Fatih Akser was hired as the University of Regina's women's basketball program's first full-time assistant coach prior to the 2016-17 season.
Coach Akser brings a tremendous wealth of knowledge to the position with high-level experience across the board. He played professional basketball in Turkey, Cyprus and France before he started his first coaching job at Fenerbahce Ulker Professional Basketball Club in Turkey. Since 2004, he has coached almost every level in Canada from CCAA to U SPORTS and club basketball with the Ontario Basketball to stints with provincial and national teams.
He completed the National Coaching Institute's (NCI Ontario) "Advanced Coaching Diploma" program in Toronto and is certified as a NCCP Level 4 basketball coach. He is also graduated from the FIBA Europe Coaching Certification program and is also a registered FIBA certified coach. He is a trained NCCP learning facilitator and learning evaluator for Canada Basketball. Â
At the national team level, Coach Fatih worked as a video coordinator for the Canadian senior men's team at the 2010 FIBA World Championship and 2011 FIBA Americas Olympic Qualifiers as well as for the U18 men's national team at the 2010 FIBA America Qualifiers, where they took home a bronze medal.
For the Elite Youth Development programs, he served as a head coach of Ontario Basketball’s U17 team which won three gold medals and a silver, including winning the 2013 Canada Summer Games in Quebec. In addition to that, he also worked as a head coach at Performance Enhancement Program (PEP), Centre for Performance (CP) in Toronto and Canada Basketball’s Targeted Athlete Strategy (TAS) youth development programs from 2006 to 2013.
Previously serving as an assistant coach for University of Waterloo, Ryerson University, University of Toronto and Brock University, he most recently was the head coach for George Brown College's women's basketball team.
He is originally from Istanbul, Turkey. He immigrated to Canada in 2004 and became a Canadian Citizen in 2008. Akser graduated from Eastern Mediterranean University with a Bachelor of Business Administration.
