Gary Manchel (born November 29, 1962)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Mercyhurst Lakers
Current conference: Northeast Conference (NEC)
UMass Lowell record^: 130-126Â (.508)
Mercyhurst record^: 373-219Â (.630)
Overall record^: 503-345 (.593)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: Â 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: Â 0
- NIT Championships: Â 0
- NIT Appearances: Â 0
- NEC Regular Season Champion:Â 0
- ECAC (Div II) Conference Champion:Â 1Â (1997)
- NEC Tournament Champion:Â 0
- NCAA Division II Tournament Appearances:Â 8Â (2001, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)
Awards:
- PSAC (Div II) Coach of the Year:Â 3Â (2011, 2016, 2020)
- NE-10 (Div II) Coach of the Year:Â 1Â (2001)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2003-present | Mercyhurst |
| 2001-2003 | Ohio (asst) |
| 1992-2001 | UMass Lowell |
| 1987-1992 | Yale (asst) |
| 1985-1987 | Slippery Rock (grad. asst) |
Gary Manchel Facts
- Gary H. Manchell
- Born November 29, 1962
- Hometown: Burlington, Vermont
- Alma Mater: University of Vermont (BS, 1985) / Slippery Rock University (M.Ed)
- The Burlington-native played three seasons for the hometown Vermont Catamounts and head coach Bill Whitmore
- Started out as a graduate assistant at D-II Slippery Rock (PA), working for two seasons under head coach Bob Barlett
- His first assistant coaching job was at Yale, where he worked under Dick Kuchen for five seasons
- Became a head coach in 1992 when he was hired by then-Division II UMass Lowell
- Went 130-126 over nine seasons at the helm, with three 20+ win seasons; named NE-10 Coach of the Year in 2001
- Spent two seasons working at D-I Ohio University as one of Tim O’Shea‘s assistant coaches
- Hired in 2003 to be the head coach at D-II Mercyhurst in Erie, PA
- Has won over 370 games in 21 seasons at the helm, going to seven D-II NCAA Tournaments with the Lakers
- Helmed three of the best teams in the program history, winning 26 games in 2018-19 and 25 in both 2021-22 and 2022-23
- In April 2024, the school announced that it was moving up to Division I and joining the NEC ahead of the 2024-25 season
Gary Manchel Coaching Tree
- Anthony Latina (Sacred Heart)
^ overall record includes head coaching positions at both the NCAA Division I and Division II levels; UMass Lowell was a D-II program during Manchell’s tenure, and Mercyhurst was a D-II program until moving up to D-I in 2024
