Varsity Girls Basketball

Lauren Power serves as Head Coach of Germantown Academy’s varsity girls basketball program and as the school’s Associate Athletic Director.

Since arriving at GA in June 2023, Power has continued the Patriots’ tradition as one of the premier programs in the Inter-Ac League. In her first season, she guided the team to an Inter-Ac League championship and a 24-6 overall record, with Izzy Casey ’24 earning League MVP honors. Under Power’s leadership, the Patriots have consistently competed at the top of the league standings, never finishing lower than second place while winning at least nine Inter-Ac games in each of her first three seasons. During that span, six student-athletes have gone on to play collegiate basketball and nine players have earned All-Inter-Ac recognition.

Power arrived in Fort Washington after a highly successful tenure as Head Coach at the Academy of Notre Dame, where she compiled 76 victories in four seasons and led the Irish to the league’s best record in 2021. Her teams also earned second-place Inter-Ac finishes in 2019, 2022, and 2023. During her time at Notre Dame, she coached three NCAA Division I players, three 1,000-point scorers, three McDonald’s All-American nominees, two Pennsylvania All-State selections, one Inter-Ac MVP, two Markward Player of the Year recipients, and numerous All-Inter-Ac, All-Delco, and All-Main Line honorees.

Power also brings significant collegiate coaching experience. She served as Assistant Coach and Recruiting Coordinator at Yale University from 2012–14, was Head Coach at Manhattanville College, where she earned Freedom Conference Coach of the Year honors in 2010 and led the program to back-to-back regular-season conference championships, and spent time as an assistant coach at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Coach Strothers has been coaching basketball in the Philadelphia area for over 13 years and prior to GA served as the Plymouth Whitemarsh High School Girls Basketball Head JV Coach and Varsity Assistant. His success as a coach can be attributed to his love for the game. Coach Strothers has served as the Head Girls Varsity coach at Norwood-Fontbonne Academy and the Head JV Coach and Varsity Assistant at Springside School. He is also currently an ad-hoc board member for Whitemarsh Girls Basketball League and continues as a head coach for Fencor AAU. He has experienced success on the court, qualifying for the playoffs, having AAU teams qualify and participate in National Championship Tournaments, and having players recruited and now playing as NCAA student athletes. In addition to his teaching of fundamentals basketball, it is his message to all his kids that separates him and that is the importance of education, teamwork, self-discipline, and family values as important elements for success in basketball and life.