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 (13), Grace (12) High School: St. Thomas More College: ’70 Coaching Career: 1983-84 and 1985-86 Head Men’s Coach, Israel Professional League 1984-85 Assistant Women’s Coach, Temple University 1986-89 Head Boy’s Coach, Monsignor Bonner H.S. 1989-95 Assistant Men’s Coach, Univ. of Pennsylvania 1995-Present Head Men’s Coach,

RAN O’HANLON begins his 13th double-digit win total for the first time season at Lafayette, the second- since the 1989-90 season. Flongest tenure in the Patriot The team success and personal League, a conference that features accolades began to mount in 1997-98, as top-flight coaches with experience at O’Hanlon won his first the highest levels. O’Hanlon more than Coach of the Year honor. His squad holds his own among his peers and is collected 19 wins, the most in eight widely recognized within the coaching seasons, and won a share of the regular- community for his ability to teach the season title, but fell one game short of game. the NCAA Tournament. His coaching acumen was validated In 1998-99 O’Hanlon guided by his selection as a court coach for the Lafayette to a berth into the NCAA 2007 USA Pan-American Tournament, a 22-8 record, its second- Games Team Trials in July 2007. straight Patriot League regular-season O’Hanlon joined other collegiate title and its first-ever Patriot League coaches for the trials which featured 30 Tournament championship. The 1998- of the nation’s top collegiate basketball 99 Leopards allowed O’Hanlon’s true players. leadership ability to shine, as he was O’Hanlon took over a non- confronted with the loss of preseason scholarship program on March 13, 1995 Player of the Year Stefan Ciosici for the and immediately began building. His entire season and the loss of 1997-98 first season on College Hill showed a Rookie of the Year Tyson Whitfield five-win improvement just a season after for seven games in the middle of the he inherited a team that posted a 2-25 conference schedule. O’Hanlon never mark in 1994-95. Then in 1996-97, the flinched, and his peers voted him Leopards won 11 games, reaching the Patriot League Coach of the Year for

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the second straight season, the first ever League Tournament semifinals. Also in In 2005-06, Lafayette’s progress was league coach to be awarded the honor in 2001-02, O’Hanlon recorded his 100th hampered by injuries and slowed by its consecutive seasons. career win on Dec. 19. youth. Two starters in the backcourt In 1999-2000, O’Hanlon steered In 2002-03, O’Hanlon coached an missed the majority of the season due Lafayette to the most wins ever in over-achieving squad to the semifinals to injury, and Lafayette managed a fifth- the program’s history with 24. The of the Patriot League Tournament for place conference finish. Leopards captured their third straight the second straight season. The strong The 2006-07 season began to put Patriot League regular season title and finish to the season followed a non- O’Hanlon and the Lafayette program advanced to NCAA Tournament for the conference road win over Massachusetts on an even playing field, as the coaching second year in a row. in December. During the season, he was staff welcomed its first scholarship class. Injuries spoiled O’Hanlon’s plans also honored with the Patriot League’s Previously, Lafayette had chosen to in 2000-01, as two key players Sportsmanship Award. award financial aid based solely on need, missed significant stretches in a 12-16 During the 2003-04 season, he the Patriot League’s founding principle. campaign. The season was not without guided a senior-laden squad to an When O’Hanlon came to Lafayette its highlights, however, as the Leopards 18-10 record and an undefeated 7-0 in 1995, he brought with him a winning notched wins over Princeton and clip through the first round of Patriot pedigree from the University of eventual conference champion Holy League play. The Leopards also Pennsylvania where he was an assistant Cross. Three players earned All-Patriot registered non-conference wins over coach under current Temple head coach League honors. La Salle, Drexel and Princeton. Fran Dunphy for six seasons. With his The 2001-02 season reinforced to In 2004-05, O’Hanlon oversaw a assistance, the Quakers flourished from the basketball community O’Hanlon’s youthful Leopard team that played a 1992-95, earning three consecutive ability to get the most out of his demanding schedule which featured NCAA Tournament berths while players. He guided a team picked to visits to Georgia Tech and Louisville recording a perfect 42-0 record in Ivy finish seventh in the preseason poll to a and ended with a 9-19 record, including League play. third-place finish in conference action. a season-opening win at Atlantic 10 foe Prior to joining the Penn staff, The Leopards advanced to the Patriot Duquesne. O’Hanlon spent three seasons as the (continued on page 35)

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(continued from page 33) head boys’ 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 1987- 88 season. A two-time Catholic League Coach of the Year, he compiled an overall record of 36-23 at Bonner. Basketball has taken O’Hanlon to Scandinavia, South America and the Middle East. During the 1983-84 and 1985-86 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. Selected in the eighth round of the 1970 NBA draft by the , 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 Division I 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 1969-70 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, 1969-70) and finished his collegiate career with 689 points. He was inducted into the Villanova Hall of Fame in 1992. O’Hanlon and his wife, the former Nancy Callery, reside in the College Hill area with their son, Timothy, and daughter, Grace.

