Coach David Zimmerman is currently the Athletic Director, Dean of Students, Director of Co-Curricular Activities, and Head Boys Varsity Basketball Coach at Akiba Yavneh Academy of Dallas, Texas.

Coach Zimmerman has lead the Bulldogs Basketball team to their best records in school history including six district titles, 4 consecutive State Final Four appearances, and Two Texas State Championships in 2020 & 2018 undefeated season. He Coached the Team USA 16u Boys basketball team to a gold medal at the Pan American games in Mexico City in 2019. He has been named TAPPS Coach of the Year five times. In 2020 the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches named him Coach of the Year. He was previously an Assistant Coach at Southern Methodist University, St. Marks School of Texas, and Episcopal School of Dallas.

As Director of Co-Curricular Activities, Coach Zimmerman works with many of Yavneh’s community service organizations, including Students Against Terrorism, the Points for Peace Basketball Tournament, Students4Students, and Helping Hands for the Homeless.

A New York native, Coach Zimmerman moved to Dallas at the age of five when his father, Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman, a former Grand Aleph Gadol arrived as Senior Rabbi at Temple Emanu-El. He has grown up in the Dallas Jewish community: at the JCC, at Temple Emanu-El, as a student at Solomon Schechter Academy (now the Levine Academy). A graduate of Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, and Southern Methodist University, Dallas is where Zimmerman’s heart remains, and where he and his wife Bethany, intend to always call home. He has a Jack-Chi named BOBBY who loves attending AKIBA YAVNEH athletic events!