Ken Niumatalolo
Niumatalolo at a White House Rose Garden ceremony, April 2008
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| Sport(s) | Football |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Navy |
| Conference | The American |
| Record | 77–42 |
| Annual salary | $1.6 Million |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
May 8, 1965 Laie, Hawaii |
| Playing career | |
| 1987–1989 | Hawaii |
| Position(s) | Quarterback |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1990–1994 | Hawaii (GA) |
| 1995–1996 | Navy (RB) |
| 1997–1998 | Navy (OC/QB) |
| 1999–2001 | UNLV (TE/ST) |
| 2002–2007 | Navy (AHC/OL) |
| 2007–present | Navy |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 77–42 |
| Bowls | 4–5 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 2x The American West Division (2015–16) | |
| Awards | |
| The American Co-Coach of the Year (2015) The American Coach of the Year (2016) |
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Kenneth Va'a Niumatalolo (born May 8, 1965) is an American football coach and former player. He has been the head football coach at the United States Naval Academy since 2007. Niumatalolo played college football at the University of Hawaiʻi. As a quarterback he led the then-Rainbows to their first postseason bowl game in 1989. Niumatalolo is the second person of Polynesian descent to be named head coach of a NCAA Division I FBS college football program and the first ethnic Samoan collegiate head coach on any level. Niumatalolo was inducted into the Polynesian Football Hall of Fame on January 23, 2014.
Ken Niumatalolo is the son of parents who were both born in American Samoa, Simi and Lamala Niumatalolo. His father, Simi, retired from the U.S. Coast Guard.
Niumatalolo was a star in both football and basketball at Radford High School in Honolulu, graduating in 1983. He went on to play at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, eventually becoming the Rainbows (now the Rainbow Warriors) starting quarterback after serving for two years as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in the California Ventura Mission. He served as a Spanish-speaking missionary. At the time, the mission covered Ventura County, California and extended northward to take in the greater Bakersfield, California area. During his time with the Rainbows, he ran an option-oriented offense under the direction of Paul Johnson, who was then the offensive coordinator.
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