Former Gamecock is the new girls basketball coach at Heathwood Hall
Brionna Dickerson-Zimmerman is one of the top players in Heathwood Hall basketball history. Now she’ll get the chance to coach there.
Dickerson-Zimmerman was named the new Heathwood Hall coach on Tuesday. She replaces Rich Edwards, who has been there since 2016. The Highlanders went 6-15 this year.
“I’m thrilled to be back home coaching for a program that helped catapult me into my playing career as well as prepared me for life,” Dickerson-Zimmerman said. “I want to take the same values that I followed as a student athlete and make sure that each person on our team improves and knows that we will be all in as a family this season.”
Dickerson-Zimmerman is Heathwood’s all-time leading scorer with 3,351 points from 2000-2005 despite missing her senior season with an injury. She averaged 40 points and 10 rebounds as a junior and is a member of the school’s hall of fame.
Dickerson-Zimmerman’s family has been part of the Highlander program. Her sisters Kristen and Victoria also were 1,000-point scorers for the school. Her father, Jerome, is an assistant on the boys team.
After playing at Heathwood, Dickerson-Zimmerman went to the University of South Carolina, where she was a two-year starter for the Gamecocks. She averaged 13.4 points in 19 games during her senior season before suffering a season-ending injury.
This story was originally published March 31, 2020 at 12:04 PM.
