Judges Spotlights: Alumni and Internships

Morgan Collins '25 is studying abroad in the rain forests of Costa Rica during the summer before her junior year on the women's soccer team. Learn more about Morgan, who will be chronicling her days in Central America.

Our Alumni Spotlight series profiles Marlee Nork, a three-time All-UAA setter who is now a social impact strategist in her hometown of Chicago.

Our Alumni Spotlight series profiles Marissa (Rubin) Pick '07, a strategic consultant on Digital Transformation. She is also a member of the Friends of Brandeis Athletics Executive Board

Our Alumni Spotlight series profiles Pia McCusker '92, who is a Senior Managing Director and the Global Head of Cash Management at State Street Global Advisors.

Our Alumni Spotlight series profiles Ryan Healy '16, who is an Advocacy Manager at Feeding New York State, a non-profit working to help build a hunger-free New York.

Our Alumni Spotlight series returns to visit with women's basketball All-American Jessica Chapin '10, who is now the Director of Athletics at American International College in Springfield!

Our Alumni Spotlight visits with Pam Vaughan '90 a three-sport athlete at Brandeis who went on to have a successful high school coaching career at Nashoba Regional.

Our Alumni Spotlight visits with Nina Sayles of the women's fencing team, who has continued her career on the strip and behind the scenes.

This summer, our spotlight series talks to alumni who have followed our 2022 Hall of Fame inductees into the coaching profession to find out what lessons they have learned and carried through their careers. Today, Ben Applefied '14, now the U-12 soccer coach for Inter Miami.

This summer, our spotlight series talks to alumni who have followed our 2022 Hall of Fame inductees into the coaching profession to find out what lessons they have learned and carried through their careers. Up first, Bryan Haley '99, current head baseball coach at Endicott.

The former Brandeis fencer received her masters from Harvard's Chan School of Public Health and Graduate School of Design as she looks to improve the food system.

Sarita Biswas '16 is a second-generation Brandeis tennis player, following her father Sera '84's footsteps. She graduated with honors and BS and MS degrees in Biology, working in pharmaceuticals and health care consulting since graduation.

Sophie Trachtenberg '21 was a three-time Academic All-UAA selection for the women's basketball team. After graduating, she has remained at Brandeis as a Presidential Fellow.

Kenny Graves '08 was a captain of one of the most successful Judges' teams of the last two decades. After becoming Brandeis's career leader in assists, he worked in the NBA as an assistant coach with the Boston Celtics until last year.

An IFA gold medalist and two-time Northeast Fencing Conference champion, Damien Lehfeldt is a manager and consultant in the Northern Virginia area who is still active as a fencing coach as well.

Colt Tegtmeier '22 tells about his summer coaching tennis in South Carolina and in New York City.

After finishing up her career as a swimmer at Brandeis, Robin (Zebrowitz) Harpak '04 has been involved in higher education since 2009.

Aria Smith '23 tells about her work as an art restorer in Washington, D.C.

Sydney Goldman '22 earned her citizenship and represented Israel at the 2021 European championships in Italy.

Marty Zelnik came to Brandeis because of a basketball upset and made the most of his time on campus, lettering in five different sports in his athletic career before moving on to become a successful architect.

Evan Glass of the Men's Soccer team tells us about his internship with an orthopedic surgeon during his leave of absence in 2020-21.

Kevin Trotman split his time at Brandeis in two different kinds of shoes, basketball and track and field. Now he designs them for New Balance.

A senior captain who was part of the first-ever NCAA tournament victory by the women's soccer team, Jessica Schulman '12 has been part of the Brandeis admissions staff since 2016.

Nikki Cote '15 was presented with the Sid Goldfader Award of Valor as a senior. She grew up partially deaf, but it didn't stop her on the softball field, where she was named MVP of the ECAC tournament as senior. Since 2019, she has been a physician assistant at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut.

Captain of the 2000-01 Judges, Marsha Williams is the co-founder of Kairos PDX, a non-profit in Portland, Oregon, focused on closing racial achievement and opportunity gaps for systematically marginalized children.

A UAA epee champion and NCAA qualifier, Steve Most '94 now teaches psychology halfway around the world at the University of New South Wales in Australia.

A slick-fielding shortstop, Steve Grenham '95 is now making assists as an elementary school principal in Medfield, Massachusetts.

Jess Spear '21 was an important part of the Brandeis Library this summer as a member of their COVID-19 Committee.

Mark Murdy '21 remained on campus this summer to pursue his physics research. Learn more!