Report Has Blodgett Going to Rhode Island

The Portland Press Herald reported Monday Cindy Blodgett, the former UMaine basketball star player who coached the Black Bears for four years, has been hired as an assistant coach at the University of Rhode Island. Joanne P. McCallie, a Brunswick native who coached Blodgett at UMaine and was in Maine this weekend to visit family and speak at a banquet, told the newspaper she had spoken recently with Blodgett and is confident Blodgett will get a fresh start at URI.

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