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MIKE MCLAUGHLIN • HEAD COACH

Entering his 15th season at the helm of Penn women’s basketball in 2023-24, 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. McLaughlin was hired as the eighth head coach in program history on April 24, 2009.
 
A four-time Philadelphia Big 5 Coach of the Year, McLaughlin has a career record of 635-210 (.764) and has posted 20 or more wins in 21 of his 27 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 have won at least 20 games in seven consecutive seasons, have clinched four Ivy League championships and three NCAA Tournament berths in 2014, 2016, and 2017, while winning the program’s first two Big 5 titles in 2014-15 and 2017-18. Penn has reached the postseason in eight straight seasons (a school record) prior to the pandemic and is in the midst of its most successful stretch of time in program history. Penn qualified for the 2020 Ivy League Tournament as the No. 2 seed before its cancelation due to the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The Quakers returned to Ivy Madness in 2023 at Princeton as the No. 4 seed. 
 
McLaughlin is the only coach in the Ivy League to lead his team to at least 20-wins in seven of the last nine seasons. 
 
Seven 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.

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KELLY KILLION • ASSOCIATE HEAD COACH/RECRUITING COORDINATOR

Kelly Killion enters her eighth straight year and 10th overall on the Quaker sidelines in 2023-24. She was named Associate Head Coach/Recruiting Coordinator in July 2022.

Killion has overseen the success of two Ivy League champion teams in her time with the Quakers, including the program's fourth title in a six-year span in 2018-19 as the Quakers went 24-7 and 12-2 in league play.

During the 2019-20 campaign, Killion worked with the guards helping guide Kayla Padilla to Ivy League Rookie of the Year and first-team All-Ivy honors while also mentoring point guard Kendall Grasela, who finished seventh in the nation in assist/TO ratio and led the Ivy League in assist/TO ratio and assists per game. Padilla finished sixth nationally among all freshmen and second overall in the league in scoring at 17.4 points per game.

While also previously working with the post players, Eleah Parker has become one of the dominant forces in the conference, earning unanimous Ivy League Rookie of the Year honors in 2018 and following that up as a unanimous first-team All-Ivy selection and Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year in 2019. Parker finished the season third nationally in blocked shots per game (3.19), tying the program's single season record with 99 on the year. In 2019-20, Parker defended her honor, winning back-to-back Defensive Player of the Year awards while earning first-team All-Ivy honors once more. 

Vital to the 2018-19 team's championship-level success was senior forward Princess Aghayere, who stepped off the bench for the first time in her career with the Red and Blue for a forceful final campaign, more than doubling her previous single-season point total and earning second-team All-Ivy status and was named the Most Improved Player by the Big 5. 

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ANDRE GIBBS • ASSISTANT COACH

Andre Gibbs joined the women's basketball program in August 2023 as an assistant coach.

Gibbs, a Philadelphia University grad, returns to the City of Brotherly Love after spending this past season at Utah State as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator.
 
Prior to his time with the Aggies, he spent two seasons as an assistant coach at Queens University of Charlotte, where he helped coach Kalaya Hall to All-SAC honors in 2021-22 and Amari Davis to All-freshman SAC honors in 2020-21.
 
He spent a season as a volunteer on the Bryn Mawr College staff before he left the area, where he assisted with the day-to-day operations of the program, player development and scouting of opponents.
 
Gibbs played and learned under Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame coach Herb McGee at PhilaU, now formerly merged with Jefferson University. He finished his collegiate career with 1,400 points and 350 assists, helping guide the Rams to 91 wins across four seasons. He was a part of two CACC championships and was named a Freshman All-American and CACC Rookie of the Year.

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