UMaine to launch national search for next athletics director, BDN reports

The Bangor Daily News reported a national search for a University of Maine athletics director will begin in May. UMaine President Susan J. Hunter has appointed Robert Dana, UMaine vice president for student life and dean of students, chair of the search committee for the new permanent head of the state’s only Division I program. Dana said he is in the process of putting together a 12-member search committee along with Chris Lindstrom, the vice president of campus human resources at UMaine. Dana and Lindstrom will be the 13th and 14th members of the committee, according to the BDN. “We want a cutting-edge, world-class athletic director who gets the idea that athletics are a very important part of the University of Maine and of this community and is a really big thing for the state,” Dana said. “I want them to understand the history of success we’ve had at UMaine and build upon that.”