Hall of Fame
Mark Ehlen coached the Toledo women’s basketball team for 13 seasons and was one of the winningest coaches in Mid-American Conference history. He was named MAC Coach of the Year four times and led the Rockets to eight MAC titles and six post-season berths. A two-time Women’s Basketball Coaches Association District 4 Coach of the Year, Ehlen posted a 240-149 record and finished his career at Toledo second in MAC history in conference wins and fifth in overall winning percentage. He coached four teams that made it into the NCAA Tournament (1996, 1997, 1999 and 2001). His 1995-96 team won an NCAA tourney game with a 65-53 victory over 24th-ranked Mississippi, before falling to sixth-ranked Old Dominion, 72-66, in second-round action. His 1998-99 team was ranked No. 25 in the final Associated Press poll. Ehlen’s teams had a penchant for performing well in the classroom. In Ehlen’s tenure, Rocket players were selected first-team Academic All-MAC eight times and Academic All-District IV first-team seven times, including one CoSIDA Academic All-America pick. The Rockets’ success in the classroom was recognized by the WBCA’s Academic Top-25 Team Honor Roll four times during his tenure. In 2001-02, the Rockets posted a 3.465 overall team GPA to finish second nationally among more than 300 Division I programs. The Rockets finished in the top eight on three other occasions and posted a 100% graduation rate for four-year players during Ehlen’s tenure. Ehlen also was the head coach at Xavier for nine seasons before joining the Rockets in 1995. He was inducted into the Cincinnati Women’s Sports Hall of Fame in 1986. Since leaving UT in 2008, Ehlen has served as an assistant coach at Cincinnati, Miami University and Xavier.
