Perry Bromwell

Perry D. Bromwell (born ) is an American former professional basketball player and coach. His international playing career took him to Norway, the Philippines, and England, the latter of which saw him win the British Basketball League National League Division 2 as a player-coach. In college, Bromwell was the 1987 Ivy League Player of the Year.

Playing career High school Bromwell, a native of Boston, Massachusetts, played for Don Bosco Technical High School from his freshman through junior years. For his senior year, he transferred to Avon Old Farms, an all-boy boarding school in Avon, Connecticut. He averaged 13.2 points and 2.5 rebounds per game and was named the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Rookie of the Year. He had to redshirt 1983–84 per NCAA by-laws.

In just three seasons at Penn, Bromwell scored 1,265 points and is the school's season and career leader in three-point field goal percentage (50.6% his senior year, the first year the three-point shot was introduced). Including his stint at Manhattan, Bromwell scored 1,607 points at the Division I level. He was waived before the start of the season and never appeared in an NBA game.

Coaching career and later life Bromwell earned his first coaching opportunity in 1993–94 as a player-coach for the Nottingham Cobras in the British Basketball League (BBL), where he led the team to the BBL National League Division 2 championship. He then took over as head coach at the University of Nottingham for the next two seasons before finishing out his professional playing career for the next two years (1996–1998). Bromwell returned to the United States in 1998. He had short stints as an assistant coach for Ursinus and Frostburg State before moving to Florida in 2000 to teach and coach at the high school level. Six years later, an assistant coaching opportunity opened up at his alma mater, Penn. Bromwell inquired about it and was offered the position. He spent the next three seasons coaching the Quakers before stepping away from coaching altogether.