Philip Herro

played collegiate basketball at Drew University from 2004 through 2008. After college, he began his coaching career as the Men’s Assistant Coach at SUNY Maritime College in New York. He then spent time locally in New Jersey coaching middle schools boys at MKA and GSB. In 2012, Coach Herro began his career at Raritan Valley Community College as the Men’s Assistant Coach. In 2015, he was named the Head Women’s Basketball Coach. He is entering his eight year (2023) on the sidelines for the RVCC Women’s Basketball Team.

Herro has overseen the transition of RVCC’s team from a club sport to a perennially competitive varsity squad. The team has consistently had at least three team members on the Region XIX All-Academic team each season for maintaining over a 3.25 GPA. The 2017-18 Team had 7 of its 12 players selected to the All-Academic Team. The team has a graduation rate of over 70%, nearly triple the average for community college students. The 2019 Class graduated all 6 sophomores, 2 of which earned NJCAA All-Academic Honors. On the Hardwood the team has also seen some great individual success. Megan Mack was named Second Team All-Region and First-Team All-GSAC in the 2016-17 Season. Ashley Hunt and Olivia Nilsen were both named First-Team All-GSAC for the 2017-18 season. Hunt was recognized as a First-Team All All-Region Player and Nilsen a Third-Team All-Region player in that same season. Following the season Nilsen was voted as an NJCAA WBCA All-Star for her performance during the year. Nilsen followed up her freshman season with another vote to Third-Team All-Region while Freshman, Precious Allah, was named a Second-Team All-Region performer. Nilsen was the first women’s player to score over 1,000 career points in her career as she finished with 1,008.