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A three-sport standout competing in cross country running, Nordic skiing and track, Lawton Redman went on to represent the United States in the winter Olympics in the biathlon.
The 1998 Male Athlete of the Year, Redman earned All America honors in cross country and was a three-time conference champion, qualified for the NCAAs in Nordic skiing and was a standout at 5,000 and 10,000 meters in track and field.
The captain of the cross country team in 1996 and 1997, he was Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association champion in 1995, 1996 and 1997 and was the New York State Collegiate Track Association cross country champion and Runner of the Year in 1997. He was a consistent top-15 finisher in EISA Nordic skiing competition with a number of top ten finishes in freestyle races, qualifying for the 1997 NCAAs at Stowe.
Following graduation, he joined the US Army and represented the Army in the 2002 Winter Olympics as a member of the Army’s World Class Athlete Program and the US National Biathlon Team. He won three consecutive US Biathlon National Championship races, the 10km sprint and 12.5km pursuit in 2001 and the 10km sprint in 2002 leading up to his Olympic competition.
He attended the US Army Flight School in 2008 and was trained as a Blackhawk helicopter pilot and at the time of his induction is a MEDEVAC pilot for the Vermont Army National Guard. He has deployed to Iraq twice, once as an infantryman and the second time as a MEDEVAC pilot. He was accepted into the Interservice Physician Assistant Program in the summer of 2013. Lawton and his wife, Amy ’04. are the parents of a daughter, Lillian.
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