Westling Named Aliso Niguel Athletic Director

San Clemente High teacher Kurt Westling has been named athletic director at Aliso Niguel High School, which will open this fall.

Westling, 35, is a mathematics teacher at San Clemente and a coach at Capistrano Valley. He worked with the receivers on the football team and headed junior varsity girls’ basketball and softball teams.

“I really wanted input into the staffing of the new school to make sure Aliso Niguel has a top-notch coaching and teaching staff--guys who can win, but also guys who can work together and make all the sports successful here,” Westling said. “From all the people that have applied, I’m sure that we will get a top-notch coaching staff.”

Westling was named athletic director Friday by Aliso Niguel’s principal, Dr. Denise Danne.

Westling said he will be an assistant varsity football coach for the Wolverines and also will coach a lower-level girls’ sport, either basketball or softball, “because I want to keep in tune with what’s going on on both sides.”

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San Clemente girls’ cross-country Coach Brian Scherbart has been named the school’s athletic director. Scherbart has been a successful girls’ track and field and cross-country coach at the school, and also coached girls’ basketball in the 1970s.

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Jon Wimbish, a quarterback from Huntington Beach, will play football at Princeton next season, Oiler Coach George Pascoe said Friday.

Wimbish, a two-year starter, completed 108 of 222 passes for 1,664 yards and seven touchdowns. He also gained 561 yards rushing and scored two touchdowns.

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Susie Teitsworth, a 5-foot-8 outside hitter from St. Margaret’s, has committed to Bucknell, according to Candace Werve, her club volleyball coach. A first-team all-Academy League selection who plays for the Mission Valley Volleyball Club, Teitsworth also considered Cornell, UC Santa Barbara, and Santa Clara University.