Hard-driving, mission-focused Zoey Cormican poised for Peace Corps service

Zoey Cormican of Gonic is headed off to serve the Peace Corps in Macedonia later this month (Courtesy photo)

GONIC - Two weeks from today Zoey Cormican of Gonic will be boarding a plane out of Washington headed to Macedonia for the adventure of a lifetime with the Peace Corps.
Cormican, a 2021 graduate of Spaulding High, where she was a four-sport athlete and Junior Air Force ROTC cadet, said on Friday she is excited to be part of a mission that unites the world while serving the greater good.
"I have always been driven by a commitment to public service," she said. "I see Peace Corps service as a profound way to represent the values of compassion, collaboration, and equity abroad."

Zoey Cormican, right, with members of the RWU Hawks rugby team. (Courtesy photo)

Cormican has found success wherever she applied herself, in sports as a high school wrestling, lacrosse, track and soccer player or in student government as a member of the student council at Spaulding.
The perennial team player, she also won the 2020 AFJROTC and AFA Cadet Leadership Award.
At Roger Williams University she added rugby excellence to her list of achievement this past year when she helped lead the Hawks to the Division II NCAA tournament.
With all the success she's had in and out of the classroom, she wants to do and learn more in her two-year stint in North Macedonia where she'll be teaching English as a Second Language.
"I'm looking forward to being fully immersed in and learn from a new culture; that is something I'm so excited for," she said.
But the core of her mission is to "serve the community."
"I want to make a difference for the children I teach, and learn to adapt to what they want and need," she said.
Cormican noted that after she arrives in Macedonia and before she begins teaching she'll spend three months of intense training in learning the customs, the language and the culture of the Macedonian people.
While she is looking forward to her adventure in learning and giving, she said she'll miss her family and friends back home in Rochester, where she remembers spending many happy summer days at the Hanson Pines and Gonic pools.
With a double major from Roger Williams University in legal studies and political science, she's looking forward to pursuing a legal degree and possible public service when she gets back to the states.
We're pretty sure she'd get Rochester's vote.