The Maine Business School (MBS) Corps at the University of Maine will host its tenth annual March Against Domestic Violence at 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 13 beginning outside of Cumberland Hall. The march will occur along Long Road and the Mall and conclude at Fogler Library. Speakers at the event will include Amanda Cost, executive […]
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The University of Maine will host the 2024 America East Softball Championship and the 2025 America East Baseball Championship. That last softball championship hosted at UMaine was in 2010. The 2024 competition follows the opening of the university’s new softball complex. UMaine previously hosted baseball championships in 2022 and 2018. Read the full story on […]
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The Bangor Daily News, News Center Maine and WFVX (Channel 7) reported on plans for the University of Maine to host the 2024 America East Softball Championship and the 2025 America East Baseball Championships.
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Nina Rodgers, who is believed to be the first Black woman to coach in NCAA Division I hockey, is joining the University of Maine Women’s Ice Hockey team as an assistant coach. Rodgers spent the past two seasons as an assistant coach at Dartmouth College. After graduating from Boston University in 2018, she spent three […]
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The University of Maine officially unveiled its new field hockey complex at a grand opening ceremony on Aug. 18. The 70,000-square-foot, $8.3 million complex features a synthetic turf playing surface, two new scoreboards, LED lights, brick dugouts and bleacher seating for up to 512 patrons, with chairback seats placed in the center of the stadium […]
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The Bangor Daily News, WABI (Channel 5), News Center Maine and BVM Sports reported on the grand opening of the new field hockey complex at the University of Maine. “The women you see here are a part of a great legacy at the University of Maine and they continue to burnish and advance that legacy […]
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Bella Swan, a University of Maine alumna and former Women’s Basketball forward, spoke with WABI (Channel 5 in Bangor) about her first children’s book titled “Do You Know Your Hair is Like Magic?” “I want people to feel good about themselves to know that all hair is good hair and there’s not one hair texture […]
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WABI-TV (Channel 5 in Bangor) reported that the University of Maine hosted its seventh annual golf fundraiser to benefit student athletes. WLOX-TV (Channel 13 in Biloxi, Mississippi), KWCH-TV (Channel 12 in Wichita, Kansas) and WBRC-TV (Channel 6 in Birmingham, Alabama) shared the WABI report.
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The Bangor Daily News reported that Jason Grunkemeyer, a former Miami University (Ohio) basketball captain and assistant coach, has been named UMaine’s deputy athletic director. He will start on Aug. 8.
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CTV interviewed Norm O’Reilly, dean of the University of Maine Graduate School of Business, about Nike ending its sponsorship from Hockey Canada over allegations of sexual harassment involving the latter. “Sponsorship is really an important part of revenue for Canadian national sport organizations,” he said, “they really have to change, but they’ve got the reach. […]
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