Over the last 13 seasons X-Men Coach Steve Konchalski has led the StFX X-Men basketball program to the top of Canadian university basketball, capturing eight Atlantic conference titles along with back-to-back National championships in 2000 and 2001. The CIS Coach of the Year in 2001, Steve previously led the X-Men to the school’s first National title in 1993.
Over his 31 year career, Canada’s Coach K has accumulated 653 wins and led the team to 30 consecutive appearances in the Atlantic Conference Playoffs.

As a player, this native of Elmhurst, NY (Archbishop Molloy HS) also led Acadia University to a National title in 1965 as he was chosen tournament MVP. Internationally, Steve served for 16 years as Assistant Coach of Canada’s National Team (including three Olympic Games) and was Head Coach of Team Canada for four years. He has been inducted into the Acadia Sports Hall of Fame (as an athlete), the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame (as a builder) and the StFX Sports Hall of Fame. In 1999 he was honored as the inaugural recipient of the Frank Baldwin Memorial Award for dedication to basketball in Nova Scotia.  Steve coached the Nova Scotia Junior Men’s team for three summers, including the 2001 Canada Games squad. He has authored a book entitled Silverto Gold in which he chronicles the back-to-back National Championships that spanned his 25th year at StFX.

He and his wife, Charlene, have three children, Chris (24), a junior at UNBC, Julianne (22), a senior at Carleton, and Maria (18), in her first year at StFX.