Kendall Dudley
Head of Mentoring
Sidwell Friends ’24
Stacey D. Stewart
Stacey D. Stewart is the President and CEO of March of Dimes, where she leads the organization’s strategy, vision and operations. Prior to joining March of Dimes Stacey served as U.S. President of United Way Worldwide, the country’s largest nonprofit organization. A business veteran, Stewart has also held a number of senior roles, including Chief Diversity Officer and Senior Vice President for the Office of Community and Charitable Giving at Fannie Mae and President and Chief Executive Officer for the Fannie Mae Foundation. Additionally, Stewart has an extensive background in finance and investment banking, having served as Vice President for Pryor, McClendon, Counts & Co., and as an investment banker at Merrill Lynch.
Stacey holds an MBA in finance from the University of Michigan and a B.A. in economics from Georgetown University. She also holds honorary degrees from Trinity University, Morgan State University, Texas Southern University, Lincoln University and Alabama A&M University.
A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Stacey is the mother of two girl student-athletes who has excelled in basketball, lacrosse, volleyball and track and field.
Fred Reynolds
Fred Reynolds is a highly respected and knowledgeable higher education administrator. With more than eighteen years of Division I intercollegiate athletics experience, he brings incredible insight into the college and university recruiting process to the SMF. As Assistant Director of Compliance, he oversees NCAA governance for 16 Division I programs.
Prior to coming to American University, Fred was the Director of Compliance at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmittsburg, Maryland and Associate Director of Academics and Special Assistant to the Athletic Director at Delaware State University.
Fred is a native of Houston, where he was an outstanding basketball player at Episcopal High School. He holds Bachelor’s degree from Eastern Michigan University, where he played basketball and an MBA from Albany State University. He currently lives in Washington, DC, with his wife and two young children, both competitive athletes.
Dana Hollish Hill
Dana serves as a Broker and Coach at JPAR Stellar Living, a real estate brokerage she runs with two partners. She has over 20 years of experience representing buyers and sellers in D.C., VA and M.D. and serves on the Professional Standards Committee for the Greater Capital Area Association of REALTORS.
As a former high school basketball player and mother of two outstanding girl student-athletes, one on the Princeton Women’s Basketball team, the other on the Churchill High School Girls VarsityTeam in Maryland, Dana has seen firsthand the positive impact competitive sports can have on girls. She is a member of the Upsilon Gamma Chapter of Phi Beta Psi, a civic sorority that raises money for cancer research.
Fun fact: Dana played basketball against another famous Dana…Dana Owens (aka Queen Latifah), in the New Jersey girls basketball championship.
Chad Ricardo
There is no greater journalist and media champion for high school sports in the greater Washington, DC area than Chad.
Chad’s passion for DC-area sports began nearly ten years ago through a partnership he created with the D.C. State Athletic Association. The core of the relationship focused on providing great local media coverage for high school athletic programs and the students many had never heard of. Through his hard work and dedication, the opportunity came to host his very own podcast, “The Ricardo Report” on Fox Sports 1040am.
In recent years, Chad has anchored coverage of high school sports with NBC Sports Washington and co-hosted “Hi-Def High School” airing on ABC. He is also the on-air sports analyst and “voice” for all Howard University athletics.
He is a native of Hampton, Virginia, where he played football at Bethel High School. Chad is a graduate of James Madison University with a degree in media arts and design and a graduate certificate in visual communications from the University of Phoenix, Chad Ricardo has dedicated his professional life to showcasing the talents of our youth.
It has always been important to Chad to connect with the community—a source of information for young people and parents alike. He cares and subsequently invests his time into the growth and development of our student-athletes.
Chad lives in Maryland with his wife and young son.
Tamika Dudley
As an athlete, Coach Dudley was a two-time hall of fame inductee in both high school and college. After college, she became assistant coach at the University of Wilmington in North Carolina. In 2011, Coach Dudley became the head girls’ basketball coach at Woodbridge High School. At Woodbridge, she accumulated over 155 wins and appeared in the Virginia 6A State tournament in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018. In 2019, the Lady Vikings were District, Regional, and State champions, winning the first girls basketball state championship in school history. Coach Dudley was named the 2019 Cardinal District Coach of the Year, Regional Coach of the Year, Virginia class 6 Coach of the Year, USA Today Virginia Coach of the Year, and Washington Post All-Met Coach of the Year. Most recently named NHSBCA Wooden Legacy Coach of the Year in the District of Columbia.
In 2019 Coach Dudley accepted the coaching position at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC. In her first season, she led her team to a 26-6 season, becoming the first team in program history to win the regular season ISL championship. In 2020 the team advanced to the D.C. State Championship and Dudley was later named DCSAA Coach of the year and ISL Coach of the Year.
Coach Dudley enters her third year at Sidwell Friends School, where she coaches 3 FIBA USA gold medalists and four players who are nationally ranked in ESPN’s top 25. Coach Dudley also coaches her daughter, who is the # 4 ranked player in the class of 2024, is a FIBA u16 gold medalist, a member of the Jr. NBA Court of leaders, and Nike Game Growers ambassador. Dudley has also coached club basketball for the past 14 years.
Leah Zerwitz
Leah is a Junior at Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, DC. She is a competitive multi-sport athlete, an honor student, and dedicated to making valuable contributions to her school and surrounding community. Leah’s first love was basketball. She has played for recreational and club teams since elementary school and has played on her middle school and high school teams. Leah informally was introduced to volleyball in 8th grade. During the pandemic, she devoted time and effort to developing her skills and knowledge through clinics and her participation on a club team. This fall, she served as a co-captain of Wilson’s DCSAA and DCIAA championship team. And this coming summer, Leah will be traveling to Israel to represent the United States in the Maccabiah Games on the U18 volleyball team. Through her participation in team sports, Leah has developed an appreciation for teamwork and collaboration, discipline, humility, and resilience. In addition, she has made great friends and keeps fit, which enables her to comfortably pursue her other passion – eating.
