Steve Donahue
Donahue in 2014
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| Sport(s) | Basketball |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Penn |
| Conference | Ivy League |
| Record | 24–31 (.436) |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | May 21, 1962 |
| Playing career | |
| 1980–1984 | Ursinus |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1984–1987 | Springfield HS (asst.) |
| 1987–1988 | Monsignor Bonner HS (asst.) |
| 1988–1990 | Philadelphia (asst.) |
| 1990–2000 | Penn (asst.) |
| 2000–2010 | Cornell |
| 2010–2014 | Boston College |
| 2015–present | Penn |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 224–245 (.478) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 3x Ivy League championships (2008, 2009, 2010) | |
| Awards | |
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Clair Bee Coach of the Year Award (2010) 2x NABC District Coach of the Year (2008, 2010) |
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Steve Donahue (born May 21, 1962) is an American college basketball coach, who is currently the head coach of the Penn Quakers men's basketball team. He is the former head coach of Boston College and Cornell.
Donahue is a native of Springfield Township, Pennsylvania and a former player at Ursinus College, where he was a member of the Sigma Rho Lambda fraternity. Prior to becoming the head coach at Cornell University, Donahue began his coaching career as an assistant coach at Springfield High School, Monsignor Bonner High School, Philadelphia University, and The University of Pennsylvania.
Donahue had been the head coach at Cornell from September 2000 until April 6, 2010. Cornell struggled early under Donahue, but he eventually turned the program around. A March 1, 2008 defeat of the Harvard Crimson gave Cornell the Ivy League championship for the first time since 1988 and just the second title in program history. On March 6, 2009, with Princeton's loss to Columbia, Cornell clinched the Ivy League Championship for a second consecutive year. It was the first time in 50 years that any team other than Penn or Princeton had won consecutive Ivy League titles in basketball.
Exactly one year later on March 6, 2010, Donahue's Cornell team defeated the Brown Bears to clinch its third consecutive title and fourth in team history. This guaranteed an automatic bid for Cornell in the 2010 NCAA basketball tournament, in which Cornell was given a 12-seed in the East region. Cornell went on to win two games in the tournament, defeating 5-seed Temple and then 4-seed Wisconsin, both victories by double digit margins, to advance to the Sweet 16, the first Ivy League team to advance this far since 1979 (when Penn reached the final four). There they fell to the 1-seed Kentucky Wildcats, ending their historic run. This team featured several lauded seniors, including point guard Louis Dale, who finished as the third highest scorer and top assist man in Cornell history; center Jeff Foote, whose presence in the middle was essential to Cornell's success; and forward Ryan Wittman, who finished as the top scorer in Cornell men's basketball history (and the 5th highest scorer overall in Ivy League's men's basketball history) at 2,028 points.
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