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2 LAFAYETTE LEOPARDS FRAN O HANLON HEAD COACH Full Name: Francis Brian O Hanlon.. Hometown: Philadelphia, Pa. Birthdate: August 24, 1948 Spouse: Nancy (Callery) O Hanlon Children: Timothy (14), Grace (13) High School: St. Thomas More College: Villanova University 70 Coaching Career: and Head Men s Coach, Israel Professional League Assistant Women s Coach, Temple University Head Boy s Coach, Monsignor Bonner H.S Assistant Men s Coach, Univ. of Pennsylvania 1995-Present Head Men s Coach, Lafayette College FRAN O HANLON, the longest tenured Patriot League head coach, enters his 14th season on College Hill. He led the squad to exceed its win total from the previous three seasons and double their victories against Division I opponents with a overall record. O Hanlon also mentored his third Patriot League Men s Basketball Scholar Athlete of the Year, in Matt Betley 08. In 2007, O Hanlon joined Kim Anderson of Central Missouri and Steve Rider of Embry-Riddle as a court coach for the 2007 USA Basketball Pan American Games Team Trails. Trials were conducted for the Pan- American Games in July before the final team continued training until its departure for the games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Lafayette welcomed its first class of scholarship student-athletes in the season, placing O Hanlon and the Leopard program in the midst of a mission to return Lafayette to the Patriot League s upper echelon. It has not been a short or easy trip, but it is a road that is remarkably familiar to O Hanlon who built the program into a conference power in the late 1990 s prior to the Patriot League s change in its financial aid policy. In the final three years of the decade, O Hanlon s teams won three Patriot League titles and made two NCAA Tournament appearances while he earned two Patriot League Coach of the Year awards. O Hanlon took over a non-scholarship program on March 13, 1995, and immediately began building. His first season on College Hill showed a five-win improvement just one season after he inherited a team that posted a 2-25 mark in Then, in the Leopards won 11 games, reaching the double-digit win total for the first time since the season. The team success and personal accolades began to mount in , as O Hanlon won his first Patriot League Coach of the Year honor. His squad collected 19 wins, then the most in eight seasons, and won a share of the regular-season title, but fell one game short of the NCAA Tournament. 32

3 In O Hanlon guided Lafayette to a berth into the NCAA Tournament, a 22-8 record, its second-straight Patriot League regular-season title and its first-ever Patriot League Tournament championship. The Leopards allowed O Hanlon s true leadership ability to shine, as he was confronted with the loss of preseason Player of the Year Stefan Ciosici for the entire season and the loss of Rookie of the Year Tyson Whitfield for seven games in the middle of the conference schedule. O Hanlon never flinched, and his peers voted him Patriot League Coach of the Year for the second-straight season, the first ever league coach to be awarded the honor in consecutive seasons. In , O Hanlon steered Lafayette to the most wins ever in the program s history with 24. The Leopards captured their third straight-patriot League regular-season title and advanced to NCAA Tournament for the second year in a row. Injuries spoiled O Hanlon s plans in , as two key players missed significant stretches in a campaign. Three players earned All-Patriot League honors. The season reinforced O Hanlon s ability to get the most out of his players. He guided a team picked to finish seventh in the preseason poll to a third-place finish in conference action. The Leopards advanced to the Patriot League Tournament semifinals. Also, in , O Hanlon recorded his 100th career win on Dec. 19. In , O Hanlon coached an overachieving squad to the semifinals of the Patriot League Tournament for the second straight season. The strong finish to the season followed a non-conference road win over Massachusetts in December. During the season, he was also honored with the Patriot League s Sportsmanship Award. During the season, he guided a senior-laden squad to an record and an undefeated 7-0 clip through the first round of Patriot League play. The Leopards also registered non-conference wins over La Salle, Drexel and Princeton. In , O Hanlon oversaw a youthful Leopard team that played a demanding schedule which featured visits to Georgia Tech and Louisville and ended with a 9-19 record, including a season-opening win at Atlantic 10 foe Duquesne. Lafayette s progress was hampered by injuries and slowed by its youth, in Two starters in the backcourt missed the majority of the season due to injury, and Lafayette managed a fifth-place conference finish. When O Hanlon came to Lafayette in 1995, he brought with him a winning pedigree from the University of Pennsylvania where he was an assistant coach under current Temple head coach Fran Dunphy for six seasons. With his assistance, the Quakers flourished from , earning three consecutive NCAA Tournament berths while recording a perfect 42-0 record in Ivy League play. Prior to joining the Penn staff, O Hanlon spent three seasons as the head boy s coach at Monsignor Bonner High School in Drexel Hill, Pa. He led Bonner to the Philadelphia Catholic League Tournament in each of his three seasons, winning the title in the (continued on page 34) 33

