The Bangor Daily News, Portland Press Herald, WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) reported on the University of Maine’s football Pro Day. Professional football scouts from the NFL and CFL (Canadian Football League) put nine former Black Bear players through a variety of drills to see if they are potential candidates to be drafted […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported University of Maine student Samantha Frank won her third consecutive individual title last weekend at the 20th National Collegiate Wrestling Association championships in Allen, Texas. She pinned each of her opponents to win the women’s 101-pound division while being named the meet’s outstanding wrestler, according to the article. Frank is […]
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FOX 22 did a two-part feature on the Screamin’ Black Bears Pep Band. The band, directed by Christopher White, seeks to elevate men’s ice hockey and men’s and women’s basketball games into must-attend events. White says the pep band is part of the fabric of athletic contests and senior Jay Baines, a snare drummer, says […]
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Women’s basketball fans are invited to ride the University of Maine fan bus to New York for the America East title contest at 4:30 p.m. Friday, March 10 between the Black Bears and the Albany Great Danes. The bus will depart Memorial Gym at 10 a.m. Thursday, March 9. Stops along the route can be […]
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The University of Maine and eight of its rivals will face off in Portland in early March, when the America East Conference Women’s Basketball Tournament returns to Maine for the first time in 20 years, Mainebiz reported. Games will take place at the Cross Insurance Arena. The tournament, which also will be held in Portland […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on the University of Maine women’s basketball team’s annual Play4Kay breast cancer awareness game Feb. 12. The team wore pink jerseys in the game against Stony Brook, which they won 78–71. Play 4Kay is named after Kay Yow, a longtime North Carolina State women’s coach who died of breast cancer in […]
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Fans of the University of the Maine have a lot to cheer about. Former Black Bear football star Trevor Bates is a practice player for the New England Patriots, who square off with Atlanta on Sunday, Feb. 5 in Super Bowl LI. If the Patriots win, Bates will earn a Super Bowl ring. The December […]
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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 […]
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Sigi Koizar, Jesse Orach and Sydney Veljacic were named the 2017 “M” Club Dean Smith Award recipients Monday, Jan. 30, at the 28th annual Scholar-Athlete Recognition ceremony. The award is named for Dean Smith, an electrical engineering major, captain of the 1989–90 UMaine men’s basketball team and winner of the 1990 NCAA Walter Byers Award as the nation’s […]
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The Associated Press, Bangor Daily News, WVII (Channel 7) and The Ellsworth American reported Director of Athletics Karlton Creech has signed a four-year contract to stay at the University of Maine, effective Feb. 10. Creech has directed the UMaine Department of Athletics since 2014. “Karlton’s outstanding leadership of UMaine Athletics has benefited the university, the […]
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