Liz Wood named America East Scholar-Athlete of the Year, media report
The Bangor Daily News and WABI (Channel 7) also reported that University of Maine women’s basketball student-athlete Liz Wood of Catlett, Virginia, has been named the America East’s 2014–15 Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
Wood, the first Black Bear to receive the honor, was selected from a group of eight student-athletes in female sports. Each year following the fall, winter and spring seasons, a committee of athletic administrators and NCAA faculty athletics representatives elects a male and female scholar-athlete in each of the league’s 18 championship sports.