Amanda Cuiffo is in her sixth year as an administrator and coachin the Norwich University athletic department. She was elevated in2010 to Associate Director of Athletics after serving for fiveyears as an assistant athletic director and the senior womanadministrator. Cuiffo also serves as head coach of NU’swomen's volleyball program.
In her role as Associate Director of Athletics, Cuiffooversees the following sport programs: women’s soccer,women’s lacrosse, men’s and women’s crosscountry, men’s and women’s swimming and diving,women’s rugby, softball and women’s basketball. Cuiffois also the assistant director of compliance, she monitors contestscheduling, she oversees event management and she is responsiblefor aspects of student-athlete affairs to include supervision ofNorwich’s Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) andcoordination of Norwich’s CHAMPS/Life Skills Program.
Prior to arriving at Norwich, Cuiffo served as the head women'stennis coach at Brandeis University and the assistant volleyballcoach at Bentley College. Cuiffo also assisted the volleyball teamat Smith College as well as the tennis and squash teams at AmherstCollege, while completing her graduate work at Smith.
Cuiffo graduated magna cum laude from Colby College in2002. While at Colby, Cuiffo captained the volleyball teamduring both her junior and senior years and was a four-time teamMVP. She was named All-New England “Rookie of the Year”in 1998, and was twice selected to the All-NESCAC secondteam. Cuiffo also competed for two years on Colby’stennis team, captaining the squad during her senior year. Cuiffo went on to graduate magna cum laude from Smith College,earning a M.S. in Exercise and Sport Studies.
