2023 Summer Camp Coaching Staff

Colleen Kepner (Camp Director / Owner, she/her)
TUSC Founder, Owner, and Director Colleen Kepner comes from a long line of youth sports coaches, organizers, and educators. She began her Ultimate career playing for Texas Melee, and went on to play for and captain a number of club teams including Texas Showdown. Coach Kepner has been directing and coaching youth sports camps for over twenty years, such as the University of Texas RecSports Ultimate camp, the Nike Ultimate Camp, and the National Ultimate Training Camp (NUTC). With almost 20 years of teaching experience, Kepner always coached alongside her work in the classroom, founding and building programs at Murchison Middle School, Kealing Middle School, and more. Kepner has also served as USA Ultimate’s Girls Outreach Coordinator for the state of Texas, and currently sits on the Board of the Premier Ultimate League as a representative for the Austin Torch (Austin’s women’s and non-binary semi-professional ultimate team). In 2022, Kepner expanded TUSC to operate year-round youth ultimate playing opportunities and support local youth ultimate teams, players, coaches, and families.

Coach Kepner credits her love for this work to her mom — a trailblazing female athlete, educator, and youth coach for over 50 years — who instilled an appreciation for movement, community, character, and healthy competition in all of her teams, summer camps, athletic programs … and in her own kids. Those values drive TUSC’s model to this day.