Ocoee High names Todd Verkennes as next softball coach

The long time club softball coach takes over a Knights program that went 11-13 last season.

By Sam Albuquerque
| 12:00 p.m. September 9, 2024

Sports
High Schools

Ocoee High has hired Todd Verkennes as the school’s next softball coach.

Verkennes has been a coach in the club ranks since 2007. Most recently, he owned and coached his own club team, Exclusives Academy, which coincidently use the Ocoee High softball facilities for training.

According to the EA website, Verkennes’ approach to building his club program is to focus on helping create tomorrow's future leaders with a philosophy called the “Triangle of Success.” Which is made up of three equal parts, the coaches, players and parents, with no one being more important than the other, but all three being fully bought into goals of the athlete.

The Knights finished the 2024 season with an 11-13 record and lost in the semifinals of the Class 7A, District 3 tournament to Lake Brantley High.

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Sam Albuquerque

A native of João Pessoa, Brazil, Sam Albuquerque moved in 1997 to Central Florida as a kid. After earning a communications degree in 2016 from the University of Central Florida, he started his career covering sports as a producer for a local radio station, ESPN 580 Orlando. He went on to earn a master’s degree in editorial journalism from Northwestern University, before moving to South Carolina to cover local sports for the USA Today Network’s Spartanburg Herald-Journal. When he’s not working, you can find him spending time with his lovely wife, Sarah, newborn son, Noah, and dog named Skulí.