Laura Cooper
M.A., Spanish Language and Literature, Middlebury College
B.A., English and Modern Languages, William Smith College

Since 1979 Laura Cooper has spent summers living and working at the Wolfeboro Camp School, a summer boarding school just down the road from Brewster Academy. In 1999, she brought her teaching talent to Brewster where she teaches Spanish. This is her sixth year as a team leader, currently of the freshman Team Cooper.

Since arriving at Brewster Ms. Cooper has been a community life parent in Fox, Haines, and the Estabrook dorms. She is the assistant coach for the girls' varsity soccer team (helping that team win two New England titles) and is the assistant coach for the girls' varsity lacrosse team. She also has coached hockey and swimming through school and town programs. In college, Ms. Cooper was a varsity athlete and captain of her soccer and swim teams.

During college, she lived and studied in Madrid, Spain, for two separate years, the first as an undergraduate through St. Lawrence University and the second as a graduate student through Middlebury College.

Prior to Brewster, Ms. Cooper taught Spanish and coached soccer at Berwick Academy, and before that she taught Spanish at Kimball Union Academy. At Kimball Union, she also was a department head, dormitory head, head of the freshman team, and a soccer coach. She also has taught at St. Lawrence University and the Berkshire School. While at the Wolfeboro Camp School, she has served as counselor, head of the girls' division, and is currently a teacher and academic assistant.

Ms. Cooper lives off campus with her family. Her husband, Ed, has taught math for more than 20 years in independent schools and is the assistant head of the Wolfeboro Camp School. They have three children, all of whom graduated from Brewster: Jenny '03, Dan '05, and Kim '07.

Ms. Cooper has been a member of community theater for many years and also sings with the local Clearlakes Chorale. Her athletic endeavors include playing ice hockey for the Wolfeboro She-Wolves, masters swimming with the Great Bay Masters Club, and skiing cross-country citizen races. She is an amateur gardener and enjoys anything that has to do with the outdoors.