Bio

Tony Wingen enters his 34th season with the Tartans and is the longest tenured men’s coach in the University Athletic Association (UAA).

On February 3, 2006, Wingen became Carnegie Mellon’s all-time leader in wins when the Tartans defeated Washington University 79-72. He currently has 361 wins as the university’s head coach.

During Wingen’s 33-year helm of the Tartans, he has had five players play professional basketball during his coaching career at Carnegie Mellon and six overall. Kevin Byrne ’96, Eliot Goren ’05, Nate Maurer ’06, Greg Gonzalez ’08, and Christian Manoli ’14 were the five Tartans under Wingen to play professionally. Bary Dunn, an ’06 graduate, also competed internationally, as he was part of the United States Inaugural Maccabi Australia International Games that competed in Sydney, Australia in 2006. Matthew Pettit and Shane Rife, both 2011 graduates, continued their playing career as well. Pettit played for the BK Miners club team in Norway and Rife played for the Glasnevin Basketball club team in Ireland.

Wingen has coached 13 players who have scored 1,000 or more career points at Carnegie Mellon and 12 University Athletic Association (UAA) first-team honorees, including Nate Maurer who was a two-time honoree on the top team and named UAA Player of the Year following the 2005-06 season.

Major Team Highlights

• NCAA Tournament appearances: 2 (2006, 2009)
• 2005-06 University Athletic Association (UAA) Champions
• 2008-09 team tied school record with 20 wins also held by 2005-06 team
• 2008-09 team won the program’s first-ever NCAA postseason game  
• ECAC Appearances: 5 (2005, 2007, 2008, 2017, 2023)
• 2007-08 ECAC South Champions

Major Player Highlights

• D3hoops.com All-Region honorees: 3 (Nate Maure – 2005-06; Greg Gonzalez – 2007-08; Jack Serbin – 2016-17)
• Nate Maurer was named UAA Player of the Year in 2005-06
• UAA Rookies of the Year: 3 (Jack Serbin – 2013-14; Patrick Ehland – 2015-16; RJ Holmes – 2021-22)
• 64 All-UAA honorees
• 5 Academic All-Americans
• During 2019-20 season, Colin McNeil recorded the first triple-double in school history with 10 assists, 10 points and 10 rebounds against La Roche University
• On January 31, 2020, McNeil sets UAA single-game assist record with 17 at NYU
• McNeil ended the 2019-20 leading Division III in assists per game averaging 7.3 per contest

Career Highlights

• UAA Coach of the Year – 2004-05 and 2005-06
• Great Lakes Coach of the Year in 2005-06
• Member of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC)
• Chairman of the NABC committee on academics
• Served as a member of the Great Lakes Region Selection Committee
• NABC Division III Outstanding Service Award recognizing his distinguished contributions to the game “inside and outside the lines.” in 2019
• Head Coach at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., from 1988-90
• Assistant Coach for the University of the South from 1986-88
• Assistant Coach at Brown University in 1985-86 – won Ivy League Championship and team has been inducted into the Brown Hall of Fame
• Assistant Coach at Springfield College in 1982-85
• Inducted into the Enfield Community Hall of Fame in September 2006

Wingen has served Carnegie Mellon in a number of administrative roles, most recently as Associate Athletics Director until 2017. Wingen, who grew up in Enfield, Conn., now resides in Mt. Lebanon with his wife, Kris. They have three children and five grandchildren.