Meet the Team
Cindy Stern
President
Cindy Stern earned her B.A. from University of California, Santa Barbara and teaching certification from the University of Missouri, St. Louis.
Her coaching career began in the year 1999 at Parkway Central High School in St. Louis, where she was a teacher, basketball and softball coach for four years.
After taking a few years off when her children were young, she began coaching youth basketball here in the Tri-Valley area 6 years ago, coaching multiple levels of basketball, including CYO, Town of Danville, YMCA and AAU boys and girls teams.
Cindy has a passion for using the game of basketball to build confidence and teach life lessons to student athletes.
Michelle Clawson
Chief of Staff
Michelle graduated from Cal Poly, SLO with a degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance.
Upon graduating, she and Matt Clawson turned their Cal Poly senior project into a business plan. Securing investors, they moved to Florida and opened Xtreme Juice in Orlando. Over the next five years, they opened three more smoothies restaurants in Orlando and Tampa areas.
During this time, Michelle began teaching high school history and coaching the school's dance team. Her talented dancers not only won the Florida State Championship in Pom, but secured a UDA National Finalist title for the first time in school history.
Michelle is thrilled with the opportunity to combine her entrepreneurial experience with her passion for helping student athletes to support the growth of Wolfpack Norcal.
Matt Clawson
VP/Director of Girls' Division
Matt loves coaching youth sports and working to share his passion for the game of basketball. Matt's love of the game started early as the son of John Clawson, winner of both a gold medal for Team USA at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, and an ABA Championship with the Oakland Oaks in 1969.
Matt played at San Ramon Valley High School under coach John Raynor, leading SRVHS to an NCS Title in 1989. Matt went on to play at Cal Poly, where he finished his career in 1994 among Cal Poly's top-ten career leaders in points, steals, assists and three pointers.
Matt believes youth sports has evolved to a place where there is too much business and not enough fun. Youth sports primarily exist as a vehicle for our children to play. His goal is promote good sportsmanship, strong work ethic, and a love for the sport. Winning is secondary. Half our kids will lose each game, but all should have an opportunity to love playing and enjoy the competition.
Michael Herrerias
VP/Director of Boys' Division