Rachel Easterday is a 1996 LHS girls basketball state champion. Now she is a champion of LHS girls varsity basketball as their coach.

In high school, she was a senior guard,  mainly a defensive player. She owned her role on the court, defending against the best players in Maryland.

After she graduated, she played basketball for the Rams (Shepherd University)  for a year and then focused on her academics the following three years. After she graduated from Shepherd, she attended Towson University for two years to get her teaching degree.

Easterday has two children, both boys, Ty and Brady. Ty and Brady are energetic and athletic.  She has been married to Mike Easterday, a police officer, for 11 years.

When she was in high school, she enjoyed the friendships she had and the sports that she played. Easterday still continues to hold on to the friendships she made in high school and with her high school teammates.

She has two siblings who also attended Linganore. 

This will be Easterday’s third year of coaching the varsity girls basketball team, but her first as a faculty member. She has accomplished a lot in her three years of coaching.  Last year, the team went 3-6 in the region, and 6-7 overall.

Her first year, 2014-2015, they went 6-9 overall and 1-7  in the region. Coach Easterday and her team think that this is their year.  The team won their opening game at Middletown, 53-41.

Former player Karly Johnson, says “Mrs. Easterday was the most supportive coach I have ever played for. She still keeps in touch with me and followed me through my college process. She has helped shape me into the women I am now.”

She loves being able to be back in the Lancer community and being able to coach. She loves the girls that she gets to work with on and off of the court.

This year Easterday says she wants to make it far in the playoffs and continue to give back to the community.

Easterday teaches Unified PE, volleyball, and freshman gym/health.

Before she started working here she was a gym teacher at Middletown Middle school, and Monocacy Middle. If Easterday wasn’t a gym teacher she says that she would have liked to be a sports analyst.

She enjoys being with her family during her free time. Both of her sons are very active in sports so she is very busy with taking them to practices and games.

On top of family, basketball and school Easterday has a love for football. Easterday is a die-hard Steelers fan.