The Norwich University physical education program has produced some of Vermont’s and New England’s finest physical educators and coaches — Don Brown ’77 (head football coach, Univeristy of Massachusetts), Mike Norman ’86 (athletic director/head football coach, Rutland Supervisory Union), Jim Segar ’76, (physical educator, head boys hockey coach and head girls lacrosse coach, U-32), Mike Gonneville ’77 (physical educator, former head girls soccer coach, Northfield Elementary School), Mike Stone ’81 (physical educator, head football coach, Hartford HS), and Mike Yesalonia ’82(administrator, former head football coach, Norwich University), to name just a few. Distinguished Norwich University physical education alumni also have successful careers in the military, professional sports, pharmaceutical sales, administration and management, commercial airlines, exercise science, fitness, and recreation.
Sean Stockwell
- Profession: Pursuing Doctor of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine
- Degree, Class year: biology, ’07
- Norwich: “The professors did a first-class job preparing me for a professional education program and service profession.”
Rachel Gaidys
- Profession: Third-year resident, Montana Family Medicine Residency after earning MD at University of Vermont
- Degree, Class year: biology, ’01
- Norwich: “The values espoused by Norwich get ingrained in you. Those values make us better citizens and more desirable colleagues.”
