Hall of Fame
Terence “T” McMahon is the all-time winningest high school boys varsity tennis coach in New York State and currently ranks third all-time in girls varsity tennis all while coaching at Orchard Park High School in Section VI. Since 1975, he’s accumulated a 661-92 career record on the boys side to go with 41 sectional championships and 52 league championships. Terence’s teams went undefeated in 20 seasons and he once led them to a string of 124 consecutive wins from 2010-2021. Since 1975, 80 boys players qualified for the state tournament under his leadership. His career coaching varsity girls tennis is nearly as remarkable having piled up a 400-28 record from 1975-2000 which included 21 league championships, 19 undefeated seasons and a run of 159 straight wins from 1989-98. In McMahon’s 25-year girls career, 50 of his players reached the state tournament. In addition to coaching high school, he’s guided college programs with stints as head coach at Canisius College (1964-75) and Mercyhurst College (2011-12). Terence has been inducted into the Section VI Hall of Fame, Bishop Loughlin Hall of Fame and Buffalo Tennis Hall of Fame while also earning numerous Coach of the Year plaudits locally and statewide. In addition to coaching, he has been the Section VI Boys Tennis Coordinator since 1982. Before kickstarting his career as a social studies teacher, guidance counselor and coach at Orchard Park, McMahon was a star player at Fordham University for a year then transferred to Canisius for his final three years where he was the team captain and eventually earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees.