Jimmy Fenerty joined the Tribe staff as an assistant coach in May of 2022. He spent the previous four seasons at Temple University and has eight years of Division I experience as an assistant coach.
In his second season in Williamsburg, Fenerty helped W&M one of the top turnarounds in the country, a 7.5-game improvement, to finish with 17 wins. The 17 wins were the 12th most in program history. The Tribe posted an 11-7 record which ranked as the eighth-best conference improvement in the country.
In 2024-25, W&M ranked among the national leaders in adjusted offensive tempo (18th), fastbreak points per game (16th), 3-pointers made per game (15th), bench scoring (eight) and assists (25th). The Tribe’s 336 made 3-pointers in 2024-25 ranked second in school history and are the sixth most in CAA history.
In each of the last two years, Fenerty helped the Owls to 10 wins in American Athletic Conference play, including an upset win at No. 1 Houston, 56-55, on Jan. 22, 2023. The Owls also picked up wins over No. 16 Villanova, VCU and Rutgers during the non-conference portion of the schedule in 2022-23. Temple won 17 games in 2021-22 and followed with 16 in 2022-23.
During his time as an assistant at Temple, Owls earned four All-AAC honors, three AAC All-Rookie Team selections, eight AAC Players of the Week, five AAC Rookies of the Week, two NABC All-District Team choices and the 2021 AAC Sportsmanship Award winner. The Owls’ 2021 recruiting class was ranked No. 46 nationally by Rivals.com.
Fenerty also spent four years as an assistant coach in the Patriot League at Lafayette College. With the Leopards, he served as the recruiting coordinator. He recruited and mentored 2018 Patriot League Rookie of the Year Alex Petrie and 2019 third team All-Patriot League player Justin Jaworski.
Fenerty, the son of Hall of Fame Germantown Academy coach Jim Fenerty, graduated from Dickinson College in 2013 with a degree in policy management. He helped the Red Devils to a school record 21 wins during his senior season. Dickinson won the Centennial Conference Championship and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Division III Tournament. During his undergraduate career, he worked as a counselor at various summer basketball camps, including Temple, Hoop Group, Rutgers, Lafayette, Dickinson and Germantown Academy.
Fenerty started his collegiate coaching career as a graduate manager at Temple in 2013-15. He helped to design offseason individual workouts and assisted with recruiting endeavors. Additionally, he organized the team camp and oversaw the daily operations of the program as a whole. He earned his master's degree from Temple in 2015 in educational leadership.
