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Scott Werkhoven ’93 has started his fourth season coaching the Westbrook (Conn.) High School baseball team, a position in which he helped the team win its first league championship. In fact, it was the school’s first title in any sport.
Werkhoven came to Westbrook in 1999 after working in sales and installation for Georgia Professional Sprinklers in Atlanta.
“I was going to take a year off (after graduation from Lafayette) and it turned into four,” he says. “Then I decided to get serious about a long-term desire to teach and coach.”
He returned from Atlanta in 1997 and earned a masters degree in education from the University of New Haven. Werkhoven also teaches high school science at Westbrook after spending his first two years teaching middle school students.
Werkhoven’s father was a coach, but his desire to follow that path was piqued at Lafayette when a community league appealed to his fraternity, Phi Gamma Delta, for help coaching eight- to 10-year-olds. He started as a sophomore and continued with the program until graduation.
“I had such a good time that I decided to stick with it,” says Werkhoven, a biology graduate.