Board of Directors

Board Responsibilities

The Clarksburg Sports Association (CSA) is directed and managed by experienced professionals who are committed to serving the youth and long term health of our community.

The Clarksburg Sports Association Board of Directors will serve to formalize and grow the organization in a manner consistent with the vision. The Board assists and advises the CSA President and Commissioners in the exercise of institutional responsibility, development and management of the CSA athletic programs.

The guiding concern of the Board is the growth and development of Clarksburg community youth who will ultimately participate in Montgomery County Public School athletic and other community based sports/physical education programs. The Board provides an important leadership perspective and plays an active role in advancing the mission of the CSA athletic program including efforts to inform the public about the shared vision for preparing student-athletes for productive and meaningful lives through athletics and higher education.

Director at Large - Wrestling - Scott Brenowitz

Scott Brenowitz and his family moved to Germantown in 2005 from central New Jersey. He works in DC as the Director of Finance for the Podesta Group, a government relations agency. Mr. Brenowitz holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Brenowitz has competed in football, wrestling, power lifting and track and field at the high school and college level. He’s been a high school strength coach and has lead seminars and power lifting exhibitions trying to raise awareness of steroid abuse.

Scott and his wife live in Clarksburg and have three kids who enjoy competing in CSA sports. Their oldest earned her second degree black belt in taekwando at age 10, plays basketball and softball. Their son was the recipient of the Chris Brown Sportsmanship Award in wrestling and plays football and baseball. Their youngest daughter is interested in soccer and swimming.

Human Resources Director - Lucy Cepeda

After graduating with a degree in health care, Lucy served as a registered LPN and dialysis nurse for BMA Metropolitan Washington Renal Dialysis Center in Bethesda, MD and San Antonio, TX. She has been a metro Maryland resident for 23 years and has been in operations management for the past 20 years. Lucy previously worked for the Deputy Director of the Information Awareness Office (IAO), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), assisting with day to day administrative, office management and infrastructure support. Lucy also attended American University in Washington, DC.

Lucy’s sports interests include running, volleyball and weight lifting as well as physical fitness and wellness development training.

Lucy currently lives in Clarksburg with her family and is the Business Development Operations Manager with Aptima, Inc. in Washington, DC.

Director at Large - Basketball - John Viqueira

John Viqueira is a lifelong resident of Montgomery County. He attended Winston Churchill High School, where he played Varsity football, baseball and basketball. In 1969 and 1970 the WCHS basketball was ranked as one of the top area teams, and John played with the team in the State Championship games at Maryland’s Cole Field House.

John attended East Carolina University, where he majored in Physical Education and played basketball at the point guard position. In 1971, the team earned the co-championship of the Southern Conference. He transferred to the University of Maryland, where he graduated as a Bachelor of Science with High Honors in the field of Physical Education.

Throughout his adult life, John has continued to play and coach both youth and adults in baseball and basketball. He has lived in the Boyds/Clarksburg area with his wife and children for 24 years.

Director at Large - Lacrosse - Ed Kostolansky

Ed Kostolansky is a native of Corning, New York He played lacrosse at Corning East High School and at Boston College. Following graduation, he played for the Croydon Lacrosse Club in London, England and the Potomac Lacrosse Club (Clyde’s LC) in the United States Club Lacrosse Association.

Ed has coached at Seneca Valley H.S. (MD), Paint Branch H.S. Lacrosse Club (MD), Corning East H.S. (NY), and the Croydon Lacrosse Club (London, England). Currently, Ed serves as the Head Scout for the Washington Bayhawks in Major League Lacrosse and is an Assistant Boys Lacrosse Coach at Clarksburg H.S. He was the Head Coach for the Slovakia National Lacrosse Team that competed in the 2008 European Lacrosse Championships in Lahti, Finland.

Ed was inducted into the Corning-Painted Post Hall of Fame in 1993 and the USLacrosse, Potomac Chapter Hall of Fame in 2005. He was named the National Interscholastic Lacrosse Association Man of the Year for the Washington, D.C. Area in both 1991 and 1996. He received the Maryland State Lacrosse Coaches Association Outstanding Service Award in 2003 and the Corning East Lacrosse Alumni Association “Giving Back to the Game” Award in 2004. He served as President of the Potomac Chapter of USLacrosse from 1995-98 and as Secretary for the Maryland State Lacrosse Coaches Association from 1994-2002. He coordinated the Washington Post Boys Lacrosse Top 20 Rankings from 1992-1999. He directed Montgomery County Summer High School and Youth lacrosse leagues from 1992-2002.

Ed has resided in the Germantown area since 1990 with his wife and three daughters, who have been active in a variety of youth and high school sports.

Director at Large - Tennis - Brian Fankhauser

Brian is a United States Professional Tennis Association Certified Professional who graduated from Emporia State University, an NCAA Division II program, where he earned a Bachelor of Science, Business Management. During his collegiate career, he won the NAIA District 10 Singles and Doubles Championships and played in the National Championships in 1992. He directed his own USTA/National Junior Tennis League for five years and was the Kansas District Coordinator for the program in 1993. He is also a member of Wilson Racquet Sports Advisory Staff and a former certified USTA/NTRP Mid-Atlantic Verifier. In his 14th year as Director of Tennis, Brian continues to improve and intensify the level of junior play and coordinates excellent junior and adult programs. Brian and his family live in Clarksburg, MD.

