Coaches

Keith Perry is originally from Albany, NY where he played lacrosse and participated in competitive swimming. In 1994 he graduated from Siena College with a BS in Chemistry and worked as a Research Chemist until relocating to Wilmington, NC in 2000. He has taught Chemistry at Laney HS since 2003 and helped establish a Women’s Lacrosse program at Laney in 2005 with Beau McCaffray.

He is currently the head swimming coach at Laney and has been selected as the MEC Conference swimming coach of the year in 2018, 2020-2021, 2022 (Women’s) and 2019 (Men’s). He believes in fostering an environment which shares his love for lacrosse while promoting the growth of the sport in a positive and respectful manner within the community.

Kim Burghardt grew up in Northern New Jersey playing soccer, softball and basketball. After graduating East Stroudsburg University in 2012, she relocated to Wilmington. She has been coaching since 2009. Over the course of her coaching career she has coached soccer, basketball and lacrosse at various levels. Kim is currently the Athletic Director and Physical Education teacher at Trask Middle School.

Courtney Burghardt grew up in New Jersey and played soccer and lacrosse in high school and continued playing competitive soccer through college. After moving to Wilmington in 2013 she got a job teaching Health & Physical Education at Topsail High School. She has been the head varsity lacrosse coach at THS for 6 years. She has coached for various travel programs and is excited to continue growing the love for lacrosse in our area.

Kira Eldridge was born and raised in Wilmington and started playing lacrosse in middle school. She just recently graduated in 2022 from Laney High School as the Varsity captain. She got selected for The Mideastern 3A/4A All Conference first team as well as chosen to play in a Bull City All Stars game for North Carolina. She was also the captain for 2 out of her 4 seasons on the Teal Team for Coastal Rays Lacrosse. She is now attending UNCW for a major in Creative Writing and a minor in journalism. She also plans to play club lacrosse at UNCW as well. She is blessed to have the opportunity to share the love she has for lacrosse and build the confidence of these players on and off the field. She wants to show these girls that they are never too young to make a difference and that they all have the mindset to be the best versions of themselves. She is so excited to help coach and get more girls involved in lacrosse!

Meghan Eamma was born and raised in Wilmington and grew up playing basketball, lacrosse, and competitive swimming. Meghan started playing lacrosse in middle school at Holly Shelter following in her sister, Ashley Eamma’s, footsteps and was a four year Varsity lacrosse player at Laney high school. Throughout her middle and high school athletic years, Meghan faced many knee injuries and surgeries. Instead of letting her injuries end her athletic career, Meghan overcame her injuries and furthered her lacrosse career and played Division 3 College Lacrosse at Averett University in Danville Virginia where she just graduated from in May 2022 with a Bachelors Degree in Sports Medicine. Meghan plans to attend Grad School to pursue a career as a Physical Therapist next year.

As a former lacrosse player, she is overjoyed at the growth of the sport of lacrosse in her hometown. Her goal as a coach is to share her love of lacrosse, inspire, teach, and also be a role model to young female athletes to never give up on their dream and overcome any obstacles they may face because, in the end, good things come to those who never give up!