City of Basketball Love

Josh Verlin (@jmverlin) &
Stephen Pianovich (@SPianovich)
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In introducing Jim Phillips as the new head boys' basketball coach, Penn Charter called it a "new era" for Quakers' basketball.

Really, though, it's the return of an old one.

Phillips previously served as the school’s head basketball coach from 2000-2011 and won back-to-back Inter-Ac championships in 2003 and 2004.

This time around, Phillips will be taking over for his original successor, Lynard Stewart, and coming back to coach a squad that is coming off a 4-21 season which featured a 1-9 record in conference play.

A Penn Charter graduate, Phillips went on to study at La Salle, where he was the men’s basketball team’s manager for four years and served on the Explorers coaching staff for two years after that.

Both of Phillips’ title winning teams went a perfect 10-0 in the Inter-Ac and were led by future D-I and NBA players in Sean Singletary (Virginia) and Rob Kurz (Notre Dame).

In addition to his duties as basketball coach, Phillips also serves as a teacher in the middle school mathematics department of the 350-year-old institution, which was founded in the 1680s thanks to the urging of its namesake, William Penn.

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