The University of Pennsylvania women’s basketball team’s head coach Mike McLaughlin announced the hiring of Ryan Weise as the program’s new assistant coach on Wednesday afternoon, completing the coaching staff ahead of the 2025-26 season.
“We are thrilled to welcome Ryan Weise to the Penn Women’s Basketball program as our new Assistant Coach,” McLaughlin said. “Ryan is a bright and talented young coach with a strong basketball pedigree, and she brings with her a deep understanding of the game. What sets Ryan apart is not only her competitive drive and knowledge of the game, but also her exceptional ability to connect with and support student-athletes.
“Her capacity to build meaningful relationships and relate to players on and off the court will be invaluable to our team and culture moving forward.”
Weise comes to University City from Worcester, Mass. where she served as the Director of Basketball Operations for Holy Cross the last two seasons.
Most notably during her two seasons with the Crusaders, Weise helped Holy Cross to its 13th Patriot League Tournament Championship and the 2023-24 Patriot League Regular Season title, appearing in the NCAA Tournament.
“I am beyond thankful to Coach McLaughlin for the opportunity to join the Penn women’s basketball staff,” said Weise. “It’s truly an honor to be part of such a highly-respected and successful program. I’m excited to contribute to the growth of our student-athletes both on and off the court, to compete in the Ivy League, and to be a part of the incredible energy and tradition of Philadelphia basketball.”
Weise arrived on The Hill after a spring internship with Division II East Stroudsburg women’s basketball where she assisted the coaching staff by executing scouting reports and film breakdown, participated in on court player instruction, coordinated team meals, promoted the program’s golf outing and camps while also helped promote the team on social media channels. In the spring, she was named to the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) class for the 20th “So You Want To Be A Coach” program, a two-day workshop during the 2023 WBCA Convention in Dallas.
As a graduate student and one-time team captain at East Stroudsburg, Weise was a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) All-First Team honoree in 2022-23, was the Division II Conference Information Directors (D2CIDA) National Player of the Week on November 15, 2022 was named to the November DII Women’s Basketball All-Stats Starting Five and selected to the Lehigh Valley Small College Basketball Organization’s Pete Nevins Player of the Year and to Scholar-Athlete Team.
In just a short time, Weise etched her name in the record books setting the program record in three-point percentage (40.3), free throw percentage (82.3), while ranking second in three-pointers (158), 10th in scoring average (14.7) and 12th in assists (235). In the single-season records, Weise holds two of the top three marks for most three-pointers in a season (97, 2022-23) and ranks third (61, 2021-22) while also coming in at third in three-point percentage (42.7%). She also matched the single-game record for three pointers made with eight in three consecutive contests. On January 29, 2022, Weise recorded the program’s second ever triple double (10 points, 11 rebounds, 10 assists) and first since the 1993.
Before ESU, Weise competed for Long Island University from 2018-2021 and was a two-time team captain her sophomore and junior year. She was named a Northeast Conference (NEC) Prime Performer of the Week three times. On February 18, 2020, Weise banked in a running 30-foot game-winning triple which was the no. 1 play on SportsCenter.
She finished her collegiate career between the two stops with 1,381 points, 507 rebounds, 442 assists and 210 steals.
Off the court, Weise was selected to be a member on the East Stroudsburg 14th Presidential Inaugural Committee and worked alongside football coach Jimmy Terwilliger to organize the event, which welcomed the new President and his family to campus which took place at the spring game.
In the classroom, Weise was a two-time NEC Commissioners Honor Roll honoree and a three-time NEC Scholar-Athlete award winner. She earned PSAC Scholar Athlete honors twice and was a College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District Team winner.
Weise graduated from Long Island in May 2021 with a bachelor of science in business; sports management and graduated from East Stroudsburg in May 2023 with a Master of Science in Management and Leadership.
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