Rickard now plays for local team Woodbridge Amazons in Suffolk, East Anglia, while the biology and physical education teacher is also a keen hockey player.

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Joe became a physical education teacher at a Catholic elementary school.

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Kristy Louridas is a high-school physical education teacher who reaches for Reese's Minis in resealable bags to satisfy her sweet tooth after hard workouts or dinner.

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The former physical education teacher and rugby player came up with the idea in the 1980s while studying for a Master's degree at Cambridge University, where he learnt to operate Mac computers.

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Michael Philip Jagger was the son of Joe Jagger, a physical education instructor at a teacher training college, and Eva, a hairdresser who had grown up in Australia.

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Mr Burton, a genial ex-teacher of physical education, remains upbeat about the north-east.

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