division I Marshall University, helping guide the Thundering Herd to a 70-44 record in the Mid-American Conference.
He was the head coach at Santa Fe Community College (1994-98) in Gainesville, Fla. where he led the Saints to two Mid-Florida Conference titles. He earned National Junior College Coach of the Year honors by College Sport Magazine in 1995-96 as the Saints set a school record 28 wins, including 21 straight to start the season. In four seasons, the Saints went 97-31 under Burkhamer.
He was the assistant coach for the Grand Rapids Hoops of the CBA, the developmental league of the NBA from 1991-94.
At North Greenville College (1989-91), Burkhamer posted an overall 58-10 record in two seasons and twice earned NJCAA Region 10 Coach of the Year.
He started his coaching career as an assistant coach at Winthrop University (1984-85), then moved to Charleston Southern (1985-87) and Morehead State (1987-89).
A graduate of Alderson-Broaddus (W.V.) College, Burkhamer earned his bachelor’s degree in 1984 and his master’s degree Morehead State in 1989. He was a four-year letterman for the Battlers in basketball and baseball and holds the school’s all-time assist mark with 646. He was inducted into the Battler Hall of Fame in 2001. He was honored by the Parkersburg News and Sentinel in 2004 as a member of their Silver Anniversary team, which included the top high school players for the past 25 years in the Parkersburg, W.V. area.
Burkhamer and his wife, Diane, have two daughters, Melissa, a Lander sophomore, and Lindsey, a freshman at Greenwood High School.
