Current Westbrook High School Athletic Director, girls' tennis coach, and science teacher Paula Fitzgerald was recently inducted into the Connecticut High School Coaches Association's Hall of Fame. Fitzgerald began her coaching career by coaching girls' tennis at Old Saybrook High School from 1979-1980 and then at Westbrook High School starting in 1989 where she is still a coach. She began as the boys' tennis coach from 1996-1999 before she moved to the girls' team and her collective record as a tennis coach stands at 304-132. Her boys' tennis teams won one league title and one doubles championship, while her girls' tennis programs have won six league titles, have seen three singles' champions and eight doubles state champions, and she received the CHSCA girls' tennis Coach of the Year Award in 2006. Fitzgerald has been the Athletic Director at Westbrook for the past 28 years where she received the Distinguished Service Award in 2002, was the District 1 representative to the National High School Federation Softball Rules Committee from 2000 to 2004, and is currently a member of the executive board for the Connecticut Association of Athletic Directors and a consultant to the CIAC Officials Committee and a CIAC Softball Committee member. From 1980 to 1995 she was the assistant girls' basketball coach at Westbrook and helped the team to seven state titles and was named Assistant Coach of the Year in 1995. Pictured are Westbrook High School faculty members Allison Sumecki, Derek Hanssen, Heather Pierce, Lindsay Boehme, Pat Hanssen, Fitzgerald, Nicole Giangreco, and Caitlin Eichler. Photo and information courtesy of Robert Hale