David Scarisbrick

Assistant Coach

Boys Varsity Swimming

David Scarisbrick joined Lake Forest Academy as an English teacher in 2023, and is teaching English 9 and AP Language and Composition this year. A native of Charlotte, N.C., David has spent the last six years teaching after having earned his master’s degree in English literature from Appalachian State University, and has spent time studying literature at St. Edmund’s Hall, a college of Oxford, and Kansai Gaidai University in Japan. His classes are built upon his love of stories and people, and he hopes to inspire a passion for thinking critically and caring sincerely about one another. David credits his own teachers for inspiring his lifelong love of learning, and he attempts daily to live by the words of Dickens: “I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.”