Chris Day joined the women’s basketball program as associate head coach in May of 2018 and begins his sixth season in 2023-24.
La Salle ended the 2021-22 regular season with a 16-12 overall record and a 9-6 performance in the Atlantic 10 The conference mark was the team's best record since the 1996-97 season when the Explorers put together a 12-4 performance in league play. La Salle was seeded No. 5 in the conference to earn an automatic trip to the second round of the A-10 Tournament. The seeding was the highest in program history since the conference combined the East and West with La Salle earning West No. 5 in the 2003-04 season.
During the 2019-20 campaign, the Explorers showed vast improvements from year one to two, including the program's best start since 2006 at 6-1. The Blue & Gold more than doubled both its overall (13) and Atlantic 10 (7) win totals in year two. The victory over the Penn State Nittany Lions was La Salle's first over a Power 5 program since November 2015 and first over a Big Ten school since taking down Northwestern in December of 1988. The Explorers also swept Big 5 and A-10 rival Saint Joseph's for the first time ever. A gritty win over the Hawks inside Hagan Arena was the first since 1998.
Day spent the previous two seasons as the head coach at the University of Vermont. There he coached Hanna Crymbleto, an America East All-Conference Second Team selection in 2017-18, making her the first Catamount to earn the honor since 2011. Day’s team registered the top field-goal percentage defense in the America East (36.1%) during his first season in 2016-17.
He returns to Philadelphia after having spent three seasons (2013-16) as an assistant coach for the Penn women’s basketball program. He helped guide the Quakers to Ivy League Championships and NCAA bids in 2013-14 and 2015-16, and a 2014-15 WNIT appearance.
Day also spent seven seasons at Saint Joseph’s before coaching the 2012-13 season at Indiana. Day helped Saint Joseph’s to a 128-94 record and six WNIT appearances during his seven-year tenure on Hawk Hill.
At Indiana, Day helped the Hoosiers double their Big 10 win total from the previous season and signed the nation’s leading high school scorer in Tyra Buss (played for the WNBA’s Connecticut Sun).
He got his start in college basketball as an assistant at Widener in 1999 before being elevated to head coach in 2000. In his final season at Widener in 2002-03, Day led the Pride to their first postseason appearance in 20 years.
Day also spent a season as an assistant at both Duquesne and La Salle before his tenure at Saint Joseph’s.
Day is a 1997 graduate of West Chester University, where he was a four-year letterwinner in both football and track. He and his wife, Megan, have five children: Christian, Olivia, Morgan, Cassidy and Bryce.
