This is Faler’s second year at WHHS as the Director of Wrestling, but his first year as a health teacher. As a wrestling coach, he has trained multiple state champions and all-american wrestlers. Before moving to Cincinnati, Faler was a trial attorney in Tennessee and also owned a coffee shop. When not teaching or coaching, Faler loves to watch the Bengals, Reds, UC Bearcats and FC Cincinnati.

Scharfenberger is a WHHS alum. As a member of the class of 1998, she graduated before the turn of the century.

Collopy graduated from WHHS in 2022 and went on to play basketball for the University of Pikeville. She also possesses the slightly disturbing skills of being able to dislocate all of her fingers and touch her thumb to her wrist. In addition, Collopy wears hearing aids and has never predicted a sports game outcome wrong. Collopy stays mysterious by publishing several papers under a pen name. What is her pen name, you may ask? That’s something you’ll have to figure out on your own. 

Kroger has traveled to 20 National Parks and 17 different countries, and the best hike he has been on is The Iceberg Lake Trail in Glacier National Park, where he saw five bears and swam in glacial waters. His favorite cookbook author and chef is Kenji López-Alt, and he believes the most underrated musician of all time is Swamp Dogg. He also had the opportunity to live in an off-grid cabin and learn about organic gardening and homesteading through his job at Fruitdale Farm in Bainbridge, Ohio.

Luken is originally from Canada and got married this past summer in Lake Como. She got to honeymoon in Egypt, where she and her husband were able to climb inside Khufu’s pyramid and exit without falling into a booby trap. 

Mitchell has lots of experience in the arts; he performed Irish dance for 10 years and plays the guitar, viola, and Irish bouzouki (a type of mandolin). Mitchell is originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Guye taught English to French to pre-school and elementary school students for a year in Deauville, France. She grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, and has visited Morocco twice. She loves to cross-stitch in her free time and has read 30 books so far this year. 

Munsie has seen the musical Wicked live over 50 times in four different countries. She has taught musical theatre in English to German students in Munich and worked seven summer sessions with the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) in Berlin, London, Seoul, Taipei, and Tokyo. She is also very close with fellow new teachers Bridgette Guye and Nick Kroger, and works part-time at Anthropologie with Nicole Pennekamp. 

Friesen enjoys crafting, especially making Christmas stockings/wreaths, sewing Halloween costumes and quilting. She has taught in four states (Ohio, North Carolina, Indiana, and Minnesota), has been attacked by killer bees and hitchhiked in Mexico. She was also present on a cow farm when a calf was being born, which led to a cow being named after her.

Caproni enjoys making a buck or two on the side and has worked more than 15 jobs including head chef, Blockbuster manager, Kroger bagger/cashier/customer service, tennis instructor, content creator, public speaker, bank teller, farm hand, catering, sound tech for live bands, disaster relief, esports coach and more.