4 LAFAYETTE LEOPARDS (continued from page 33) 88 season. A two-time Catholic League Coach of the Year, he compiled an overall record of at Bonner. Basketball has taken O Hanlon to Scandinavia, South America and the Middle East. During the and seasons, he served as head men s coach of two entries (Hapoel Haifa & Maccabi Haifa) in the Israel Professional League, and was twice tabbed with Coach of the Year laurels. O Hanlon s experience with sport on the international stage has inspired a number of former Lafayette players to continue their basketball careers in the professional ranks overseas. Almost a dozen past Leopards have gone on to play in Australia, England, France, Hungry, Iceland, Italy, Lebanon, Romania, Saudi Arabia and Switzerland. Paul Cummins 08 and Betley will be playing in Europe immediately after graduation. Selected in the eighth round of the 1970 NBA draft by the Philadelphia 76ers, O Hanlon played with the Miami Floridians of the American Basketball Association for one season before journeying overseas. He went on to play for the Hageby Basketball Club in Sweden for seven seasons, while coaching its farm team. Following his time in Sweden, O Hanlon took over coaching duties for Panteras De Lara in Barquisimeto, Venezuela in 1982, where his squad captured the league title. A 1970 graduate of Villanova University with a bachelor of science degree in Education, O Hanlon averaged 13.1 points per game and served as team co-captain for the Wildcat squad that reached the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals. O Hanlon, who prepped at Philadelphia s St. Thomas More, still holds the Villanova school record for assists in a game (16 vs. Toledo, ) and finished his collegiate career with 689 points. He was inducted into the Villanova Hall of Fame in O Hanlon and his wife, the former Nancy Callery, reside in the College Hill area with their son, Timothy, and daughter, Gigi. FRAN O HANLON COACHING TREE Elliott Broadnax Second Assistant at Hartford Pat Brogan Out of college coaching; coached at Penn State and Georgia Tech Mike Burden Top assistant, Maine Drew Dawson Top assistant, Hartford Steve Donahue* Head coach, Cornell John Gallagher Top assistant, Penn Rob Jackson Scout, San Antonio Spurs John Kirkorian Head coach, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Mike Longabardi Assistant coach, Boston Celtics Van Macon Top assistant, Hofstra University Mike McKee Associate head coach, Denver John O Connor Top assistant, Georgia Tech Andy Toole Top assistant, Robert Morris * O Hanlon s assistant at Monsignor Bonner H.S. 34

5 YEAR-BY-YEAR BREAKDOWN (.259) Fifth 4-8 Posted 7-20 record after going 2-25 the previous season Stefan Ciosici unanimously selected Patriot League Rookie of the Year Craig Kowadla named All-Patriot League First Team (.393) Fourth 5-7 Brian Ehlers named to Patriot League All-Rookie Team (.679) First 10-2 Selected as Patriot League Coach of the Year Team tied for regular-season title Lost in the Patriot League Tournament Final Stefan Ciosici named Patriot League Player of the Year Tyson Whitfield named Patriot League Rookie of the Year Brian Ehlers earns All-Patriot League Second Team honors (.733) First 10-2 Selected as Patriot League Coach of the Year Won Patriot League regular-season title outright Won the Patriot League Tournament Advanced to NCAA Tournament for first time since 1957 Brian Ehlers named Patriot League Player of the Year and Patriot League Tournament MVP Ted Cole selected All-Patriot League First Team (.774) First 11-1 Tied for Patriot League regular-season title Won a school-record 24 games Won the Patriot League Tournament Advanced to NCAA Tournament in consecutive seasons Brian Ehlers named Patriot League Player of the Year Stefan Ciosici named All-Patriot League Second Team and Patriot League Tournament MVP (.429) Fifth 4-8 Frank Barr, Tim Bieg, Tyson Whitfield named to the All-Patriot League Second Team Senior class graduates with 77 wins over four years (.517) Third 8-6 Brian Burke named to All-Patriot League First Team Kenny Grant named to Patriot League All-Rookie Team Team picked to finish seventh in league ended season third Advanced to Patriot League Tournament semifinals (.448) Sixth 6-8 Justin DeBerry named All-Patriot League Second Team Team advanced to Patriot League Tournament semifinals (.643) Third 9-5 Justin DeBerry and Winston Davis named All-Patriot League First Team Mike Farrell named All-Patriot League Second Team (.357) Fifth (.393) Fifth 5-9 Andrei Capusan named All-Patriot League Second Team Andrew Brown selected to Patriot League All-Rookie Team (.300) Eighth (.500) Fifth 6-8 THE BOTTOM LINE (.497) 13 Seasons Two Patriot League Coach of the Year Honors; first coach to win award consecutively Three Patriot League regular-season titles Two NCAA Tournament appearances Three Patriot League Player of the Year award winners 17 All-Patriot League first-team and second-team selections Five Patriot League All-Rookie Team selections 35

