Scott Kaufman (Board Vice President)
Assistant Principal/Athletic Administrator, West Chester Lakota West High School
State Board of Directors, August 1, 2019 – July 31, 2021
(Class AAA Representative, Southwest District)
Scott is a graduate of Seven Hills High School in Cincinnati where he played soccer, basketball and baseball. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in education from Bradley University in 1990 and later a master’s degree in school administrationfrom Xavier University.
Scott is currently the assistant principal/athletic administrator at Lakota West High School, the school district in which he lives and from where his children graduated. Prior to that, he began his professional career at Princeton City Schools (1992-2011) as a teacher (1992-1996), junior high athletic administrator (1996-1998) and district athletic administrator (1998-2011). During this time, he coached football and basketball at Princeton and fast-pitch softball at Seven Hills. From 2011-2013, Kaufman served as the Athletic Administrator at Wyoming High School.
As a longtime member of the National (NIAAA) and Ohio (OIAAA) athletic administrators associations and the Southwest Ohio Athletic Directors Association (SWOADA), Scott was awarded the OIAAA Meritorious Service Award in 2008, the SWOADA Citation Award in 2011, the NIAAA Distinguished Service Award in 2012 and OIAAA/SWOADA Athletic Administrator of the Year Award in 2016.
Scott has also been very active within the OHSAA throughout his career. He has served as a sectional and regional tournament manager in six team sports and he has been a member of the OHSAA Blue Ribbon Committeefor bylaw review, the OHSAA Technology Committee, the Competitive Balance Committee and the Emerging Opportunities Committee. He was elected as the AAA representative to the OHSAA’s Southwest District Athletic Board in 2008 and was reelected in 2016. This is his first term on the OHSAA Board of Directors.
Scott has been married for 27 years to his wife Shelley, a cardiology nurse at Mercy Hospital in Fairfield. They have two children, Chelsey (23), a graduate of Kent State University, and Megan (20), who is studying nursing and playing volleyball at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. They have been residents of Liberty Township for 27 years.