Storm Men's Basketball Camps
Camp Staff

Charles Zanders
Head Coach

Charles Zanders became the 22nd head coach of the Simpson men's basketball program on April 9, 2010. Zanders joined the Storm in the summer of 2009 after a highly successful six-year head coaching career at Des Moines Hoover High School. Zanders served as the assistant varsity and head junior varsity coach on Bruce Wilson’s staff for the 2009-10 season, while also contributing as an academic liaison for the athletic department and a diversity recruiter in the admissions department.

While at Hoover, Zanders compiled a career record of 100-39 in his six seasons, leading the Huskies to a Class 4A Iowa State Championship in 2006. Zanders earned the Iowa State Basketball Coaches Association Coach of the Year honors after Hoover’s perfect 26-0 run to the title, the first Des Moines public school to win a state basketball championship since 1978. Zanders played his prep basketball at Hoover before going to Iowa Central Community College. He finished his playing career at Grandview College.

Zanders completed a bachelor’s degree in education from Simpson in 2008 before earning a master’s degree from Graceland University in 2009. Zanders, wife Linda, and their two sons – Austin (19) and Kellen (14) – reside in Des Moines.