Emilie Jewell joins us again for her 4th summer as the Head Soccer Director/Head Canteen. She is a recent graduate from Holland College in Prince Edward Island, Canada finishing with a diploma in Sport and Leisure Management and also a recent graduate of the University of New Brunswick with a Bachelor of Recreation Studies. During her soccer career, her college team pulled off a gold medal in the ACAA championship and ranked 6th place in the CCAA. Emilie has since retired from competitive soccer but she will continue to give back to the sport both as a coach and a mentor to future athletes. Emilie is extremely excited to spend another great summer at TLC and looking forward to seeing old faces and making new friends on the soccer field.

Tom Tegeler joins us again this summer as the Basketball Director. Tom is best known in these parts as the fine young head varsity football coach at New Paltz. There was a time when he was better known for his stellar performances on the baseball diamond. His college alma mater, however, hadn't forgotten his efforts. A few years ago, St. Bonaventure University honored "Tom Terrific" by naming him one of the newest members of the SBU Athletics Hall of Fame. In being inducted, Tegeler will join the likes of legendary major league manager John McGraw and NBA great Bob Lanier. In college, Tegeler was a three-time Atlantic 10 all-star catcher. After graduating in 1995, he stayed on to serve as a Bonnie's assistant baseball coach for two years. He then played pro ball for the Albany Diamond Dogs in the Northeast League before taking the head coaching job in 1999 at Ulster County Community College where he rebuilt that program. In 2001 he was named the head football coach at New Paltz High. Tegeler is a 1991 graduate of Rondout Valley where he was a three-sport standout. In addition to football and baseball, he also played basketball.

Javier Pariente ( "Javi"), one of our tennis directors, was born in 1983 in Madrid, Spain. He started to play tennis at the early age of 6. Javi is healthy and sporty and loves to practice any sport as much as possible. He has played both soccer and tennis for many years. Javi has played some very important tennis tournaments in Europe with some of today's professional players - Verdasco, Nadal, Robredo, Murray, Seppi and Andreev to name a few. He has been ranked Top 150 in Spain, but gave up playing professional tennis to be a coach and obtain a computer science degree. Javi has coached in the USA, Portugal, France, Italy and Spain. Nowadays he works as an engineer and runs a tennis club in Madrid. Javi also loves to SURF on his time-off and looks forward to meeting all of you on the courts this summer!

Lluis Visa is back for his second year as a co-director of our tennis program. He is 27 years old and has 2 bachelors degrees. One is in Physical Education and Training and the other is in Business. He also has 2 masters in Physical Training and Education. Lluís is a National Professional Coach from the European Registry of Tennis Professionals. Lluís started playing tennis when he was 8 years old and has played in professional tournaments since the age of 17. Since then, he has been coaching tennis at Club de Tennis Lleida. Lluís has worked in 2 other American camps as a Tennis Specialist and Tennis Director. In 2004, he worked in Clearwater with a group of 15 Spanish tennis players who were hoping to get a scholarship to study in a university in the USA. Nowadays, Lluís works in a High School in Spain as a teacher of Physical Education. He also coaches tennis and plays as a semi-professional soccer player.

Jaymie Harrington joins us again this summer as the Hockey Director. He comes from a town right outside Boston, Ma. Jaymie has been playing hockey since age 3. After playing for two years in the United States Hockey League, he went to Canisius College in Buffalo, NY. After playing four years of NCAA Division 1 hockey, he chose to hang up his skates and grab a whistle. Jaymie transitioned from one side of the bench to the other and took an assistant coaching position at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, NH. After one season, he was promoted to the head coaching position where he remains today. Away from the rink, he enjoys golf, tennis, Red Sox baseball and spending the summer with his fiance Emilie. Jaymie is looking forward to seeing all the new and familiar faces this summer at Timber Lake as we prepare again for the Gordon Cup Tournament!

Tom Nowak comes to Timber Lake this summer as our Baseball/Softball Director. He is very excited for his first summer at Camp. Tom comes from Chicago, Illinois and one of his biggest passions in life is coaching. He has also coached his four children who played a wide variety of sports. Tom currently coaches high school girls varsity softball. He enjoys helping children learn the sport and loves seeing them work to improve their skill level while making friends and having fun!