Coach Will Rey

Coach Will Rey has coached basketball for over 40 years at the high school and DI levels. He is the coach at Northridge Preparatory School in suburban Chicago.

During his tenure at Northridge, the varsity team has a 395-180 (.687) overall record and an 182-46 (.800) mark in conference games. Also, the Knights have captured 8 IHSA Class AA Regional Championships, advanced to the state’s “Sweet 16” in 2009 and 2015, won 6 conference championships, six conference 2nd place finishes, and garnered three major holiday tournament championships!

In January 2021, the Chicago Sun-Times identified Northridge as one of the Top 50 winningest high school basketball programs in the greater Chicagoland area during the previous decade; Northridge was ranked the area’s 31st winningest program with a stellar 206-86 (.705) record. During the 2021-22 season, Coach Rey eclipsed the 400 career wins milestone as a high school head coach.

Coach Rey received Conference Coach-of-the-Year honors in 2007, 2008, 2013, 2017, 2018, & 2023; and was named IBCA District Coach-of-the-Year in 2009, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2020, 2022 & 2023. He is a member of three Halls-of-Fame: Illinois Basketball Coaches’ Assn (2015), Chicago Catholic Athletic League (2017), and Five-Star Basketball Camp (2005). In 2010, he received Sports Faith International’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Before coming to Northridge in 2004, Coach Rey spent 19 years coaching at the collegiate level and eight years locally at the high school level. As a college coach, he was Jim Crews' assistant at the University of Evansville where he coached teams in the DI NCAA and NIT Tournaments. He also was head coach at Loyola University Chicago and Ed Schilling's top assistant at Wright State University in Dayton, OH.