Faculty/Staff Bio

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Winnie Adrien

BS, Ithaca College

Science

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Work Phone: 860-945-7828

Year Appointed: 2010

Winnie attended Blair Academy for four years and, during her time there, served as a dorm prefect, earned 11 varsity letters, captained the varsity soccer and basketball teams and won the female graduate athletics award and the Headmaster’s Prize at graduation. She then began her college career at The College of Wooster, where she played varsity soccer and basketball and earned All-Ohio and All-Region honors. One year into college, she transferred to Ithaca College, where she majored in exercise sciences with a medical sciences emphasis. While at Ithaca, she played three years of varsity soccer, and served as an investigative journalist for 360 Degrees magazine and as a member of the school’s Pre-Medical Society, Chemistry Club, the Collegiate Science & Technology Entry Program and African-Latino Society. During her junior-year soccer season, she was voted an Academic All-American. Beyond school, she has volunteered at St. Charles Hospital and Oak Hill Manor Nursing Home; she also worked as a rehabilitation aide at St. Charles, served as a coach and counselor at Julie Foudy Sports Leadership Academy, interned at Brookhaven National Lab and taught as a kindergarten aide at South Hill Elementary. At Taft, she teaches biology and chemistry, coaches varsity girls’ soccer, boys’ thirds basketball and JV softball, lives in the Arts Apartment and works in ISP.

 
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