Leadership Team

Jeremy Edwards grew up in Washington, D.C. and attended St. Albans School serving as a senior prefect and two-sport captain. 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 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 Master’s degree in Leadership Studies from Stanford University's School of Education. He taught, coached, served as the Dean of Students and directed the Leadership Program at the Edmund Burke School (DC) where he worked for 15 years.

In 1996, Jeremy co-founded the SportsChallenge Leadership Academy. He has facilitated over 250 leadership workshops for students, parents, coaches and faculty throughout the country for SportsChallenge and the Stanford University based Positive Coaching Alliance. He has presented at over a dozen conferences, sat on numerous panels and served as a keynote speaker. He has coached middle, high school and college athletes in over 1,000 contests, and has been the Executive Director of SportsChallenge since 2007. Jeremy lives in DC with his wife, Amy Nakamoto, and their toddlers, Marcus, Austin and Owen.

You can reach Jeremy via email at jeremy@scleadershipacademy.org

Liz Koster, originally from New Jersey, attended Montclair High School where she captained the varsity soccer, swimming and softball teams. She went on to graduate from Haverford College in 2004, where she obtained her B.A. in Psychology and captained the women's varsity soccer team. While at Haverford, she joined the SportsChallenge family in 2001 as a member of the Girls Soccer staff. Liz later pursued her education at University of Pennsylvania and graduated with her Master's in Social Work. She then moved on to work as a school social worker at Elwyn Seedlings, an early intervention program for children with autism. After coaching and teaching in the SportsChallenge system for 8 years, Liz accepted a year-round leadership position with the organization in 2010 as Director of Admissions and Program Coordinator.

You can reach Liz via email at liz@scleadershipacademy.org

Originally from the Bronx, Kodi Shay lettered in football, basketball, and baseball at St. Andrew's School (DE). Coach Shay received his BA from Muhlenberg College (PA) where he earned Conference Player of the Year and Division III All-America accolades. Post college, Kodi went to law school until the call of mentoring youth proved too great. Kodi has spent the past four years as a two- sport varsity coach and admissions officer at St. Andrew's (DE) and then at Christ School (NC) where he helped guide the nationally ranked basketball team to a state title. Kodi has worked with SportsChallenge for six years, most recently as Director of the boys basketball staff at the Summer Leadership Academy.