Ray Edwards Named Head Men's Basketball Coach

CENTER VALLEY, PA (Sept. 30, 2019) - Penn State Lehigh Valley Athletics would like to welcome new Head Men's Basketball Ray Edwards to the LV campus. Edwards enters his first season as Head Coach of the Men's Basketball program at Penn State - Lehigh Valley. A native of Syracuse NY, Edwards completed his B.S. in Exercise Science at Temple University in 2015 before beginning his coaching career as assistant JV coach at local Freedom HS in Bethlehem, PA. In 2016, Edwards was brought on as assistant coach and later named Associate Head of the men's basketball program at Northampton Community College. In 3 seasons, Edwards helped coach the NACC program to two EPAC conference titles and three Top 15 nationally ranked seasons.  Edwards stated "I am truly blessed to have this opportunity and am looking forward to bringing long term recognition to the program."

Edwards will have his head coaching debut when the team travels to Centenary University on Saturday, Nov. 9th for a 3 PM tip-off.