Thomsen Named Head Basketball Coach

Zack Thomsen has been named FSU’s 15th head Men’s Basketball coach in program history and the second to take the helm as a member of Division II and the Mountain East Conference.

Thomsen comes to FSU having been the head coach at the State University of New York at Delhi for the past seven seasons. During his tenure, he compiled 123 total wins, including reaching at least 20 victories in each of the past three seasons. Under Thomsen’s direction this past year, SUNY Delhi won the NAC tournament to earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Division II tournament.

While at Delhi, Thomsen was named Conference Coach of the Year three times and helped oversee the school’s transition from USCAA and NAIA to full-fledged NCAA Division II members. His team won the NAC West Division title in each of the past two seasons, and six times his players have been selected as All-Americans.

Before his time at SUNY Delhi, he spent time at Shepherd University as an assistant coach, as well as time at Le Moyne College assistant coaching.

Thomsen began his collegiate coaching career as an assistant coach at
Onondaga Community College.

He earned his bachelor’s in athletic coaching education at West Virginia Institute of Technology and later got his master’s in general professional education at Le Moyne College.