Albright College Athletics

Rick Ferry is entering his 25th year on the sidelines as the men's basketball head coach. Last season, Ferry earned his fourth career MAC Commonwealth Coach of the Year award as well as leading his team to the #1 seed in the MAC Commonwealth playoffs. Eric Chamberlain (1st Team) and Phanique Dupree (Commonwealth Defensive Player of the Year & 2nd Team) were both guided to post season honors under the direction of coach Ferry. 

Albright head coach Rick Ferry begins his 24th season at helm of the Albright men's basketball program in 2024-25. In his 24 seasons at the helm, Ferry has taken a team that started at the bottom of the conference ladder and has turned it into a perennial contender in the MAC Commonwealth. 

Coach Ferry reached the illustrious win total of 300 wins in his career at Albright during the 2022-23 season. Ferry's all time record sits well above .500 at Albright fielding a competitive team year in and year out. Coach Ferry led guard Eric Chamberlain to MAC Commonwealth Defensive Player of the Year in 2022-23. The Defensive Player of the Year award was the first for Albright in school history. 

In 2022, led by Ferry, the Lions made it to the MAC Commonwealth tournament for the sixth consecutive season. Ferry coached senior Sidney Brown to All-Mac Second Team honors, and Brown became the 40th player in school history to score 1,000 career points during the season.

In 2021, Ferry navigated the Lions through a 10-game shortened season due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. The team won the 2021 MAC Commonwealth Championship, which is the third conference title under Ferry. Ferry coached three players in Sam Majekodunmi, Corey Simmons, and Jordan Guerrero to earn All-MAC Commonwealth Honors, and one (Simmons) to earn D3hoops.com All-Mid-Atlantic Region honors.

In 2019-20, the Lions continued their MAC Commonwealth Tournament streak by advancing into the semifinals for the fourth-straight year. The Lions dropped a heartbreaker in overtime to Arcadia in the tournament. The Lions also earned their first ECAC Tournament berth since the 2012-13 season. Albright defeated Centenary in the first round before falling to eventual champion Gwynedd Mercy in the next round. Ferry once again coached Sam Majekodunmi to All-MAC Commonwealth honors, this time being selected to the first team. Majekodunmi also earned D3hoops.com All-Mid-Atlantic Second Team honors as well. 

The 2018-19 season saw the Lions qualify for its third-straight MAC Commonwealth Tournament appearance on the final day of the regular season in dramatic fashion. Albright would stun Stevenson on the road in the MAC Commonwealth Tournament play-in game before falling to eventual MAC Commonwealth Champion Arcadia in the semifinals. Ferry coached Sam Majekodunmi to All-MAC Commonwealth Second Team Honors and All-ECAC First Team Honors. 

In July 2018, Ferry was appointed as a member of the NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Committee in which helps select the field for the NCAA Tournament for the second time in his career. 

The 2017-18 season became one of the finest for Ferry at Albright as he led the Lions to a first place finish in the 2017-18 MAC Commonwealth regular season standings with a 20-7 overall record and 12-4 record in conference play. They advanced to the MAC Commonwealth Championship game for the second-straight season after they defeated No. 6 seed Arcadia at home, 58-45. The Lions lost a 70-68 heartbreaker to No. 2 seed Lebanon Valley in the title game, but still made the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2010 as an at-large team. Albright lost another close game, 88-86, to Springfield in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. 

The successful season earned him MAC Commonwealth Coach of the Year honors for the third time in his tenure at Albright. He also coached DeJuan Smith to earn MAC Commonwealth Player of the Year honors, NABC All-District First Team honors, and D3hoops.com all-region honors. 

Albright certainly contended in 2016-17. The Lions reached the MAC Commonwealth Tournament championship game after qualifying for the tournament for the 10th time in the last 14 seasons. Albright posted a 10-6 record in conference play, the Lions' most wins since the 2012-13 season. Albright entered the tournament as the No. 3 seed before earning an 86-68 road victory at second-seeded Widener. The Lions went on to the title game at Lycoming, where they lost, 76-62.

Two of Ferry's players reached 1,000 career points in 2016-17, with Omari Ringgold and DeJuan Smith each surpassing the mark in February. As a team, the Lions finished the year ranked second in the MAC Commonwealth in three pointers and third in assists and in fewest turnovers.

Ferry has reached the Commonwealth Conference Tournament 13 times, winning it twice, while playing in three NCAA Tournaments and four ECAC Tournaments.

Albright went 13-13 in 2013-14, reaching a third straight Commonwealth Conference Tournament. The Lions had two All-Commonwealth selections, and freshman Sameen Swint was named the league's Rookie of the Year.

