Tae Norwood

Assistant Coach, Men's Basketball
E-mail: knorwood@nmu.edu
Telephone: 906-227-2526

Tae Norwood begins his first season as the assistant men’s basketball coach at Northern Michigan University today. Norwood brings 10 years of assistant coaching experience to the Wildcat program. He will be the recruiting coordinator and work on player development, focusing on guards.

Norwood spent 2011-12 as the assistant coach/recruiting coordinator at Grambling (La.) State University.

From 2009-11, Norwood was the assistant coach at Florida Gulf Coast University (Fort Myers, Fla.). He was the assistant coach at Georgia Southern University (Statesboro, Ga.) in 2008-09 and the assistant at Florida Southern University (Lakeland, Fla.) in 2007-08.

While at Florida Southern, he helped guide the Moccasins to a 2008 regular season Sunshine State Conference (SSC) title, a conference tournament title and a berth into the NCAA Division II Tournament as the top seed. Four different players earned all-conference honors, including Rob Eldridge, a first team All-Conference performer, and Rion Rayfield, the SSC’s freshman of the year. Brandon Jenkins was tabbed to the All-Freshmen team and Braxton Williams was the SSC Tournament Most Valuable Player.

The Brooklyn, N.Y. native spent two years at Bloomsburg (Pa.) University  where he served as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the Huskies, as well as interim head coach in the spring of 2006.

Norwood played his college basketball at Green Mountain College (Poultney, Vt.) where he was a four-year letterman from 1996-2000. He led the Eagles to a conference record of 53-4, three Mayflower Conference championships and three NAIA Tournaments. Norwood was a two-time all-conference selection and left as Green Mountain’s career leader in assists and steals.

Norwood graduated from Green Mountain in 2000 with a degree in recreation and leisure services, and earned his master’s degree in health and kinesiology from Georgia Southern in 2004. While completing his education at Georgia Southern, he got his first collegiate coaching experience as an administrative assistant. He then spent the 2004-05 season as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Milligan College (Johnson City, Tenn.).

In addition to his coaching resume, Norwood has extensive experience in other areas of college athletics, including game and event management and fundraising. He also served as the intramural director at Milligan College and as assistant director for game management at Bloomsburg. Norwood has been the camp director or coordinator at several summer camps, and served as a coach at the Seattle Storm and Supersonics Camp from 1999-2001.

Off the court, Norwood has been active in the Boys and Girls Clubs, part of the “Big Brother” mentorship program, and is a member of the National Association of Basketball Coaches and the Black Coaches Association.