WGME showed footage of the University of Maine football team’s candlelight remembrance at Morse Field to mark the one-year anniversary of the death of Darius Minor, a first-year football player who collapsed last July during a workout.
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WABI (Channel 5) interviewed several University of Maine student-athletes who teamed with New Balance for a day of service with youth in Madison. Asked what she learned from being in a small Maine town, Beate Naglestad, a soccer player from Oppegård, Norway, said, “The simple things that matter in life…the importance of family here…and the […]
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Running for Team USA, James Olivier placed sixth in 1:54.21 in the 800m at the Pan American U20 Championships on July 21 in San José, Costa Rica. To advance to the final, the UMaine rising sophomore finished third in 1:52.15 during his semifinal heat Friday night. Olivier had an amazing first year as a Black […]
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The Bangor Daily News interviewed University of Maine assistant men’s basketball coach Edniesha Curry about her experience guest coaching the San Antonio Spurs’ Sacramento and Las Vegas summer league teams. “It was phenomenal to see such high-level athletes so selfless in everything they did throughout the day,” said Curry, a former WNBA player. “Everything was […]
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WABI (Channel 5) talked with University of Maine women’s basketball coach Amy Vachon and athletic director Ken Ralph about the new basketball floor in Memorial Gymnasium, aka “The Pit.” The refinished floor resembles the floor at Cross Insurance Center, where the men’s and women’s hoop teams play most of their home games. Vachon said the […]
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Albert Hackett of Orono, a University of Maine alumnus and longtime admissions director, passed away July 13. He was 88. Hackett was a UMaine student-athlete who was inducted into the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame and University of Maine Sports Hall of Fame. He began his career at UMaine in 1966, and was named director […]
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New University of Maine building and road signage on campus is now bilingual — English and Penobscot. Signs for Memorial Gym and New Balance Student Recreation Center note the names in Penobscot — αttali-milahəyαwələtimək — translated as “place where you play a variety of games.” At Fogler Library, awihkhikaní-wikəwαm means “book house”; at Wells Conference […]
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While University of Maine students receive free tickets to home football contests, other Black Bear fans can score single-game tickets starting at 10 a.m. Monday, July 8. Season memberships to watch the defending Colonial Athletic Association champions also are available and start at $65. Season memberships entitle holders to a free tailgate parking pass. The […]
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WVII (channel 7) and News Center Maine reported that University of Maine rising sophomore James Olivier earned the right to compete in the 800m for Team USA at the 2019 Pan American U20 Championships by winning the race at the USA Track & Field U20 Outdoor Championships. “Hopefully I make it through the prelim, right […]
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The San Antonio Express-News reported that University of Maine men’s assistant basketball coach Edniesha Curry is one of two women who will be a guest coach on Blake Ahearn’s staff next week in the 2019 Salt Lake City Summer League. Curry is the lone female assistant coach in Division I men’s basketball. The Spurs made […]
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