Head Coach Anthony Baskerville

Anthony Baskerville was named the head football at East Coast Prep on December 1, 2024. Coach Baskerville is known throughout coaching circles as an outstanding teacher who mentors student-athletes, and is also known nationally as a dynamic recruiter excelling at placing prospects nationwide.

Prior to being named head coach, Coach Baskerville served as the associate head coach and offensive coordinator at East Coast Prep for four seasons.  An incredible play caller, during his tenure at “The ECP Nest” Coach Baskerville has piloted explosive offenses that continue to score record points per game and per season. Baskerville has helped lead the Firebirds to a 31-8-1 record during his four-year tenure.

Prior to his arrival at ECP, Coach Baskerville, was the offensive coordinator at Dean College for five seasons and receiver coach for four seasons. Baskerville was named the 2019 Eastern Collegiate Football Conference (ECFC) assistant coach of the year.

Baskerville’s other collegiate coaching stops include a season at the University of New Haven where he served as the receiver’s coach for the Division II Chargers when they went 7-4 and advanced to the Northeast-10 Championship.

Upon joining the ECP staff in 2021, Coach Baskerville reunited with previous Firebird head coach Todd Vasey for whom Baskerville played college ball and coached with at Dean College. With Vasey at the helm and Baskerville at quarterback, Dean College won 2 consecutive NEC titles in 2008-2009 and compiled a 19-3 record, while playing in two national bowl games.

After his two seasons at Dean, Baskerville went on to play at Division I football at the University of Rhode Island where he emerged as one of the best wide receivers in the Colonial Athletic Conference. In his junior season with the Rams, Baskerville was named a third team
All-CAA selection finishing with 48 catches overall for 500 yards and three touchdowns.

He followed up that impressive season with a second-team All-CAA selection in 2011 after leading the league in yards per reception (15.9), finishing third in receiving yards (731), touchdown grabs (7) and was named All-New England by the New England Football Writers
Association. In two seasons with the Rams, he saw action in 22 contests and finished with 94 catches for 1,231 yards and ten touchdowns.

Baskerville was recently inducted as a member to the Newark New Jersey, Athletic Hall of Fame, The Westside High School Hall of Fame and The New Jersey Athletic Hall of Fame. Coach Baskerville is a 2012 graduate of the University of Rhode Island with a bachelor’s degree in communications.