Senior
Associate Athletic Director for PE and Recreation
Goes By:
Roger
Years at
Dartmouth: 19
Yale BA
‘72, University of Wisconsin MS ‘86
Demment
came to Dartmouth in 1990 as our assistant men’s hockey coach, then served as
our head men’s hockey coach from 1991-1997.Since that time, he has served as Senior Associate Athletic
Director for Physical Education and Recreation.In this role, he manages and oversees Dartmouth’s physical education program
(90 classes per term), 34 club sports (1,250 student-athletes), 20 intramural
activities (5,000 participants), and the Fitness & Lifestyle Improvement
Program (FLIP), which offers 55 fitness classes annually to 3,300 students,
faculty/staff, and community members.
After
graduating from Yale, Demment spent seven years as a player-coach in the French
National Hockey League and was regional program director for French Ministry of
Youth and Sport.He returned to the US
to pursue graduate work in exercise physiology at the University ofWisconsin while working in a cardiac rehab
program and in newly created sports medicine center.He then moved to Southborough, MA to teach biology
and physiology and coach boys’ hockey at St. Mark’s School before heading north
to Hanover.Roger is married to
Christine, a psychologist, and has two children, Christa Demment Gonzalez (33)
and Eric (31).