Keith Wert brings several years of experience to the Vikings court.
Eastern Regional High School’s Board of Education approved Keith Wert as the head girls basketball coach for the 2018–19 season. He replaces Joseph Murphy, who resigned this past March.
Coach Wert’s previous experience includes working as assistant basketball coach at Bishop Eustace for eight years, working as Head boys basketball coach at Sterling for one years and working as head boys and head girls basketball coach at Woodbury for nine years.
During his year at Sterling High School, Coach Wert converted the Varsity team from finishing second-to-last place in the Colonial Conference, to a second place finish with a 16–9 record. He also led the Woodbury boys’ varsity team to the Colonial Conference Championship (20–6) in 1993, during his five-year period with the boys program. Coach Wert converted to the Woodbury girls program soon after, and was able to save a program in danger of being eliminated. He also delivered the team’s first winning season, as well as a state tournament qualification.
Coach Wert resigned from coaching high school basketball in order to coach his twin daughters, Shawna and Dana, on the Washington Township Travel Team and became the Head Coach of their Tristate Tar Heels AAU team. While working with this program, his teams finished every season with more than 25 wins, qualifying yearly for the National AAU Tournament, and reaching the semi-final or final round of every tournament entered.
Keith Wert is a retired history and social studies educator after 33 years of service at both Bishop Eustace and Woodbury High School. Although he enjoyed being in the classroom, his true passion was working with students as a coach on the basketball court. Eastern Regional High School is extremely excited about the addition of Mr. Wert to our Girls Basketball program.