6 LAFAYETTE LEOPARDS JOSH LOEFFLER ASSISTANT COACH Full Name: Joshua Alan Loeffler Hometown: West Grove, Pa. Birthdate: July 22, 1981 Spouse: Helen (Leitner) Loeffler High School: Wilmington Friends (Delaware) College: Swarthmore College 03 Coaching Career: 2008-Present Assistant: Lafayette College : Stevens Institute of Technology : Williams College : St. Lawrence University : Hamilton College JOSH LOEFFLER begins his first season as the top assistant on Fran O Hanlon s coaching staff. Loeffler spent the past two seasons as the head coach at Stevens Institute of Technology and led the Division III institution in Hoboken, N.J., to a mark during his tenure. In his first season as a collegiate head coach in , Loeffler guided Stevens to a 23-7 record and a share of the Skyline Conference title. His squad earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament where it knocked of 18th ranked Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Ramapo College to reach the Sweet 16 before losing to eventual national champion Amherst College. Stevens finished the year ranked 24th in the country and 1st in the NCAA Atlantic Region in the D3hoops.com poll while Loeffler was named the Atlantic Region Coach of the Year by the same organization. In , Loeffler s squad tied the school record for wins in a season with a 23-6 record. Stevens made the switch to the Empire 8 Conference and shared the regular- season title with Ithaca College. After losing to eventual champion Nazareth College in the semifinals of the conference tournament and missing out a second straight NCAA bid, the Ducks received the top overall seed for the ECAC Division III Metro Championship. Loeffler went on to lead Stevens to three straight victories and the ECAC Metro title. Loeffler got his coaching start as an assistant at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., in He also served as the defensive line coach with the football team for one season. While at Hamilton, Loeffler helped lead the basketball team to a 19-8 mark and an NCAA Tournament appearance. After his stop at Hamilton, Loeffler moved on to St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y. where he was an assistant coach from He spent the season at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., under two-time NABC Division III Coach of the Year Dave Paulsen. Loeffler is a 2003 graduate of Swarthmore College in Media, Pa., where he earned a bachelor of arts degree in Economics. He earned four varsity letters as a forward on the basketball and one in football as a tight end in his sophomore year. A native of West Grove, Pa., Loeffler is married to the former Helen Leitner. 36

7 PETE SCHWETHELM ASSISTANT COACH Full Name: Peter Boone Schwethelm Hometown: Houston, Texas Birthdate: June 8, 1975 High School: Alamo Highs College: Trinity, 1999 Coaching Career: 2007-Present: Assistant Coach, Lafayette College : USMMA : Georgia Tech : Rice : Schreiner College PETE SCHWETHELM brings over a decade of coaching experience to Lafayette as he embarks on his second season with the Leopards. He was an assistant at the United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA), a Division III school in New York prior to joining Fran O Hanlon s coaching staff for the season. At the Academy, Schwethelm was involved with all aspects of the program, working with former Lafayette assistant and current USMMA head coach John Krikorian. Prior to his stint in New York, he worked as the video coordinator at Georgia Tech and Rice University, respectively. It was during his time in Atlanta that Schwethelm first became familiar with Lafayette s basketball tradition, as he worked alongside another member of O Hanlon s coaching tree in current Georgia Tech assistant coach John O Connor. Before his time at Rice, Schwethelm spent several years as a small college and high school coach in Texas. While enrolled in undergraduate courses, he worked under Rob Shapiro at Schreiner College in Kerrville, Texas, for two years. Immediately after graduation, he coached with Bobby Sanders at Episcopal High School in Houston for one year before accepting a head coaching job at The Winston School in Dallas. After two years at the small private school, Schwethelm worked with Texas coaching legend JD Mayo for one season at Dallas Skyline High School. Thanks in large part to his former high school coaches David Balderrama and Charlie Boggess, Schwethelm knew early on that he wanted to coach, joining the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches as a senior in high school. Years later, he helped found the Georgia Basketball Coaches Association ( and Dreams Within Reach ( a non-profit foundation designed to help at-risk youths. Schwethelm received his bachelor s degree in History from Trinity University in

8 LAFAYETTE LEOPARDS PERSHIN WILLIAMS ASSISTANT COACH Full Name: Pershin Williams Hometown: Columbus, Ga. Birthdate: March 3, 1982 High School: Spencer College: North Florida 05 Coaching Career: 2008-Present: Lafayette College : United States Merchant Marine Academy : Georgia Tech PERSHIN WILLIAMS joins the Lafayette coaching staff after spending the previous season as an assistant coach at the United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA). While with the USMMA, Williams worked under John Krikorian, a former Lafayette assistant coach under Fran O Hanlon. Prior to arriving at Kings Point, N.Y., Williams served as a graduate assistant at Georgia Tech where he coached with Schwethelm and current Tech assistant and former Lafayette assistant John O Connor. He served roles in player instruction, recruiting development and basketball operations. Prior to starting his coaching career, Williams was a standout at North Florida. A transfer point guard from the D-I program, he set single-season school records for assists (161) and steals (69). Williams spent his first three seasons at Columbus State (Ga.). There he helped the squad to a 27-5 record and top-national ranking as the point guard in his junior season. The Columbus, Ga. native received his bachelor of arts degree in Education of Sports Leadership from North Florida in 2005 and is working toward his masters in Sports Administration at Georgia Tech. 38