Jack Eisenmann, who spent the past nine years on the women's basketball staff at the University of Connecticut, is the newest addition to the Fordham women's basketball coaching staff, joining the squad in August of 2010.

"I am excited to work with Jack. He brings significant experience to our staff, having previously been a head coach and a member of the staff at UConn that won five national championships. His knowledge of the game and exposure to the highest level of Division I basketball will be an asset to our program," said head coach Cathy Andruzzi.

"I am thrilled to become a member of the Fordham University Women's Basketball Staff," said Eisenmann. "I have known Coach Andruzzi for eight years and have watched her build a program that seems poised to accomplish great things this season. I am very excited to be able to become a contributing assistant coach to a steadily improving program. I look forward to working with the entire staff and players. I am determined to add positive accomplishments to the program at this great academic/athletic institution known as Fordham University."

Eisenmann served as the Director of Women's Basketball Operations under head coach Geno Auriemma at UConn for the past nine years. He was a member of the staff that won back-to-back NCAA titles and that currently owns a 78-game winning streak. He also was on the national championship staff at UConn when the Huskies won three straight titles from 2002-04.

Prior to joining the UConn staff, Eisenmann spent 12 seasons as the head coach of the men's basketball program at the University of Ottawa. During his tenure at the University of Ottawa, the program enjoyed its most successful season in the history of the program since it started competing on the national level. The squad qualified for the 1993 Canadian National Championship by winning its first-ever Ontario Provincial Championship with an 88-48 upset over perennial national powerhouse, the University of Western Ontario. This victory earned the University of Ottawa a No. 7 ranking in the Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union Championship and a first-round meeting with No. 2 ranked University of Winnipeg Wesmen.

Eisenmann guided Ottawa to an upset of Wesmen and a No. 3 ranking in the final standings of the 1993 CIAU Championship, the highest ranking in the history of the program.

A native of Norristown, Pa., Eisenmann graduated from St. Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and went on to earn his Master's Degree in Social Sciences from the University of Ottawa in 1979. He played basketball for St. Mary's during the 1971-1972 season and continued his career at the University of Ottawa from 1976 to 1979. Upon graduating in 1979, Eisenmann began a 10-year career in the business world that culminated with a position as a vice president of human resources in the health care field.