Carolan Norris Named Associate Dean of Student Support Services
1/12/2021 9:05:00 AM | General
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Brown University Vice President for Campus Life Eric Estes has announced that Carolan Norris, Senior Associate Athletics Director for Student-Athlete Services and Senior Woman Administrator, will join Student Support Services as an associate dean starting on February 1, 2021.
In Norris' new role, she brings many years of expertise and experience supporting the academic and personal needs and concerns of students. Student Support Services deans are a key resource for the developmental mentoring and advising of students outside of the classroom. She also will take a lead role in working with students who live off campus and play an important role in continuing to ensure that the University's efforts around health and wellness meaningfully integrate physical health and wellbeing. These new and enhanced collaborations will be timely with the opening of the new health center and wellness themed residence hall in close proximity to existing fitness and recreation facilities like the Nelson Fitness Center.
For more than 38 years, Norris has been a key member of the Athletics Department serving most recently as a member of the senior leadership team as Senior Associate Athletics Director for Student-Athlete Services and Senior Woman Administrator. Her primary responsibilities included oversight of support for student-athletes for academic and non-academic concerns and issues. Other duties included mentoring of coaches and administrative staff, and assisting in the day-to-day operations of the department.
Norris joined the Brown athletic department in 1983 as an assistant field hockey coach and continued in that role for 10 years before assuming head lacrosse coaching duties on a full-time basis. After completing a successful six years with lacrosse, in which she boasted five winning seasons, she took over the field hockey program in the fall of 1998, coaching her teams to five winning seasons and the 1999 Ivy League Championship. Her nine-year record as the head coach of the field hockey team was 125-107.
Norris' 1999 field hockey squad shattered the school season records for goals, most wins, individual goals, individual assists, and individual points. Her squad earned national acclaim when it broke into the college field hockey rankings for the first time since the early 1990's, appearing as high as #14, and the Bears clinched their first Ivy crown since 1991. At the end of the season, she was rewarded when her peers voted her the Northeast Field Hockey Coaches Association Northeast Region Coach of the Year.
A native of Wakefield, RI, Norris graduated from South Kingstown High School, where she was an All-State field hockey and volleyball player. She went on to receive her B.S. from the University of Connecticut in 1983, where she was a four-year letter winner in field hockey, ice hockey, and lacrosse. She played on the 1981 Husky field hockey team that won an NCAA National Championship and captained the 1982 squad that was the NCAA Tournament Runner-up. Norris was a 2017 Connecticut Field Hockey Hall of Fame and a 2011 New Agenda: Northeast Women's Hall of Fame inductee.
In Norris' new role, she brings many years of expertise and experience supporting the academic and personal needs and concerns of students. Student Support Services deans are a key resource for the developmental mentoring and advising of students outside of the classroom. She also will take a lead role in working with students who live off campus and play an important role in continuing to ensure that the University's efforts around health and wellness meaningfully integrate physical health and wellbeing. These new and enhanced collaborations will be timely with the opening of the new health center and wellness themed residence hall in close proximity to existing fitness and recreation facilities like the Nelson Fitness Center.
For more than 38 years, Norris has been a key member of the Athletics Department serving most recently as a member of the senior leadership team as Senior Associate Athletics Director for Student-Athlete Services and Senior Woman Administrator. Her primary responsibilities included oversight of support for student-athletes for academic and non-academic concerns and issues. Other duties included mentoring of coaches and administrative staff, and assisting in the day-to-day operations of the department.
Norris joined the Brown athletic department in 1983 as an assistant field hockey coach and continued in that role for 10 years before assuming head lacrosse coaching duties on a full-time basis. After completing a successful six years with lacrosse, in which she boasted five winning seasons, she took over the field hockey program in the fall of 1998, coaching her teams to five winning seasons and the 1999 Ivy League Championship. Her nine-year record as the head coach of the field hockey team was 125-107.
Norris' 1999 field hockey squad shattered the school season records for goals, most wins, individual goals, individual assists, and individual points. Her squad earned national acclaim when it broke into the college field hockey rankings for the first time since the early 1990's, appearing as high as #14, and the Bears clinched their first Ivy crown since 1991. At the end of the season, she was rewarded when her peers voted her the Northeast Field Hockey Coaches Association Northeast Region Coach of the Year.
A native of Wakefield, RI, Norris graduated from South Kingstown High School, where she was an All-State field hockey and volleyball player. She went on to receive her B.S. from the University of Connecticut in 1983, where she was a four-year letter winner in field hockey, ice hockey, and lacrosse. She played on the 1981 Husky field hockey team that won an NCAA National Championship and captained the 1982 squad that was the NCAA Tournament Runner-up. Norris was a 2017 Connecticut Field Hockey Hall of Fame and a 2011 New Agenda: Northeast Women's Hall of Fame inductee.
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