University of Pennsylvania Athletics

Career Coaching Honors and Highlights
665-236 (.738) Career Coaching Record
14 Conference Championships
20-time Conference Coach of the Year
Six 30-Win Seasons
21 20-Win Seasons
Fastest coach to reach 400 wins – at any NCAA level
Member of Father Judge Hall of Fame (2023 Induction)
Member of Holy Family Hall of Fame (2019 Induction)
Member of the CACC Hall of Fame (2016 Induction)
Member of Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame (2013 Induction)
One of just 10 active Division I head coaches with 650 career wins
Ninth among active Division I head coaches in wins (665)

Since 2009-10 at Penn
258-175 (.596) Overall Record at Penn
145-83 (.636) Record in Ivy League regular season games
3 NCAA Tournament Appearances
4 Ivy League Championships
3 Ivy League Players of the Year
5 Ivy League Defensive Players of the Year
7 Ivy League Rookies of the Year
33 All-Ivy honorees
22 All-Philadelphia Big 5 selections

Since being named the eighth head coach in program history on April 24, 2009, Mike McLaughlin has firmly established himself as one of the most respected and esteemed coaches in both the Ivy League and country while solidifying the Quakers as a nationally renowned program.
 
A four-time Philadelphia Big 5 Coach of the Year, McLaughlin has a career record of 665-236 (.738) and has posted 20 or more wins in 21 of his 29 seasons as a head coach, including six 30-win seasons. The Philadelphia native has won 14 conference titles, is a 20-time Conference Coach of the Year, won his 500th game as a head coach during the 2015-16 season and then his 600th during the 2019-20 campaign.
 
McLaughlin has built the Penn women’s basketball program into an Ivy League powerhouse. The Quakers won at least 20 games in seven consecutive seasons from 2013-14 to 2019-20, clinched four Ivy League championships, and have played in three NCAA Tournament (2014, 2016, 2017) while winning the program’s first two Big 5 titles in 2014-15 and 2017-18. Penn reached the postseason in a program-record eight straight seasons prior to the pandemic and is in the midst of the most successful stretch in program history. Penn qualified for the 2020 Ivy League Tournament as the No. 2 seed before its cancellation due to the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The Quakers returned to Ivy Madness in 2023 at Princeton, 2024 at Columbia, and 2025 at Brown, their fourth, fifth, and sixth appearances in the seven-year-old tournament; only Harvard (7) and Princeton (7) have appeared more than Penn.
 
McLaughlin is the only coach in the Ivy League to lead his team to at least 20 wins in seven of the last 10 seasons. 
 
Nine of McLaughlin’s recruiting classes have produced the Big 5 or Ivy League Rookie of the Year. Prior to his tenure, only one Penn player had ever earned Big 5 Rookie of the Year accolades, but five have done so under his watch.
 
Prior to Penn, McLaughlin enjoyed unprecedented success at NCAA Division II member Holy Family University, where in 14 seasons as head coach of the women’s basketball team he had a career equal to anyone who has coached the game. McLaughlin racked up an impressive record of 407 wins and 61 losses, a winning percentage of .870 which was the highest at any level of NCAA Basketball (men or women). Out of his 14 seasons as a head coach, McLaughlin was honored as the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) Coach of the Year 13 times.
 
McLaughlin’s teams won at least 25 games in each of his 14 years as Holy Family’s head coach. In six of those years (1998, 2000-03, 2008), the Tigers won 30 games, including a pair of 32-win seasons (1998 and 2008). Holy Family reached 29 wins three other times (1999, 2006, 2007).
 
McLaughlin was a two-year assistant on the women’s staff at Holy Family before taking the reins as its third head coach in 1995-96.
 
In 2008-09, McLaughlin won his 400th game as a head coach faster than any other women’s basketball coach in NCAA history, doing it in 459 games. The Division I record is held by Leon Barmore, who needed 463 games to reach the milestone at Louisiana Tech, while the Division III record is 464 games set by Nancy Fahey at Washington University (Mo.).
 
In the classroom at both Holy Family and Penn, every one of his four-year players have graduated. McLaughlin’s Holy Family program was rated the best in Division II by the College Bound Student Athletes (CBSA) guide on two occasions.
 
A graduate of Holy Family, McLaughlin received his bachelor’s degree in criminal justice. From his stellar playing career at Holy Family, he remains ninth all-time in scoring with 1,710 points and third with 755 assists. McLaughlin also remains the best three-pointer shooter to wear a Tiger uniform, connecting on 57.7 percent (161-of-279) of his attempts in his four seasons. He also holds the top two three-point shooting percentages for a season - in 1989 McLaughlin hit 59.3 percent of his shots, and in 1988 he was a 58.5-percent shooter.
 
McLaughlin also spent three seasons with the Washington Generals/Harlem Globetrotters, where he served as the Generals’ team captain as he played in more than 50 countries throughout the world.

McLaughlin lives with his wife Ginny, and has three children (Courtney, Michael and Kelsey), and one grandchild (Aiden).