Coaching Staff

The 2025-2026 season is Coach Laney’s seventh season as the Varsity Coach at Lower Merion. The 2024-2025 campaign saw the Aces earn CAL Playoff and District I berths for the first time since 2011-2012. Coach Laney also teaches 12th Grade US Government at Lower Merion High School. Prior to arriving at LM, Laney served as the JV and Assistant Varsity Coach at Southern Lehigh High School in Center Valley, PA. During her four seasons at SL, the Spartans were 4x Colonial League and District XI Champions and made it to the PIAA 5A State Semifinals in 2018 and 2019. Coach Laney played basketball at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA, where she was a four-year letter winner, an All-League player, a two-time Centennial Conference Champion, a member of the soon-to-be Hall of Fame 2011 Team that made it to the NCAA Division III Sweet Sixteen, and one of ten players to be recognized on Muhlenberg’s 2010-2020 All-Decade Team. Coach Laney grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut where she was an three-time All-League player for Greenwich High School.

The 2025-2026 season is Coach Craig’s third year with the Lower Merion Girls Basketball Program. Growing up in Chester County, Coach Craig played basketball at an elite level in high school and AAU. Though her collegiate career was stopped short due to injuries, her love for the game and desire to share it with youth never wavered. She has eight years of experience coaching basketball with youth ages 5 through 18 in middle school athletics, recreational leagues and the AAU circuit. Coach Craig has built a career working with and empowering youth in and out of the classroom. Now in her 12th year teaching in Lower Merion School District, she has created, facilitated, & mentored clubs, activities, & organizations, to help youth have positive self-esteem and a desire to leave a powerful impact on the world around them.