Read about Mike Mahoney in the February 2015 issue of CoSIDA Digest!
Mike Mahoney has been the Director of Athletic Communications at Penn since September 2005.
During his time at Penn, Mahoney has worked with the Quakers’ men’s basketball program including three teams that won Ivy League titles and made the NCAA Tournament (2006, 2007, 2018). A volunteer for numerous NCAA events across a host of sports, he was the media coordinator when Penn hosted the 2006 NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Championships at Lincoln Financial Field, the 2007 NCAA Women’s Lacrosse Championship on campus at Franklin Field, and the East Regional Sweet 16/Elite Eight games for the 2022 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament at the Wells Fargo Center. He also helped oversee media coordination for the 2025 NCAA Wrestling Championships at the Wells Fargo Center, which Penn co-hosted with Drexel University.
Mahoney came to Penn from Northwestern University, where he spent six years on the Athletic Media Services staff. While in Evanston, Mahoney worked with the Wildcats’ women’s lacrosse program and was the media contact when they won their first NCAA championship in 2005, becoming the first non-Eastern program in the sport’s history to win the national title. He also spent two years working with Northwestern’s football program—including the 2000 team which won a share of the Big Ten title and played in the Alamo Bowl—and five years as media coordinator for the Wildcats’ men’s basketball program.
Mahoney’s first full-time job in sports information came at his alma mater, Dartmouth College, where he was the assistant director for six years. Prior to that, he spent one year as a Public Information Intern at the Ivy League office in Princeton, N.J. Mahoney found the profession as a Dartmouth undergraduate under Kathy Slattery, and also gained experience during his student days as an intern with USA Basketball in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Mahoney was the 2017 recipient of ECAC-SIDA’s Irving T. Marsh Award (University Division). That award is presented annually to an ECAC-SIDA (now East-Comm) member who, in the opinion of the membership and executive board, has exhibited excellence in the field of sports information.
A member of College Sports Communicators (formerly College Sports Information Directors of America, or CoSIDA) for more than a quarter-century, Mahoney was honored with the organization's President's Award in 2025. He is an 18-time winner in CSC's Fred Stabley Writing Contest, including four stories that were deemed best in the nation, and a member of the organization’s Academic All-America Core Committee as well as chair of its Division 1 Cabinet. Locally, Mahoney serves as President of the Philadelphia Sports Information Directors (Philly-SIDA). In that position, he oversees all aspects of the organization’s 25-team Academic All-Area program and hosts its monthly “First Monday” meetings during the school year.
A New Hampshire native, Mahoney went to Exeter AREA High School and then Phillips Exeter Academy before attending Dartmouth College, where he earned a degree in English. In May 2017, he completed his Master’s degree through Ohio University’s renowned Professional Master of Sports Administration (PMSA) program.