35 LAFAYETTE LEOPARDS DREW DAWSON ASSISTANT COACH

Full Name: Andrew Joseph Dawson Hometown: Camp Hill, Pa. Birthdate: June 13, 1979 High School: Trinity Catholic College: Lafayette College, 2003 Coaching Career: 2003-04: Assistant Coach, East Stroudsburg University 2004-Present: Assistant Coach, Lafayette College

REW DAWSON begins his fourth season at Lafayette and Dhis third as the top assistant on Fran O’Hanlon’s staff. A 2003 graduate of Lafayette, Dawson was the first of O’Hanlon’s former players to join him on the sidelines. The 28-year-old, who is one of the youngest top assistant coaches in the nation at the Division I level, is now the top recruiter for the Lafayette program which began offering scholarships prior to the 2006-07 season. Dawson has managed the Lafayette basketball camps the past three summers. During his time at Lafayette, clinic in 2005. In 2005, Dawson’s The Camp Hill, Pa. native was a point he has been instrumental in involving article on foundations of player guard for the Leopards, playing his final the men’s basketball team in a host development was published in American season in 2002-03 before graduating of community service projects. He Basketball Quarterly. with dual degrees in Economics & initiated the annual charity 3-on-3 For the past two summers, Business and English. Dawson then went tournament which is run by the men’s Dawson has taken a college select on to earn his master’s degree in Sport basketball program and raises money to team to Europe as part of the Global Management Administration from East fight Dystonia. Sports Academy. He has led the Stroudsburg University, where he spent Dawson has also orchestrated several group of college basketball players in the 2003-04 season as an assistant coach junior high school developmental clinics international play throughout Belgium, under Jeff Wilson. while also beginning an annual coaches’ Holland, France and Germany. Dawson resides on College Hill.

36 2007-08 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 2006-2007: USMMA 2004-2006: Georgia Tech 2003-2004: Rice 1996-1998: Schreiner College

ETE SCHWETHELM brings over a decade of coaching experience to PLafayette and served as an assistant at the United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA), a Division III school in New York, prior to joining the Leopards staff. At USMMA, Schwethlem contributed to all aspects of the program, working with former Lafayette assistant and current academy head coach John Krikorian. Prior to his time in New York, he worked as the video coordinator at Georgia Tech and Rice University, respectively. During his time in Atlanta, he first became familiar with Lafayette’s basketball tradition, working alongside another member of Fran O’Hanon’s former staff, current Georgia Tech assistant coach John O’Connor. Association of Basketball Coaches and dreamswithinreach.org), a non-profit Before working as part of the Rice Texas High School Coaches Association. foundation designed to help at-risk coaching staff, Schwethelm spent Schwethelm co-founded the Georgia youth. several years as a small college and Basketball Coaches Association (www. He received his bachelor’s degree in high school basketball coach in Texas. gbca.us). He continues to work with History from Trinity University in San He is an active member of the Texas the Dreams Within Reach (www. Antonio, Texas in 1999.

37 L AFAY ETTE L EOPARDS MIKE FARRELL ASSISTANT COACH

Full Name: Michael Joseph Farrell Hometown: DeLand, Fla. Birthdate: Feb. 18, 1982 High School: Father Lopez College: Lafayette College, 2004 Coaching Career: 2004-06: Assistant Coach, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University 2006-Present: Assistant Coach, Lafayette College

IKE FARRELL returns to Lafayette for his second season Mas a Leopard assistant coach, one of two of O’Hanlon’s former players to join him on the current coaching staff. Farrell spent the 2004-05 and 2005- 06 basketball seasons as an assistant coach at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla. near his hometown of DeLand. While there, he helped guide Embry-Riddle to a pair of NAIA Division II National Tournament Sweet 16 appearances that accompany a pair of Florida Sun Conference titles. During his initial time in , Farrell served as the Leopards’ team captain in 2002-03 and 2003-04, the first such player being named the Patriot League Men’s diabeteshappens.com) is a not-for-profit to do so consecutively during the Basketball Scholar-Athlete of the Year organization dedicated to increasing O’Hanlon era. He earned All-Patriot in 2004. He graduated with a degree in awareness of the disease and providing LeagueLeag Second Team honors as a senior. American Studies. an open environment for those suffering Farrellrrel embodied the ideal of the Farrell is the co-founder of from diabetes. student-athlete,nt- twice earning CoSIDA Diabeteshappens, with Tyler Farrell resides in Easton, Pa. Academicmi All-District II honors while Byrne. Diabeteshappens (www.

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