EHS Names New Athletic Director and Football Coach

Head of School Charley Stillwell has announced new appointments to key positions for the 2021-22 school year, including two roles in the Athletics Department.

After 14 years at Episcopal, Jen Fitzpatrick, the School’s Girls’ Athletic Director, will oversee all boys’ and girls’ programs in the new position of Athletics Director. A skilled administrator with EHS since 2007, she has played a key role in the expansion of athletics facilities, including the construction of Hershey Athletics Center and the new track and field that will debut this spring. Just a year after her arrival, she began a partnership with St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes School to create the Seminary Hill Cup, now a beloved EHS tradition and a rallying point for the whole School each fall. Jen also has greatly expanded the social-media presence for athletics and helped Episcopal introduce live-streaming of games.

In the next couple years, she plans to continue developing resources for students who aspire to compete at the collegiate level. "We want to be thoughtful and creative about providing those athletes who hope to compete at the next level with what they need to both build their profiles and explore a wide variety of opportunities."

Jen was a three-sport athlete at the University of Rochester, making the all-conference team in lacrosse and earning All-American honors in soccer. She has coached both soccer and lacrosse at Episcopal.

Kadeem Rodgers will return to Episcopal next year as head coach and Assistant Athletic Director. He had previously been at EHS as an assistant football coach. Since 2019, Rodgers has been head football coach at Millbrook School in New York, where he was also deeply involved in campus life as Associate Director of Admissions; Co-Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; and dorm parent. At Millbrook, his team went 6-1 in 2019 in just its third year of competition following a nearly 40-year hiatus. Rodgers served from 2015-18 as Episcopal’s offensive and defensive line coach; the team went 27-9-1 over those four years and won two IAC championships. In 2020 Millbrook did not have any games due to Covid-19, but Rodgers grew the program both in numbers and spirit through on-field practices and a focus on strength and conditioning. He has an impressive background in strength training, which is instrumental in his coaching approach, and he previously served as a strength & conditioning coach (CSCS) in Washington, D.C. 
Read about the other exciting school leadership appointments here.