A former All-Conference player and multi-sport athlete at Sewanee, Carly Grimm Normandeau begins her third season as an assistant coach with the women's lacrosse program in 2026.

The Tigers posted a record-setting campaign in 2025, recording an undefeated mark in the regular season (17-0), winning the SAA regular season and conference tournament titles, the first regular season league championship since 2015. Sewanee hosted first and second-round matches in the NCAA Championships, falling to Washington and Lee.
 
Marlin Price was voted SAA Offensive Player of the Year while head coach Michele Dombrowski and Normandeau were named Coaching Staff of the Year. Nine players received All-SAA recognition, including Price, Brooke Sigmon, Winnie Pajcic, Ella Townsend and Kennedy Harcourt on the First Team, Sally Herrington and Sally Whitehead on the Second Team and Claire Dillard and Alex Kelly for Honorable Mention.
 
Pajcic garnered First Team All-Region honors while Price and Sigmon were named to the Second Team and Pajcic earned Honorable Mention All-America accolades. Twenty-three players were named to the SAA Academic Honor Roll and six athletes received Academic All-District® recognition, as selected by the College Sports Communicators. Sigmon received Third Team Academic All-America® honors as well.

In her first season returning to her alma mater, the Tigers finished 12-7 overall and lost in the semifinals of the SAA Championships in 2024. Seven players earned All-Conference honors, with Sally Herrington and Winnie Pajcic First Team selections. Herrington garnered All-Region accolades while 23 players were named to the SAA Academic Honor Roll and four athletes received Academic All-District® recognition, as selected by the College Sports Communicators.

The South Salem, N.Y., native was a member of the first recruiting class for the Tigers in 2007 and played from 2008-11 for the program. Her career culminated with the team winning the inaugural SCAC (Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference) championship in 2011. She earned First Team All-Conference honors as a senior for the Tigers.
 
Normandeau served four years as head coach at Franklin High School in Franklin, Tenn., before joining the staff at Sewanee, winning state championships with the Admirals in 2021 and 2022. Her duties at FHS included practice planning, film breakdown and scheduling while also creating and implementing a full-year schedule for summer and fall workouts as well as winter strength and conditioning.

She was named the 2022 USA Lacrosse Tennessee Coach of the Year and 2021 Tennessean Midstate Coach of the Year. She represented the Central South Region on the Tennessee Girls Lacrosse Association Board for two years and began her tenure at Franklin as an assistant coach for one season before taking over the head coaching duties.
 
Normandeau also worked five years with No-Excuse Lacrosse as a coach for Tennessee’s Premier lacrosse travel teams for girls and boys, coaching summer and fall tournaments and assisting with the recruiting process for players within the program.
 
She co-founded Nashville Field Hockey in 2017, expanding the program from one-to-four teams, one youth travel club and one adult travel team in five years. Franklin High onboarded as a new partner in 2022.
 
Normandeau previously worked one year as an assistant lacrosse coach at Pope John Paul II Preparatory School in Hendersonville, Tenn., helping the Knights advance to the semifinals in the state tournament.
 
After college she served one year as a lacrosse coach and local development officer with the English Lacrosse Association in North Yorkshire, England, coaching five teams at Harrogate Ladies College (ages 12-19) along with a touring team from the United States (ages 15-18), the U15 and U18 teams for Yorkshire County and two women’s teams at Leeds University.
 
Normandeau earned her bachelor’s in Art and Art History from the University of the South in 2011. A two-sport athlete at Sewanee, she was a key member of the SCAC championship field hockey team that went to the national tournament in 2008 while playing from 2007-10.

Updated 1/29/2026