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Kim
Penney:
Varsity Head Coach
Coach
Penney
enters her twelfth season as the girls’ varsity head coach at Reading Memorial
High School. Last season, her team captured its first Middlesex League Title
and finished with a 23-2 record overall, advancing to the MIAA division II North
Final for the second consecutive season. Many of her former players have
continued their playing careers at the collegiate level (Div. I, II and III),
and her teams are consistently known for displaying good sportsmanship. Coach
Penney holds a B.A. in psychology from Tufts University and a M.Ed. in guidance
counseling from Salem State College. She was a four-year member and senior
captain of the women’s basketball team while at Tufts. In 2005, she founded
One-on-One College
Consulting, a company that specializes in helping student-athletes with the
college admissions process. She directs various basketball camps throughout the
year. In 2010,
Reading Girls Basketball Summer Camp will celebrate its 21st year. She
resides in Wakefield with her husband, Matt, and their two sons, Bryan and Jack.
 Jim
DeBenedictis:
Varsity Asst. Coach
Coach
D
enters his twelfth year as a member of the RMHS girls’ basketball coaching
staff. For six seasons, he served as the girls’ junior varsity coach where
his teams finished in the top three of the league each season. Currently,
he serves as girls’ varsity assistant coach. Prior to RMHS, Coach D was the
freshman boys’ basketball coach at Bishop Fenwick High School in Peabody.
He has also coached numerous travel teams in the city of Lynn. He holds a
B.A. from Merrimack College and a M.Ed. from UMass Lowell. Each year, Coach
D produces a professional DVD which recaps the season and is enjoyed by all
at the annual end-of-season banquet. He is the Head of the History
Department at RMHS and resides in Chelmsford with his wife, Janice, and
their three sons, Joey, Tony and Domenic.
Kerry
Sullivan:
Junior Varsity Coach
Coach
Sullivan
enters her fifth season as the girls’ junior varsity coach at RMHS. Prior to
Reading, Coach Sullivan served as the girls’ junior varsity basketball coach at
her alma-mater, Wakefield High School. A member of the 1997 Wakefield High team
that won the Division II State Championship, she played Division II college
basketball at St. Anselm College where she majored in sociology. She holds a
M.A. in Elementary Education from Cambridge College and currently works as a
sixth-grade teacher in Wakefield. She resides in Saugus.
Emilee Ackerman:
Freshmen Coach Coach
Ackermann enters
her first
season as the girls’ freshmen coach at RMHS. Prior to Reading, Coach
Ackerman served as an AAU Bay State Blizzard coach for the U-11 and U-12 program
for one year. Coach Ackerman played Division III college basketball at
Westminster College in Pennsylvania, where she majored in Elementary Education.
She was named to CoSIDA ESPN The Magazine First-Team Academic All American
(2008) and WBCA NCAA Division III State Farm Coaches’ All-American Team
Honorable Mention (2008). Coach Ackerman is currently a 3rd grade teacher for
The Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School and resides in Woburn.
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