John Michael McConathy is an American basketball coach and the winningest college basketball coach in Louisiana history. He is currently the head men's basketball coach at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. He was reared in Bossier City and played college basketball at Louisiana Tech, earning honorable mention All-American honors. From 1983 to 1999, McConathy was the basketball coach at Bossier Parish Community College, originally an entity of the Bossier Parish School Board. He was hired as head coach at Northwestern State in March 1999.