John Piemontese enters his third year as an assistant coach for the MIT men’s basketball program in the 2024-25 season.
He came to MIT from Nauset Regional High School in Eastham, Mass., where he served as the head coach of the girl’s basketball team from 2019-2022. During that time, Piemontese’s team advanced to the 2020 MIAA South Quarterfinals, captured the 2021 Cape and Islands League Co-Championship and advanced to the 2021 Cape and Islands League Tournament Final. In that stretch, he also had six student-athletes go on to play collegiately across Divisions I, II and III.
Piemontese also has 14 years of head coaching experience on the men’s side, including as the head coach at Bunker Hill Community College from 1988-1993. He also has three boy’s basketball high school stops, with the most recent one coming at Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School from 2004-2007. Collegiately, Piemontese has been an assistant coach at Bunker Hill, Bridgewater State and Salem State.
His other experience includes serving as the head girl’s golf coach at Dennis-Yarmouth for two seasons, as well as eight years as athletic director between Whittier Regional Vocational Technical High School and Canton High School.
A 1985 graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Piemontese earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. He then went on to the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, where he graduated with a Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction in 1989.
