Connie Barnes - Camp Director

Connie played a variety of sports growing up and excelled at Squash, Basketball, Football, and Track and field activities. She played State grade level Squash in Australia for 15 years before arriving in Bethesda, Md in 2002. For a decade she was the Racquets coordinator for all racquet sports for a 20 club facility. Connie owns 2 clubs in Chevy Chase, Md and Charlotte, NC. Connie’s passion is junior sports and she has taken her DC program from a handful of juniors in 2002 when she arrived to over 150 players. Connie as an inaugural member of TPAC the Professional association of Coaches and a Level 2 National Squash Coach. Academically, Connie studied Psychology at BA, and Honors levels. Her interest is in the whole child including areas of self esteem and confidence. She also has working with professional athletes, College students and teams to help improve mental strength.

Co-Director: Steve Boyle
is a former Division 1 basketball player (Manhattan College). In NYC and Seattle, WA, he coached soccer, basketball, track and field and x-country. In Seattle, he founded Boyle’s Cougar Hoop Camp for Girls, the largest all-girls camp in the state of Washington at the time. Steve was a school counselor in West Hartford for 20 years where he has coached Varsity basketball, track and field, freshman and JV soccer. Steve currently is the Principal at Crossover Consulting Group where his most recent project was helping to develop the Whittle School & Studios Physical Literacy Development model on their campuses in Washington DC, Brooklyn, NY, Shenzhen and Suzhou, China. Steve is also the Advisory Board Chair at the National Association of Physical Literacy and is on the board of The Miracle League of Connecticut. A life long lover of sport, Steve still regularly plays basketball, tennis or soccer and loves to run and spin!

Co-Director: Kerry Boyle
is a former Division 1 lacrosse and field hockey player (Bucknell University). She has coached basketball, lacrosse and tennis in Baltimore, NYC and Seattle, WA. Kerry recently left a 30 year career in teaching and athletic administration. After starting as a teacher in Maryland and New York City, Kerry served as an Athletic Director in Seattle for 5 years and at the Watkinson School in Hartford, CT where she also coached Varsity lacrosse for 22 years. An active member in Connecticut politics, Kerry now devotes her time to growing 2-4-1 Sports internationally with a focus on bringing physical literacy and sport sampling to underserved populations. Kerry models the "Active for Life" philosophy as she can be seen daily in some form of vigorous exercise or fun filled play!