Hockey Staff

Jason Binkley - Head Coach

Binkley, 31, is the ninth coach in the twenty-three year team history of the Royals. The Powell, Ohio native joined the Royals as an assistant under James Henry in July of 2022. 39 games into the 2023-24 season, on January 29, Binkley was named Interim Head Coach following the leave of Henry as Head Coach and Director of Hockey Operations. During Binkley’s tenure as the team’s Interim Head Coach, the Royals compiled a record of 13-16-3-1 in 33 regular season games (.455 point-percentage). 

Before coaching, Binkley played NCAA Division-I hockey at Ferris State University. In his freshman season, Binkley competed in the 2012 Frozen Four championship game as a defenseman for the Bulldogs. Binkley scored 68 points (6 G, 62 A) across his collegiate career. He won the Ferris State President's award for the top Bulldog student athlete his Sophomore year and was selected to the NCAA All-Academic team his Senior year.

Ryan Anderson - Asst. Coach

Anderson, 38, is the 23rd assistant coach in the 23-year team history of the Royals. A native of Kingsford, Michigan, Anderson prepares for his 15th season behind the players bench after seven seasons in various coaching roles between the North American Hockey League (NAHL) and the North American 3 Hockey League (NA3HL). In 2017-18, Anderson served as an assistant coach for the Corpus Christi IceRays (NAHL) before joining the Texas Jr. Brahmas as an assistant coach for the 2018-19 season. Anderson was part of the Jr. Brahmas 2019 playoff run that won the Fraser Cup. The ensuing season, Anderson was promoted to head coach of the Jr. Brahmas and led the team to a second-consecutive Fraser Cup title. In the 2019-20 season, the team finished the regular season with a league-best 40-5-2 record, which also included a 22-game point streak to end the season. The Anderson-led Texas Jr. Brahmas also boasted the best defense in the NA3HL, allowing 81 goals in 47 games. For his efforts, Anderson received the 2019-20 NA3HL Coach of the Year.

Before his coaching career, Anderson served in the Navy for six years as an electronics technician. Following his service of four deployments, Anderson was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia where he got back into hockey as head coach of the Hampton Road Whalers 13U AA, 14U AA and 16U A teams, as well as an assistant coach for their USP3HL club for part of the 2015-16 season. In 2015-16, Anderson was brought on to serve as a video coach for the Norfolk Admirals in the ECHL where he spent the remainder of the 2015-16 season and the full 2016-17 campaign under the coaching staff of United States Hockey Hall of Famer, Robbie Ftorek.

Jason MacDonald - Head Equipment Manager & Dir. of Hockey Operations

A native of Detroit, Michigan, MacDonald has been Reading’s Equipment Manager since the start of the 2015-16 season. In 2018-19, MacDonald was named the ECHL’s Equipment Manager of the Year. The distinction, determined in a vote of the league’s equipment managers and athletic trainers, marked MacDonald’s first and the Royals’ fourth Equipment Manager of the Year selection. MacDonald has worked as an equipment manager since 2000-01, when he started as an assistant for the USA Hockey’s National Team Development Program. In 2001-02, MacDonald was an assistant equipment manager for the AHL’s Chicago Wolves and the team won the Calder Cup. MacDonald’s experience includes stints in the NHL, AHL, ECHL and CHL.

Sean Berberich - Athletic Trainer 

Sean Berberich, who graduated from Longwood University (Farmville, Virginia) in 2013, served as the athletic trainer for the Evansville Icemen of the ECHL. While working towards his undergraduate degree, Berberich served several stints as a member of the athletic training staffs of the Washington Capitals of the NHL and the Charlotte Checkers of the American Hockey League. He also worked with a number of the NCAA athletic teams at Longwood, where he received the school’s Citizen Leader Athletic Training student award for his performance. Prior to taking over in Evansville, Berberich spent two years at Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina, where he worked with a number of the school’s athletic programs including football, baseball, and soccer.