In addition to serving as the Wildcats defensive line coach, Pennypacker is also the team’s Special Teams Coordinator and the Defensive Run Game Coordinator. He previously was a graduate assistant and assistant coach for the program from 2006-07.
Pennypacker spent four seasons as the Defensive Coordinator and safeties coach at Kutztown before returning to Villanova. Before his coaching stint at Kutztown, Pennypacker was an assistant coach for three years at Bucknell. Pennypacker was also the cornerbacks coach at Cornell from 2008-09. He began his coaching career in 2005 at his alma mater, Millersville University.
A linebacker as a player, Pennypacker went on to serve as a student assistant and worked with both the outside linebackers and the safeties. He also was an intern assistant at Allegheny College, where he worked with the outside linebackers.
Pennypacker is a 2005 graduate of Millersville with a degree in social sciences. He and his wife, Lisa, reside in Flemington, N.J.