Fran O’Hanlon joined the Haverford College men’s basketball team as an assistant coach for the 2024-25 season. O’Hanlon brings 40 years of coaching experience to the team, most recently being at the helm for division one Lafayette Leopards men’s basketball from 1995 to 2022. 

With the Leopards, O’Hanlon was a three-time Patriot League regular season champion (1998, 1999, and 2000) and a three-time Patriot League tournament champion (1999, 2000, 2015). In the 2020-2021 campaign, O’Hanlon steered Lafayette to a Central Division Championship. 

After getting his coaching start with Panteras De Lara in Barquisimeto, Venezuela in 1982 where he guided his team to a league title, the two-time Israel Professional League Coach of the Year headed Hapoel Haifa and Maccabi Haifa in Israel, before taking over as the head boy’s coach at Monsignor Bonner High School in Drexel Hill, Pa. 

In a very tough Philadelphia Catholic League, O’Hanlon took Bonner to the league tournament three times, capturing the league title once. Compiling an impressive 36-23 record, O’Hanlon earned the title of Catholic League Coach of the Year.

Before his time with the Leopards, O’Hanlon stood under the bright lights of the Palestra, as an assistant coach for Penn Quakers men’s basketball under Fran Dunphy, where the Quakers made the NCAA Tournament for three season in a row, while accumulating an outstanding 42-0 record in Ivy League play.

After a standout playing career at Villanova, where he still currently holds the Villanova school record for assists in a game ( 16 vs. Toledo in 1970), O’Hanlon was drafted by his local Philadelphia 76ers in the eighth round of the 1970 NBA Draft. O’Hanlon played for the Miami Floridians of the American Basketball Association, before competing for Hageby BK of the Swedish First Tier for seven seasons.

O’Hanlon currently resides in Newtown Square, Pa.

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