Chief Financial Officer - Kathy Sloan

Kathy grew up in Michigan. She attended Michigan Technological University where she received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration with a major in Accounting. She obtained certification in the State of Maryland as a Certified Public Accountant and has spent most of her career in public accounting.

Kathy is experienced with corporate, partnership, individual and nonprofit organizations both from the audit as well as the tax side. She has run her own accounting business for the last 10 years while subcontracting with a national CPA firm. In addition, Kathy spent 8 years with a real estate investment firm first as an asset manager and then as head of the investment communications group for a $3.5 billion real estate portfolio. As an asset manager her major function was to identify and resolve problems with the investment through communication and negotiation with management agents, general partners, housing agencies and lenders. This included review and approval of audited financial statements and tax returns, preparation of tax and cash flow projections, analysis of actual to budget comparisons, collection and analysis of monthly marketing and operating information, and analysis and application of legal documents. As head of the investment communications group, she improved investor reporting by creating Investment Benefit Summaries for over 150 partnerships that showed estimated tax and cash benefits from the investments. She also improved internal operations by standardizing forms and creating a department manual.

Presently, Kathy is the controller for a $8M commercial painting and wall covering contractor. Kathy and her family have lived in Montgomery County for over 24 years and lives in the Clarksburg Vicinity.

Executive Director - Kevin Hutto

Kevin has spent much of his career in sales and marketing, developing growth strategies for engineering software solutions and organizations. In a Business Development capacity for Bentley Systems, his role is to identify and manage global partnerships for the expansion of multiple engineering software product lines into emerging growth markets and industry segments. Kevin grew up in Frederick and attended Thomas Johnson High School and Frederick Community College.

At Bentley, he routinely participates as a consultant to multi-billion dollar capital engineering projects reviewing and recommending work process strategies and improvements. Working recently as a consultant to a leading engineering procurement contractor on a $15billion project, he helped identify and eliminate engineering work process bottlenecks resulting in a 10x increase in productivity.

Kevin has played an active role in county youth sports, managed project teams and budgets and has served on several community Leadership Boards. Kevin and his family have lived in Montgomery County for 18 years and are residents of Clarksburg.

Director at Large - Football - Steve Forsythe

Steve was an outstanding three-sport player at Williamsport High School. He not only excelled in sports but also in the classroom, graduating Sum Cum Laud, thirty-second in his class. After receiving numerous offers to play for major college institutions, Steve accepted a Senatorial Scholarship to Frostburg State University. He went on to become an Associate Press Little All American and a Kodak Division II All American and lead the nation in pass receiving for six consecutive weeks, finishing 5^th

Today, Steve still holds the NCAA Division II and III record of most receptions in a single game, 16. The Cleveland Browns signed him where he caught passes from Brian Sipe and played along side Oze Newsome. His rights were traded to the Green Bay Packers where he played beside John Jefferson and James Lofton. Steve went on to spend a season with the Jacksonville Bulls in the USFL playing beside Gary Clark.

Steve has spoken to youth in school assemblies, youth groups and professional organizations and high school athletic teams. He was the JV Football coach for Watkins Mill HS from 2004 - 2006. He is currently the head varsity football coach for Richard Montgomery HS. Steve and his family have lived in Montgomery County for the past 10 years.

Director at Large - Golf - Jim Estes

Jim Estes has played and taught golf professionally since 1988 and earned Class A membership in the PGA of America in 1993. In pursuing his fullest potential as a player and instructor, Jim has been coached by some of the most accomplished instructors in the game — teachers such as David Leadbetter, Jim Suttie, Jim Flick, and Mike Adams — as well as working alongside them as a teaching professional.

Jim’s playing accomplishments include earning exempt status on the PGA TOUR (with two top-15 finishes in 1998), playing in four U.S.Open Championships and one PGA Championship, and winning on the Nationwide Tour.

Jim has demonstrated outstanding proficiency at the highest level utilizing a holistic multi-disciplinary approach encompassing a golf specific conditioning program, mental training strategies, a specific swing model based on physical attributes, along with equipment fitting and course management.

Jim blends his experience as a player with years of academic study of the game of golf. His PGA Tour-proven knowledge of golf swing mechanics is equally balanced with his expertise in the physiology of the human body and his understanding of the psychology of the game. Jim is certified by Dr. Greg Rose of the Titliest Performance Institute as a golf fitness trainer and worked with several top sports psychologists as an instructor. Jim has also worked with Dr. David Wright, owner and founder of Mind Under Par Golf Schools, who created mental training exercises for measuring and analyzing mental performance. His knowledge of the capabilities and limitations of the human body and mind have helped him teach a wide range of students effectively, from beginners like army specialist and single-amputee Sean Lewis to collegiate athletes to Senior Tour players like Carl Lohren.

Jim is currently the PGA Director of Instruction at Olney Golf Park. Jim and his family have lived in Montgomery County for 8 years.

A youth sports program built on proven philosophies and experiences from successful coaches, athletes and sports organizations in Montgomery County and across the nation.