Stuart Weiss
President
stuart@sunshinestateathletics.com

Stuart started his career in athletics after he retired from the Tampa Police Department. For the past 17 years he has been enjoying coaching at the varsity level. In 2012, Stuart was elected the President of the SSAA by the conference membership. During his tenure, the SSAA has grown from (7) member schools in just varsity football, to the current 160+ member schools across 12 sports. Stuart is a graduate of Liberty University and is married to his wife, Joanna. He has five boys: Luke, Jacob, Zachary, Jackson and John Carter.

Zachary Shank
Vice President
zshank@evajax.com

Zach was born and raised in Jacksonville and attended Trinity Baptist College after high school. In 2012, he received a degree in Secondary Education and a minor in Sports Administration. While at Trinity he played four years of basketball where he was a four-time All-American. Upon graduating, he was hired on staff to be an assistant coach with the TBC men’s team. In 2014, he was named Athletic Director at Cornerstone Christian School where he had the privilege of starting and establishing the athletic program. In 2017, he and his wife moved to Raleigh, NC where he was the Athletic Director and Head Coach of boys and girls basketball at Neuse Christian Academy. In 2022, Zach and his family moved back to the Jacksonville area and accepted the position of Athletic Director at EVA. Zach is passionate about small school athletics and seeing small schools succeed. 

Coach Shank has been married to his wife, Emily, for 8 years and they have a 3-year-old daughter named Lennon. When not at school or in the athletic setting, Zach loves spending time with his family and enjoying the beach.

Greg Zugrave
Board Member
greg@sunshinestateathletics.com

Greg Zugrave teaches history, served as the History Department Chair and has been the head boys varsity basketball at Saint Edwards School in Vero Beach FL for the past five years. Greg received his BA from Hiram College, where he played basketball and served as an assistant coach. Greg went on to earn an MA in History at the University of North Carolina Wilmington where he served as an academic coordinator for the athletic department.

Gary Dreyer
Board Member
gdreyer@sevenrivers.org


 

Stephanie Shafer
Board Member
Stephanie.Shafer@royalpalmcharter.com

Stephanie Shafer has spent the past year on the Board for the Sunshine State Athletic Conference. She joins the Board after spending two years at Pineapple Cove Academy as Athletic Director. This past year she has served as a K-8 grade Athletic Director and Physical Education Teacher.  She comes to the Board after serving four years in collegiate athletics as an assistant women’s basketball coach at Eastern Florida State College. In her four years at Eastern Florida, Stephanie was responsible for the team’s strength and conditioning training and played major roles in recruiting, scouting opponents, scheduling, operations, and game strategy. She also mentored players scholastically. During her tenure, the Titans participated in the NJCAA Region 8/FCSAA Postseason Tournament the past three seasons, finishing as Championship runner-up in 2018. All Titan sophomore players in the past four seasons graduated and all players went on to four-year schools.

Prior to that position, Stephanie worked as an international recording technician at the Jesus Film Project. During her tenure, she traveled to more than 30 countries, 6 continents, and navigated operations management in a variety of cultures.

Native to Melbourne, Florida, Stephanie was a Cum Laude graduate from the University of Central Florida earning her Bachelor degree in Health, Psychology, and Social Science Education and will be graduating from the University of Florida in Sport Management this Spring. Her passion is building living trophies, seeing student athletes excel both in the classroom, in their sport, and in life. In her spare time, she also enjoys travel, outdoor activities, coffee, and rooting for UCF. 

Megan Ziegelhofer
Board Member
megan.ziegelhofer@mdcacademy.org

Megan Ziegelhofer, known as "Coach Z"  to most in the community, has served as the Director of Athletics at Mount Dora Christian Academy since 2017. Prior to that she worked as an elementary & secondary physical education teacher and was the Assistant Director of Athletics. Megan has spent her entire career in youth and highschool athletics. A graduate of Seminole High School in Sanford, FL where she excelled as a student-athlete earning an athletic scholarship to play college softball at Seminole State College. After a career ending injury, Megan decided to finish her degree at Keiser University where she earned her Bachelor's degree in Psychology.  From 2010-2022 Megan has served the youth community as a football commissioner and president for two large youth football and cheerleading organizations. Megan is extremely passionate about developing student-athletes. The vision for the MDCA program is to develop the whole student-athlete spiritually, mentally, emotionally, physically, and socially through athletics while competing at a high level. Megan is also very passionate about college athletics and getting student-athletes to the next level. Currently 36% of the student-athletes who have graduated from MDCA in the past 5 years are playing on college rosters across the country. 

Personal: Megan is married to Steven Ziegelhofer and has three sons Eddie (18), Fischer (15), and Braxton (5).

Jacob Spenn
Board Memberjspenn@sarasotachristian.org

Jacob Spenn is the athletic director and head football coach at Sarasota Christian. He is in his third year as an AD in Florida but prior to moving to Florida he worked for 15 years at Cypress Christian School in Texas. He served in various roles over that time including assistant AD, head football coach and other administrate roles over his time there. In Texas he was involved with TAPPS which is very similar in its goal and mission to the SSAA. Spenn is a graduate of Taylor University where played football and has a masters degree from the University of Illinois in Civil Engineering. He worked as an engineer prior to getting into athletics administration. He and his wife, Bethany, along with their 5 kids live in Sarasota. 

Sheldon Walker
Board Member Emeritus
narrowgate@embarqmail.com
 

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