BDN announces ‘M’ Club Dean Smith Award winners
The Bangor Daily News reported on the three 2017 “M” Club Dean Smith Award winners announced during the University of Maine Scholar-Athlete Recognition Ceremony. This year’s winners are Jesse Orach, a cross country and track athlete from Gorham; Sigi Koizar, a women’s basketball player from Vienna, Austria; and Sydney Veljacic, a member of the field hockey team from Coquitlam, British Columbia. The award is presented annually to the top male and female student-athletes with outstanding academic and athletic achievement along with citizenship and community service. Koizar and Orach each won the award for the second straight year.