Program Leaders
Jeremy Edwards
Jeremy Edwards grew up in Washington, D.C. and attended St. Albans School. He went on to graduate from Haverford College where he played baseball, captained the basketball team and eventually coached. Jeremy later led a professional European basketball club, the Cardiff Clippers, to Welsh and English League Championships. While in the UK, Jeremy coached the men's team at Cardiff University, the women's team at the University of Wales and the Welsh Junior National Team. Jeremy went on to earn a Masters degree from Stanford University's School of Education. He taught, coached and served as the Dean of Students at the Edmund Burke School (DC) where he worked for 14 years. In 1996, Jeremy co-founded the SportsChallenge Leadership Academy. Jeremy has facilitated over 100 leadership and coaching workshops throughout the country for SportsChallenge and the Stanford University based Positive Coaching Alliance. Additionally, he has presented at local conferences for the Association of Maryland Independent Schools and Landon's Conference on Ethics and Leadership as well as at national conferences for the American Association for University Women, Up2Us, the Urban Soccer Collaborative and the Independent School Health Association. Jeremy has been the Executive Director of SportsChallenge since 2007.
Jim Ehrenhaft
Jim Ehrenhaft has taught and coached at St. Albans School in Washington, DC since the fall of 1987. Head cross country coach at both St. Albans and its sister school National Cathedral since 1998 (and head track & field coach at St. Albans from 2005-2008 and at National Cathedral since 2001), Ehrenhaft has led St. Albans to 8 Interstate Athletic Conference cross country titles and 4 Maryland/DC Private School cross country state championships, and National Cathedral to 6 Independent School League cross country titles and 2 Maryland/DC Private School state championships during that time. Ehrenhaft was named the The Washington Post DC girls track coach of the year in 2007, DC boys cross country coach of the year in 2006, 2007, and 2009, and DC girls cross country coach of the year in 2006 and 2007. Ehrenhaft was also named The Washington Post All-Met boys cross country coach of the year in 2009. Ehrenhaft is a 1983 graduate of St. Albans and a 1987 graduate of Haverford College, where he captained the cross country and track teams. He earned his Masters degree in Religion from George Washington University. He has taught religion, history, and English classes at St. Albans.
Pam Herath
Coach Herath went to Radford University where she was a scholarship, record-setting volleyball player. She earned her Masters Degree from James Madison University where she served as the graduate assistant to the Athletic Director. In 1989, Pam began her career at the Edmund Burke School (DC) where she taught health and coached volleyball, basketball and track/field. In 1991, she became the Athletic Director at Burke and in 2007 the Dean of Students—while continuing to coach along the way. Pam’s workshop leadership with the Positive Coaching Alliance has served her well in her work with SportsChallenge. Coach Herath is one of the team leaders of the SportsChallenge National Coaches Institute.
Bobby Rue
Coach Rue has coached basketball for twenty years at the high school and college levels. At St. Andrew's School in Delaware, where he also coached girls' varsity soccer, he led his boys' basketball teams to seven consecutive state tournament appearances. He coached the state's first McDonalds All-American, Eric Boateng, who went on to play at Arizona State and who led the PAC 10 in field goal percentage in 2009-10. Rue also worked at the Nike All-America camp where he coached several future NBA players. At the Calhoun School in New York City, he led the 2009-10 girls' varsity basketball team to a 15-6 record and a spot in the GISAL championship game. Coach Rue teaches film, writing, and literature at Calhoun. He has a BA from Haverford College and an MA from Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English.
Jeaney Garcia
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Ruben Nieves
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