Leadership & Coaches

Leadership Team

Alex Rubin

Assitant Director

Alex Rubin joined the RSA team in 2022 as Assistant Director. A high school and college athlete with a passion for camping, Alex spent many years as a camper and counselor at Camp Havaya and was also a staff member at Capital Camps and Camp Ramah in California. Prior to joining the RSA, Alex worked in student life roles at de Toledo High School in Los Angeles, most recently coordinating international exchange programs. He graduated from Northwestern University with a BA in Education and Social Policy and recently completed a master’s degree at University of Southern California in Social Entrepreneurship.

After playing various sports in high school, Alex spent four years on the Northwestern Ultimate Team, captaining the team during his senior season. Over the past decade he has coached middle school, high school, and college ultimate. He helped to found the team at de Toledo High School and in just four seasons, his team qualified for the state championships! Alex was named a runner up for the 2021 Coach of the Year in the college D-III division for his work coaching the men’s division team at the Claremont Colleges. Aside from camp, Alex enjoys hiking, baking soft pretzels, playing guitar, and long road trips.

Email: alex@ramahsport.org

Lisa Rubins

Senior Advisor

Lisa Rubins has been attending Jewish overnight camp since 1977 and lives #10for2. For almost three decades, Lisa has been a member of the Camp Yavneh community including time as the Assistant Director, Program Director, and Rosh Eidah.

Lisa knows that young adult staff members are the key to making camp magic happen which is why she loves to focus so much thought, time and energy on training and supporting them. She thoroughly invests herself in campers’ growth and development throughout the season.

When not in camp, Lisa is a veteran and well loved 5^th grade Judaic teacher at the Leffell School where she also serves as a department team leader.  Prior to that, Lisa taught at the Abraham Joshua Heschel School for 18 years.

Lisa graduated from UMass Amherst with a degree in education and received her masters degree at the Jewish Theological Seminary.  Lisa and her husband Scott live in White Plains, NY and are excited to start a new adventure at Ramah Sports Academy. Their son Jack, is a senior at Muhlenberg College.

Email: lisa@ramahsport.org

Amy Rosuck

Business Consultant

Amy arrived at Ramah in 2010 after a career working for the American Museum of Natural History, TIAA and Citibank. She left the corporate world to manage all aspects of business, finance, and facilities at Ramah Berkshires until 2019. The formation of Ramah Sports was an exciting chance to blend both her love of all things camp with sports. After spending countless hours driving her children to their baseball, soccer, basketball and softball games, she became an avid proponent of the importance of having time in the summer for the fun of camp combined with quality sports instruction. As Business Director, Amy is responsible for RSA’s business, finance, facilities, registrar and summer operations.

Coaching Staff

Head Basketball Coach

Lior Reshit My name is Lior Reshit, and I’m very excited to join the RSA community this summer. Basketball has been part of my life for 15 years, and I’ve been a professional basketball player since 2014.

This season, 2021/22 I have been playing in Hapoel Majd Al-Kurum, which reached the final four games of the National League in Israel. I’ve also played and coached in many basketball clubs in Israel, including Maccabi Haifa, Ironi Netanya, Hapoel Emek-Yizrael, Hapoel Lev-Hasharon, Maccabi TelMond, Hapoel Emek-Hefer, and Hapoel Marnin-Tivon.

Since 2014, I’ve been coaching boys and girls of different ages, from preschool to 9th grade students. In the 2020/21 season, my 8-9th grade girls team reached the final National Cup of Israel.

This summer, I will graduate with a B.Ed from the Academic College at Wingate. This year, I was a Physical Education teacher in Rabin High School in Tel-Mond and had the privilege of teaching 11th- and 12th-grade students and a 10th-grade special education class.

I can’t wait for the summer to start, to meet everyone, to start working with campers on their basketball skills, and thereby help their personal growth, confidence, and self-efficacy development, and most importantly, to enjoy this summer experience.

Head Soccer Coach

Conor Woods joins RSA from the Millikin University’s Men’s Soccer staff, where he serves as an assistant coach. Conor was also a coach at Knaresborough Town AFC in the United Kingdom, where he most recently served as the assistant coach after graduating from Mount Aloysius College in December 2019.

While attending Mount Aloysius, Woods played soccer for two seasons before suffering an injury that led him to serve as a student assistant coach for three seasons. As an athlete for the Mounties, Woods played outside back and was a member of the 2015 Allegheny Mountain Conference Championship team.

In his three seasons as a student assistant coach, Conor led all of the team training sessions, assisted with planning offseason strength and conditioning programs, and conducted individual training sessions with student-athletes. Additionally he was the head goalkeeper coach and ran the scouting of all of the team’s opponents. During this time, Conor was also a lead coach for International Soccer Camps through Challenger Sports Camps.

We can’t wait for Conor to lead our program, and he is excited too! Conor says: “I am looking forward to my first summer with Ramah Sports Academy. Originally I am from Leeds, England, and have been coaching in the U.S for the past six years. Soccer has given me endless opportunities, and I am excited to contribute my experience and knowledge to the players attending RSA so that their love of the game can grow for the sport that I am so passionate about! I can’t wait to get started this summer and be a part of Ramah Sports Academy’s great program.”