Michael McDonald joined the Chestnut Hill College’s women basketball coaching staff as an assistant prior to the 2012-2013 season. A 2006 graduate of CHI Institute, a division of Kaplan Higher Education Corporation (KHE), McDonald holds an associate’s degree in network engineering. As a collegiate student-athlete, McDonald was a member of Chestnut Hill College’s inaugural men’s basketball team with whom he played during the 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 seasons.
Prior to coaching at Chestnut Hill College, McDonald served as a volunteer assistant coach for the girls’ basketball team at Cardinal Dougherty High School from 2006 to 2009. From there he went on to be the Head Coach of St.Cecilia School’s 7th grade boys’ basketball team, 2010-2011, and an assistant coach for the girls’ varsity basketball team at Archbishop Ryan High School, 2011-2012. The following summer, 2012, he served as the Head Coach of the Mid-Atlantic Magic of the Under 16 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU).
An alumnus of Cardinal Dougherty High School, McDonald started for the Cardinals in his junior (2000-2001) and senior (2001-2002) seasons. As a senior captain, he helped lead the Cardinals to a 13-1 record in the Philadelphia Catholic League-North and earned recognition as an All-Philadelphia Daily News Honorable Mention. He was also a four-year starter, and two-year captain, for the Cardinals varsity soccer team.
As a collegiate student-athlete, McDonald played alongside current Chestnut Hill College Men’s Basketball Assistant Coach Dan Burke ’08, and recent Chestnut Hill College Athletics Hall of Fame inductee Isaac Greer ’07 (HOF Class of 2012).
McDonald currently resides in Glenside, Pennsylvania, with his wife Jackie.
