Women's Basketball
Petrino, Mike
Mike Petrino
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- mike.petrino@mso.umt.edu
- Phone:
- 243-5338
The 2020-21 season is Mike Petrino’s first year as the head women’s basketball coach at Montana after serving as an assistant coach with the Lady Griz the previous four years.
Montana went from seven to 14 to 14 to 17 wins while Petrino was an assistant coach. The team’s 17 wins in 2019-20 were the most for the program since 2015-16.
The Lady Griz advanced to the quarterfinals of the Big Sky Conference tournament in 2017-18, Jace Henderson was voted second-team All-Big Sky in 2018-19, and McKenzie Johnston was named first-team All-Big Sky in 2019-20.
Petrino, who was born in Glasgow and raised in Kalispell, has more than two decades of coaching experience, from high school freshmen to Colorado of the Pac-12, where he was on staff in 2015-16.
After coaching at various schools throughout Montana, Petrino moved to Portland in the early 2000s and took a teaching and coaching position at Central Catholic High.
He spent 10 years at the school, the final five as the head coach of the boys’ basketball team. The Rams went 97-37 under Petrino, won five Mt. Hood Conference titles and twice placed third at the Oregon Class 6A state tournament.
He was named the Mt. Hood Conference Coach of the Year three times in his five years as head coach.
Petrino started coaching Division I women’s basketball in 2011-12, when he was hired at Wyoming. He would spend four years on Joe Legerski’s staff. The Cowgirls twice won 20 or more games and advanced to the 2013 WNIT.
He was on Linda Lappe’s staff at Colorado in 2015-16.
A 1999 graduate of MSU Billings, Petrino is married to the former Kelly Hays, the daughter of former Griz basketball player Eric Hays. The couple has two daughters, Jamieson and Hayden.
Petrino’s brothers, Jason and Jared, are on the football coaching staff at Southern Illinois.
Petrino’s cousin, Paul, is the head football coach at Idaho. Another cousin, Bobby, is the head coach at Missouri State. He previously was the head coach at Louisville and Arkansas, and with the Atlanta Falcons.
His uncle, Bob Sr., was the longtime football coach at Carroll College in Helena, Mont.
Montana went from seven to 14 to 14 to 17 wins while Petrino was an assistant coach. The team’s 17 wins in 2019-20 were the most for the program since 2015-16.
The Lady Griz advanced to the quarterfinals of the Big Sky Conference tournament in 2017-18, Jace Henderson was voted second-team All-Big Sky in 2018-19, and McKenzie Johnston was named first-team All-Big Sky in 2019-20.
Petrino, who was born in Glasgow and raised in Kalispell, has more than two decades of coaching experience, from high school freshmen to Colorado of the Pac-12, where he was on staff in 2015-16.
After coaching at various schools throughout Montana, Petrino moved to Portland in the early 2000s and took a teaching and coaching position at Central Catholic High.
He spent 10 years at the school, the final five as the head coach of the boys’ basketball team. The Rams went 97-37 under Petrino, won five Mt. Hood Conference titles and twice placed third at the Oregon Class 6A state tournament.
He was named the Mt. Hood Conference Coach of the Year three times in his five years as head coach.
Petrino started coaching Division I women’s basketball in 2011-12, when he was hired at Wyoming. He would spend four years on Joe Legerski’s staff. The Cowgirls twice won 20 or more games and advanced to the 2013 WNIT.
He was on Linda Lappe’s staff at Colorado in 2015-16.
A 1999 graduate of MSU Billings, Petrino is married to the former Kelly Hays, the daughter of former Griz basketball player Eric Hays. The couple has two daughters, Jamieson and Hayden.
Petrino’s brothers, Jason and Jared, are on the football coaching staff at Southern Illinois.
Petrino’s cousin, Paul, is the head football coach at Idaho. Another cousin, Bobby, is the head coach at Missouri State. He previously was the head coach at Louisville and Arkansas, and with the Atlanta Falcons.
His uncle, Bob Sr., was the longtime football coach at Carroll College in Helena, Mont.
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