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Tina Cormier enters her eighth season with the Providence College field hockey program in 2009. She spent her first six seasons on the sidelines as an assistant coach, and in 2008 she was promoted to associate head coach. Cormier has assisted Head Coach Diane Madl in a rebuilding process that has placed Providence in the national rankings during each of the last three seasons, and has helped the program qualify for three-consecutive BIG EAST Championship Tournaments (2006, 2007, 2008), including two appearances in the championship game (2006, 2007). Cormier came to Providence with coaching experience at the collegiate, high school and youth levels. A native of Ste-Marie de Kent, New Brunswick (Canada), Cormier served as a part-time assistant field hockey coach at New Brunswick. Cormier also served as the assistant field hockey and assistant ice hockey coach at Sussex Regional High School. Additionally, she coached a 12-14 year old girls' field hockey team in Germany, and has been involved with numerous Provincial Field Hockey teams in New Brunswick. Cormier, a 2001 graduate of the University of New Brunswick, has earned numerous accolades for her prowess on the field hockey field. In 2001, Cormier was honored as the University of New Brunswick's Female Athlete of the Year. In 2000, she earned the Liz Hoffman Player of the Year Award (MVP) as part of the Canadian Inter-University Athletic Union (C.I.A.U.). Cormier was selected as the Dr. Garnett Copeland Medal Winner as the top all-around athlete at UNB in 1999 for her performance in field hockey and ice hockey. She was a five-time C.I.A.U. First-Team All-Canadian selection and five-time A.U.A.A. Most Valuable Player. In 1996, Cormier was recognized as a C.I.A.U., A.U.A.A. and UNB Rookie of the Year. She also was a member of the Canadian National Squad. Cormier earned her Level II USA Field Hockey Coaching Accreditation in 2008, which is the second-highest accreditation available in the U.S. system. With that accreditation, Cormier is able to work with High Performance & Developmental programs in the United States. Cormier is the Co-Director of Circle to Circle Field Hockey Camps, LLC., and has been involved with Futures over the last five years, and has served as a head coach since in the program since 2004. Cormier also has served as the Regional Coaching Director for Futures (Region 3), and was a head coach of a U-16 Team at the 2005 and 2006 National Futures Championship in Virginia Beach, Va. Cormier received a bachelor's degree in education and kinesiology from the University of New Brunswick, and has worked as a physical education teacher in grade levels ranging from kindergarten to eighth grade. |
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