JV Girls Soccer

David Woo, who graduated from Harvard cum laude and formerly taught at Phillips Exeter Academy and Northwood School, teaches math and coaches the girls’ varsity tennis and the girls' JV soccer teams. His favorite Winterim program is Mind Stretch. At Exeter, he was the faculty advisor to the Asian Student Society. David’s side interests include soccer (he plays in a local men’s league), downhill skiing, and the Asian board game Go. It isn’t unusual for him to take students with him to soccer practices or the nearby ski slopes. Mr. Woo says his most formative, somewhat recent professional development work was a three-week National Science Foundation-funded conference at Boston College aimed at implementing discrete mathematics into the high school curriculum. Many of the ideas, he says, have already been used in LA’s Math 4 curriculum. The 2006 recipient of the Departmental Chair for Excellence in Teaching, David lives off campus with his wife Laurie, a reference librarian, and their children Chris and Katie ’08.

Courtney Cronin graduated magna cum laude from Colby College in 2010, earning Phi Beta Kappa, Honors in history, and Distinction in French and history. She pursued her love of all things French and all things historical by majoring in French studies and history. At Colby, Ms. Cronin competed on the Mock Trial team, making it to nationals twice, and even won an American Mock Trial Association Outstanding Witness Award for her portrayal of Dr. Jordan Lee, Chief CSI. She was able to travel extensively during her four years in college, and Ms. Cronin spent a year and a half of her studies in France. Living in Dijon for a semester and in Paris for a year, she studied French language, grammar, phonetics, culture, history, art, and theatre. Living in France turned her into quite the food connoisseur, as she now loves eating out and cooking in. During her time abroad, Ms. Cronin traveled to England, Scotland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Austria, Croatia, and Romania. For the past six summers, she has worked in Maine as a camp counselor, directing the landsports department, teaching tennis and lacrosse while also helping out in evening program. When not speaking French, Ms. Cronin enjoys exercising, cooking, playing tennis, traveling and challenging her friends to a game of Trivial Pursuit.