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Kirk Martin

Head Women's Basketball Coach

937-766-4127 or e-mail Coach Martin

Kirk Martin is in his seventh season as head women's basketball coach at Cedarville University and has built the Lady Jackets into one of the top NAIA programs in the country. His teams have averaged 30 wins per season during his tenure.

Martin has guided CU to five straight NAIA Division II national tournament appearances including back-to-back runner-up finishes in 2004 and 2005. The Jackets sport a 14-5 record at the event with a Final Four achievement in 2007, an Elite Eight effort in 2006 and a Sweet 16 showing in their initial appearance in 2003.

Martin's club owns the last five American Mideast Conference titles with an 86-4 record during that timespan. CU ran off three straight undefeated league campaigns in the AMC South Division from 2003 through 2006 which included a conference-record 72-game winning streak.

Cedarville was rated No. 5 in the final 2006-07 NAIA Division II national poll en route to a 27-7 record. They held down the No. 1 position in 2005-06 which was the second straight year that the Lady Jackets accomplished the feat. They rolled to a 29-4 record overall which included a 19-game winning streak.

The Lady Jackets nearly met their ultimate goal of a national title in 2004-05 while posting a 35-2 record. Other highlights that season included an NAIA No. 1 ranking for the final six weeks of the season, a 22-game winning streak, and a second straight 18-0 run through the AMC South Division.

Martin's 2003-04 ball club produced a memorable campaign while being ranked as high as No. 2 in NAIA Division II. Among the team's many achievements were setting a school record for the most wins in a season with a 35-3 record, rolling to a perfect 18-0 league mark, and assembling a school-record 23-game winning streak.

Cedarville had a 31-3 overall record in the 2002-03 season, posted a 21-game winning streak, claimed the AMC South Division with a 17-1 mark, and won the inaugural AMC championship game. The Jackets were ranked as high as No. 3 in the country and qualified for the NAIA Division II national tournament for the first time in school history where the team advanced to the Sweet 16.

Martin took over the coaching reigns at his alma mater in 2001-02 and promptly guided Cedarville to a 23-10 record - at the time a school record for the most wins in a single season. The Jackets posted a 15-5 mark to finish 4th in the 19-team American Mideast Conference. They were the only league school to beat the top three teams in the standings and all three were ranked in the NAIA Division II Top 25. Cedarville qualified for the AMC Tournament and advanced to the semifinals.

Martin came to Cedarville after developing Southeastern High School into one of Ohio's elite Division IV girls' basketball programs. He brought with him an impressive list of credentials produced at a school where he was employed since graduating from Cedarville College in 1976.

Martin coached Southeastern, located just eight miles away in South Charleston, Ohio, to a 297-34 record for a .897 winning percentage during a coaching career that spanned 1986-97 and 1999-2001. He led the Trojans to the Ohio Division IV state championship in 1996, one state runner-up finish, and to 11 Kenton Trace Conference championships including ten straight. Southeastern assembled a 162-game KTC winning streak, won all 11 district title games they ever played in, and advanced to the Division IV Sweet 16 in 11 of the last 12 years.

Martin never had a losing season at Southeastern and earned numerous honors for his team's accomplishments. He was tabbed state Coach of the Year in 1989, was twice named Southwest District Coach of the Year, was a four-time District 9 Coach of the Year, and was a six-time Clark County Coach of the Year. He was inducted into the Cedarville University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1998 for his coaching accomplishments.

Martin serves as an assistant professor in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science at Cedarville. He earned his master's degree in Educational Administration from the University of Dayton in 1982.

Kirk and his wife, Vicki, reside in Springfield. The Martins have three children: older daughter, Amy Fourman, who is a 2002 graduate of the University and a former Lady Jacket volleyball and basketball player, resides in Fairborn, Ohio with her husband, Aaron, along with their daughter; younger daughter, Kelly Mangin, resides in Beavercreek, Ohio with her husband, Bryan; and son, Brent, is a senior at the University and a member of the Yellow Jacket tennis team.

The Martin File