Blake Kaplan
Executive Director
Blake Kaplan is the Executive Director of GP Sports Camps and oversees all year-round camp operations, curriculum development, and staff recruitment. Blake has over 10 years experience with summer camps in the DC area. He has been involved with every aspect of Sports medicine, trains athletes from the professional to adolescent level, certified by NSCA and continues to represent SPARQ, Nike’s elite trainer program. Currently, Blake serves as the Director of Strength and Conditioning and assistant coach at Georgetown Prep. Blake has a strong commitment to the physical and mental development of adolescents, he continues to strive to create the most productive and innovative environment to develop athletes of the future.
Rita Laddbush
Assistant Director
Rita Laddbush is the Assistant Director at GP Sports Camps. She is involved in year round operations and is responsible for camper enrollment, staff recruitment/development, and team training. Rita is a Maryland native from Silver Spring and attended high school at the Academy of the Holy Cross. There she was actively involved in sports specifically soccer, basketball, and softball.
Joe Shea
Director of Operations
Joe Shea is the Director of Operations for GP Sports Camps and is responsible for the day-to-day operations for all camps. From the start of the day until the finish, his operations team ensures that each camp family’s experience is the best possible. Joe is also involved in curriculum development, staff relations, camper/parent interactions, and daily camp needs. Joe grew up in Bowie, MD and is a graduate of Gonzaga College High School. He currently attends the University of Maryland and is achieving a bachelor’s degree in Agriculture and Resource Economics and General Business.
Jack d’Epagnier
Assistant to the Director of Operations
Jack d’Epagnier is the Assistant to the Director of Operations at GP Sports Camps. He assists Joe Shea in leading the operations team. Jack grew up in Westminster, MD and graduated from Loyola Blakefield High School in Towson. He currently attends Saint Joseph’s University and is achieving a bachelor’s degree in Marketing. Jack is excited for his third summer developing athletes as a part of the GP Sports Camps Team!
Our Camp Coaches
Todd Benke
Baseball
Todd Benke, the Georgetown Prep JV baseball coach, has previous coaching experience at both the youth and collegiate levels. A graduate of Walt Whitman HS, Todd played in the Maryland Crown All-Star Game and for Team Maryland, before continuing his career at the United States Naval Academy. As a four-year starter at 3B/SS, multiple all-conference and all-region selections landed him in the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame. He still stands on the top ten lists for 49 season and career offensive categories.
Herb Krusen
Boys Basketball Camp
Girls Basketball Camp
Coach Herb Krusen is in his first year as Georgetown Prep’s Head Varsity Basketball Coach. A former men’s college head coach and long time men’s college assistant. Krusen has been very involved in coaching youth basketball in the Montgomery County area over the last 10 years. He recently served as the head coach of the Maryland Elite girl’s AAU basketball team that was very successful on the national level. In all, 10 of the players that participated on the team ended up receiving scholarships on the Division 1 level. Krusen coached at seven different colleges, including Wake Forest, George Mason, Old Dominion, Loyola, and James Madison. Krusen played at East Carolina University, where he stands as the 14th all time leading scorer with 1115 points. Coach Krusen brings over 30 years of basketball camp experience to Georgetown Prep.
Paul Butler
Football Camp
Lisa Tehan
Girls Field Hockey Camp
Girls Lacrosse Camp
Lisa is currently the Physical Education Teacher at St Jane de Chantal in Bethesda, Maryland. Lisa comes from and wealth of experience in the field of girls lacrosse and field hockey. A native of Moorestown, New Jersey, Lisa played her college lacrosse as a four-year varsity lacrosse captain at Glassboro State College. During her career at Glassboro, Lisa earned All-American accolades while capturing the school’s single season and career scoring records with 63 and 163 goals respectively. After graduating from Glassboro, Lisa immediately turned her focus and passion for lacrosse to coaching the sport: first as a Graduate Assistant and then as the Assistant Lacrosse Coach at Glassboro. Since moving to Bethesda, Lisa has coached several elite girls lacrosse teams and attended many US Lacrosse National Youth Festivals. Lisa is entering her third summer of coaching Girl’s Lacrosse Camp at Prep and will lead the great staff of the first-year of Field Hockey Camp as well.
Dan Paro
Golf Camp
Guy Fraiture
Boys Soccer Camp
Guy Fraiture has been Georgetown Prep’s head varsity soccer coach since 1978. In his 32 years at Prep, Coach Fraiture, a member of Georgetown Prep’s Athletic Hall of Fame, has won 11 IAC championships including four consecutive IAC titles with Hall of Fame player A. J. Wood. Equally impressive was his 32 game win streak. In 1994, the United States Soccer Federation named Coach Fraiture Belgian Ambassador in recognition of his many contributions to soccer in the Washington, D.C. area.
Frans Aarts
Boys Soccer Camp
Girls Soccer Camp
With over 40 years of soccer coaching experience, Frans brings a wealth of knowledge not only in soccer, but in youth sports in general to GP Sports Camps. Born in the Netherlands, Frans has held the position of Director of Coaching for FC Etzella, worked on numerous summer camps, and overseen adult programs as well. After moving permanently the United States in 2005, Frans has taken the position of Director of Youth Programs for Toca Juniors – a club out of Potomac Maryland. Frans also serves as the Head Coach of the U18 Bethesda Arsenal – a top ranked team in the United States and is only one of few professional soccer coaches from the Netherlands currently coaching in the states.
Kevin Giblin
Boys Lacrosse Camp
Mike Kubik
Boys Lacrosse Camp
Wrestling Camp
Mike Kubik has been the head wrestling coach at Georgetown Prep since 2002. Coach Kubik has won 6 consecutive IAC Championships and led Prep to a 2nd place finish in the state of Maryland in 2010. A graduate of Duke University and Stanford University, Mike Kubik is a favorite in the classroom as a Latin teacher. Besides teaching, Coach Kubik brings GP Sports Camps a wealth of coaching experience at the youth, high school, and collegiate level. He has been an assistant coach on Prep’s nationally ranked lacrosse team for 17 years. Kubik also coached middle school lacrosse and football and spent time as an assistant lacrosse coach at Penn State University.