The Lions won 22 games in 2012-13, second-highest in program history. Albright was the second seed in the Commonwealth Tournament and hosted the ECAC South championships.

Albright achieved a 17-9 mark in 2011-12, qualifying for the Commonwealth Conference Tournament after winning its final six regular season games. The Lions also won the Moravian Greyhound Starter's Classic and Wyndham Reading Tip-Off Tournament, and traveled to Ithaca, N.Y. to face Division I and Ivy League opponent Cornell University.

In 2009-10, the Lions claimed their third conference regular season and second tournament championship under Ferry. Their 21-6 record marked only the sixth time in program history that the Lions recorded 20 or more wins in a single season. Those 21 wins remain the third-highest total in school history, a mark Ferry has now achieved twice in his time at Albright. After winning the title, Ferry and his Lions hosted the first and second rounds of the NCAA Division III Tournament.  Along with the many team accomplishments, Zac Shaeffer was named conference Player of the Year, and received numerous regional and national postseason honors.  

In 2004-05 the Lions won the Commonwealth Conference Championship, reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament, and won 21 games. Ferry also led Albright to the ECAC South Region Tournament Championship in 2006. He was named the Commonwealth Conference Coach of the Year in both the 2003-04 and 2004-05 seasons. During his tenure with the Lions Ferry has coached 16 All-Conference players, seven 1,000 point scorers, and three Conference Players of the Year.

Ferry has also coached three DIII News All-Americans- Albert Medoro (2008), Zac Schaeffer (2010) and Dave Singleton (2013).

Ferry was a star player at nearby Wilson High School in the early 80's, then headed to Susquehanna University to continue his education and playing career. While at Susquehanna he helped the Crusaders qualify for the MAC playoffs three times, and in 1984 earned a trip to the NCAA Sweet 16.

Upon graduating in 1985 with a B.S. in accounting, Ferry went to work for KPMG Peat Marwick, the largest accounting firm in the world at that time. While employed at KPMG, Ferry began his coaching career, working as a volunteer assistant at Trinity High School in Camp Hill, PA in 1987-88.

Ferry left KPMG to pursue his MBA at Ohio University in 1988. During that time, he interned on Wall Street with Chase Manhattan Bank. Ferry graduated in the spring of 1989 with his MBA, and in September returned to Susquehanna to begin his coaching career

Ferry worked for seven seasons as an assistant coach at Susquehanna. Among his many duties, he built a junior varsity program that fed a very successful varsity team for the Crusaders. He also recruited extensively in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. During his tenure as a coach at Susquehanna, Ferry also served as the school's Comptroller.

In 1996 Ferry accepted his first head coaching position, taking the job at Juniata College. He took over a program in disarray and, through a lengthy rebuilding process, led the program back to respectability. In April of 2001, he was offered and accepted the opportunity to come back to Reading and take over the vacant head coaching position at Albright.

Ferry is currently in his second stint on the NCAA Division III Men's Basketball committee, and a current board member of the Reading Berks Basketball Association (RBBA) In addition to his duties as the Lions' men's basketball coach, he serves as the Co-Director of Athletics at Albright.
 

The Ferry File
	GP	W	L	Pct.	Notes
2024-25	25	17	8	.680	MAC Commonwealth Tournament & Coach of the Year
2023-24	25	11	14	.440
2022-23	24	9	15	.375
2021-22	25	10	15	.400	MAC Commonwealth Tournament
2020-21	10	7	3	.700	Commonwealth Champions
2019-20	28	16	12	.571	MAC Commonwealth Tournament & ECAC Tournament
2018-19	26	9	17	.346	MAC Commonwealth Tournament
2017-18	27	20	7	.741	MAC Commonwealth Tournament & NCAA Tournament
2016-17	27	13	14	.481	MAC Commonwealth Tournament
2015-16	25	10	15	.400
2014-15	24	9	15	.375
2013-14	26	13	13	.500	Commonwealth Tournament
2012-13	29	22	7	.759	Commonwealth & ECAC Tournament
2011-12	26	17	9	.654	Commonwealth Tournament
2010-11	25	15	10	.600
2009-10	27	21	6	.778	Commonwealth Tournament Champions & NCAA Tournament
2008-09	26	17	9	.653	Commonwealth Tournament
2007-08	26	17	9	.653	Commonwealth & ECAC Tournament
2006-07	24	10	14	.416
2005-06	28	19	9	.678	ECAC South Champions & Commonwealth Tournament
2004-05	28	21	7	.750	Commonwealth Tournament Champions & NCAA Tournament
2003-04	27	17	10	.630	Commonwealth & ECAC Tournament
2002-03	23	4	9	.174
2001-02	25	4	21	.160
Career	604	328	278	.541