Thank you for your continued warm and passionate support.
We would like to inform you that the Akita Northern Happinets have recently reached an agreement with head coach Maeda Kenzo for the 2025-26 season.
[Head Coach]Maeda Kenzo
■Date of birth: June 27, 1982
■Birthplace: Osaka Prefecture
■Research: Daishoku Gakuen
→ Osaka Foreign Language College
→ Bellevue University (Nebraska, USA)
→ Transferred to the University of Nebraska, Carney (Nebraska, USA)
→ Human Academy Basketball College Assistant Coach (2007-08)
→ Takamatsu Five Arrows (current Kagawa Five Arrows) assistant coach (2008-11)
→ Takamatsu Five Arrows Head Coach (2011-15)
→ Akita Northern Happinets Assistant Coach (2015-19) *
*JBA Elite Coach Education Project Participation (1st class) (2018-19)
→ Akita Northern Happinets Head Coach (2019-)
[Coach license]
JBA certified S-class coach license obtained (July 2016)
【Representative Activities】
Support Coach and Interpreter for the Japanese Men’s Basketball Team (2018)
Assistant Coach of the Japanese Men’s Basketball Team (2021)
His own comment
I am extremely honored to be able to enter my seventh season as a head coach.
It was thanks to the support of President Mizuno, the club and boosters that I was able to get to this point. We would like to express our sincere gratitude.
We will do our best to coach our team and fight for victory.
The team will work together to deliver exciting plays to everyone.
I feel that it is also an important mission to liven up Akita’s region by winning the team and grow together with the local community.
We will do our best to compete on behalf of Akita through basketball and create a team that everyone can be proud of.
Let’s fight together to make this season special for us.
We look forward to working with you this season too!
