Mike Jarvis is in his 20th season as a Division I men's basketball head coach and his first as coach of the Florida Atlantic University Owls. FAU President Frank T. Brogan and Athletics Director Craig Angelos announced Jarvis' appointment at a press conference in FAU's Tom Oxley Athletic Center on May 27, 2008.

Jarvis' accomplishments place him among the nation's elite college basketball coaches, having led three different programs into the NCAA Tournament during stops at Boston University (1985-90), George Washington University (1990-98) and St. John's University (1998-04).

Whether winning state titles during his high school coaching days in Massachusetts or taking St. John's to within one game of the Final Four in 1999, Jarvis has consistently delivered postseason tournament appearances, league titles and championships wherever he has been.

The New England native was a standout high school athlete at Rindge Technical High School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After graduating from Northeastern University, where he played both basketball and baseball in 1968, Jarvis went back to Ridge Technical to teach physical education while also serving as an assistant basketball coach at Northeastern from 1968-73, where he coached under Jim Calhoun in 1972-73.

Jarvis' assistant coaching career continued at Harvard University from 1973-79, learning from legendary Boston Celtics' great and then-Harvard head coach Tom Sanders, who was fresh off an eight-time NBA Championship playing career with the Celtics from 1960-73. Jarvis credits mentors such as Sanders, whose No. 16 jersey is retired by the Celtics, Calhoun, Hall of Famer Red Auerbach and Jarvis' coach at Northeastern, Dick Dukeshire, the Greek national team coach in 1979, for prepping him for a head coaching career that would begin at his high school alma mater in 1978.

At Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) - formally named Rindge Technical High School - Jarvis flourished as a young head coach, guiding the city's lone public high school to three-consecutive state titles (1979, `80 and `81), while compiling a near-perfect 77-1 record during that span. Jarvis' prep players at CRLS included Patrick Ewing, Rumeal Robinson and current George Washington head coach Karl Hobbs.

Jarvis remained at CRLS until Boston University (BU) offered him the opportunity to begin a collegiate head coaching career in 1985. Immediate success ensued when Jarvis guided the Terriers to a 21-10 record and a berth into the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) in his first season. He won two ECAC North Atlantic Conference Championships (1988 and '90) and made three postseason tournament appearances at BU. Jarvis became the program's all-time winning coach (101-51 record) and led the Terriers to the NCAA Tournament twice (1988 and `90). Prior to his arrival, the Terriers had gone to the "Big Dance" just two times in its 26-year history.

In 1990, Jarvis accepted his first coaching position outside the state of Massachusetts, taking over at George Washington University (GW) in Washington D.C. Jarvis immediately transformed GW into one of the nation' best teams, finishing 19-12 in his first season (1990-91) and earning an invitation into the NIT. Making his initial accomplishments at GW even more impressive was the fact that the Colonials were just one year removed from a 1-27 campaign in 1988-89. In his third season at GW, Jarvis led the Colonials to its first 21-win season in 38 years. That 1992-93 team qualified for the first of four NCAA Tournament appearances during Jarvis' tenure at GW and went on to advance into the tournament's Sweet 16. An 18-12 season and return trip to the NCAA in 1993-94 firmly positioned GW among the nation's top college programs.

Jarvis compiled a 152-90 record in eight consecutive winning seasons at GW, leading the Colonials to seven postseason tournament appearances and three 20-win seasons. During a record-setting final year in 1997-98, the Colonials would achieve a university-best national ranking of No. 17 by the Associated Press. Jarvis' knack for recruiting and developing national and international talent at GW resulted in 11 players scoring more than 1,000 points during their careers. He became just the second men's basketball coach in the program's history to be elected to the George Washington University Athletic Hall of Fame.

After outstanding tenures at BU and GW, the 13-year coaching veteran accepted the challenge of coaching a storied St. John's University program in Queens, New York that had enjoyed just one winning season in the five years prior to his appointment. That same season, Jarvis was elected president of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC).

Again success was immediate as Jarvis led The Red Storm to a 28-9 record in his first season at St. John's and his first appearance in an NCAA Regional Final - just one step away from the Final Four. From 1998-04, in six seasons (five complete), Jarvis went 110-61 at St. John's. Under his direction, The Red Storm won the BIG EAST Tournament Championship in 2000 and won the NIT Championship at Madison Square Garden in 2003.

Following his experience at St. John's, Jarvis moved to Boca Raton and embarked on a new career as a basketball analyst for ESPN and Yahoo. Since that time, he also has become a motivational speaker and launched an Internet broadcast service, `Jarvis TV,' that enables colleges and community organizations - such as churches - to stream live events and programming over the Internet.

FAU has offered Jarvis his fourth collegiate head coaching stop. Like Jarvis' rapid climb among the collegiate coaching ranks, FAU has made a rapid ascent from the program's first season in 1988-89. After just five years, FAU made the transition into Division I. One of just eight active coaches to have won 100-plus games at three different schools, Jarvis hopes to join Lefty Driesell as one of just two to have done so with four.

After one season as an Independent in 1994-95, its first at the Division I level, the Owls competed as a member of the Atlantic Sun Conference from 1995-2006. FAU won the league title in 2002 and qualified for the University's first NCAA Tournament appearance that same season. FAU moved into the Sun Belt Conference in 2006-07, a league that sent two teams to the NCAA Tournament in 2008, including one that advanced to the Sweet 16.

Jarvis and his wife, Connie, live in Boca Raton and have two adult children, Mike II and Dana Shaiyen, along with two grandchildren, Geoffrey and Ian.