Ron
McHenry
Head Basketball Coach
Phone: 785-670-1796
Email: ron.mchenry@washburn.edu
Since his appointment as head coach prior to the 2000-01 season,
Ron
McHenry has quickly
returned the Washburn women’s basketball program to national prominence.
Entering his eighth season on the Lady Blues bench,
McHenry has won 84
percent of his games going 188-37 overall with four straight MIAA Championships
and three straight MIAA Tournaments.
This past season, McHenry
led the Lady Blues to their third straight MIAA postseason championship and
their fourth NCAA Regional Final in the last five seasons finishing the season
with a 29-4 record.
During the 2005-06 season, Washburn continued its NCAA record 51-game winning
streak into the regional finals, where Washburn fell in overtime. For his
efforts, he was named the MIAA Coach of the Year after leading the team to a
perfect 16-0 season.
In 2004-05, McHenry
was named MIAA Coach of the Year and Molten/Division II Bulletin National Coach
of the Year after guiding Washburn to its first-ever NCAA Division II crown in
any sport. He also led the Lady Blues to a third straight MIAA regular season
title, an MIAA Tournament title and a South Central Regional title with a 35-2
record.
He is second among active women’s NCAA Division II Coaches in winning
percentage.
The Lady Blues posted a 26-5 record and a second straight MIAA regular season
crown in 2003-04. The Lady Blues also earned a berth to the NCAA Division II
National Tournament for the third straight year.
In only his third season in 2002-03,
McHenry guided the
Lady Blues to a regular season MIAA title, an MIAA postseason tournament
championship and a berth to the Division II Elite Eight.
The Lady Blues tied for second most wins in team history at 30-4 and went to the
Elite Eight for the third time in team history. For his efforts he was named
District VI Coach of the Year.
In his second season McHenry
engineered one of the best turnarounds in Division II, guiding Washburn to the
South Central Regional and finishing with a 23-7 record.
He guided the Lady Blues to back-to-back 20 win seasons after finishing with a
13-14 record in 2000-01, which was also his first season as a head coach at the
collegiate level.
McHenry was named
the head coach on May 8, 2000.
He became only the fifth coach in the history of the women’s basketball program
at Washburn and the first new head coach since Patty Dick joined the Lady Blues
as the head coach in the 1977-78 season.
Prior to his new appointment,
McHenry spent the
previous 11 seasons as a member of the men’s basketball coaching staff under
current coach Bob Chipman. While on the Washburn bench, he was a part of 243
wins. In addition to his basketball duties,
McHenry was the men’s
golf coach for eight seasons.
McHenry has had a
diverse coaching career. He began his career as a graduate assistant to Chipman
during the 1984-85 season. He then went on to Perry High School in 1986 where he
served as assistant boys coach.
McHenry quickly
moved up the coaching ranks in 1988 when he assumed an assistant’s position with
the Topeka Sizzlers of the Continental Basketball Association.
McHenry eventually
became the Sizzlers’ interim head coach before joining the Washburn staff for
the 1989-90 campaign. During his first year on the Washburn staff,
McHenry was the
department’s academic advisor.
McHenry played for
Washburn after stints at Coffeyville Community College and the University of
Kansas. He started for the Ichabods during the 1983-84 season.
He graduated from Washburn with a bachelor’s degree in communications and went
on to earn a master’s degree in sports administration from Wichita State
University in 1987.
McHenry and his
wife, Mischa, have three children, Danielle, Samantha and Ronnie.