Ms. Wendy Bordeau joined the Vermont Academy community in 2020 as the Director of College Counseling and Head Crew Coach before becoming Athletic Director. Prior to Vermont Academy, Ms. Bordeau was the deputy Title IX Coordinator at Dartmouth. She served two stints as head coach and in between served as Dartmouth’s senior associate athletics director. She rebuilt Dartmouth’s crew to national relevance in just two years, achieving the highest 1V finish at the NCAA Championship in program history. She recruited and subsequently developed several All-Americans, Academic All-Americans, and National and Olympic Team competitors. In 2011 she was named the Collegiate Rowing Association New England Coach of the Year.
Wendy is a 1998 magna cum laude graduate of Princeton with a B.A. in ecology and evolutionary biology. She won the Leslie K. Johnson Memorial Award for outstanding senior thesis work in 1998. While at Princeton she captained the 1998 Princeton crew. She won a gold medal at the Eastern Sprints in 1995 as a member of the first novice eight and struck gold again at the Eastern Sprints in 1997 as a member of the first varsity eight. Ms. Bordeau also competed in the first two NCAA championship regattas in 1997 and 1998.
After graduating from Princeton, Wendy became the assistant coach for Cornell University’s crew, where she also assisted in recruiting and program administration. In 2001 she was awarded Novice Coach of the Year by the Eastern Association of Women’s Rowing Colleges (EAWRC). Her crew was the undefeated EAWRC Sprints Champion that same year.
Wendy returned to Princeton to become the first assistant coach for women’s rowing. She recruited and developed all of the members of the undefeated 2006 NCAA Champion Crew. In 2002 she was again awarded Novice Coach of the Year by EAWRC. Her crew was the undefeated EAWRC Sprints Champion in 2002 and 2004. Wendy is living on campus in West Hill with her two daughters, Charlie and Hazel.
Mr. Russell Williams
Assistant Athletic Director / Equipment Manager
(802) 869-6253
Mr. Alexei Sotskov
Sport-on-Snow Director
(802) 869-6236
St Petersburg, Institute of Physical Culture and Sport