WABI (Channel 5) reported the University of Maine football and women’s soccer team hosted the annual Jeff Cole Bone Marrow Drive. Students were asked to come to the Memorial Union and have a swab inside the cheek taken as a sample to be put in the national bone marrow registry.
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The Bangor Daily News spoke with Steve Abbott, University of Maine’s athletic director, about the hiring of a new men’s ice hockey coach. Abbott said he hopes the search committee will name a new coach by the end of May.
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The Portland Press Herald spoke to University of Maine Director of Athletics Steve Abbott and several coaches about social media’s role in recruitment. The article focused on coaches’ reliance on Twitter and Facebook to make personal connections as well as the evolving NCAA regulations on texting. Amy Vachon, assistant coach for the UMaine women’s basketball […]
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WABI (Channel 5) covered a benefit concert performed by four University of Maine athletes at Moe’s restaurant in Bangor. The concert was held to raise money for a local effort to provide clean drinking water in Haiti.
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WLBZ (Channel 2), WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) reported on a collaboration between University of Maine researchers and Eastern Maine Medical Center clinicians to study human motion using 3-D technology. The new Human Performance Lab in the Cutler Health Center monitors human movement in an effort to train athletes correctly and prevent injuries.
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A number of media outlets, including The Associated Press, reported on UMaine’s April 16 announcement of the seven-member search committee for the head coach of the men’s ice hockey team.
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University of Maine Director of Athletics Steve Abbott has announced formation of a seven-member search committee to help identify the new head coach of the UMaine men’s ice hockey team. The search committee will begin work immediately and seek to provide the director of athletics with the names of recommended candidates within the next two […]
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WGME (Channel 13), WLBZ (Channel 2), and Indiana-based The Republic were among several news organizations to report on the University of Maine’s decision to name Robert Corkum interim head coach of the men’s ice hockey team. Corkum has been associate head coach of the team since 2008. The Bangor Daily News and the Portland Press […]
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Robert Corkum today was named interim head coach of University of Maine men’s ice hockey by UMaine Director of Athletics Steve Abbott. Corkum replaces Tim Whitehead, who was released from his contract April 9. A formal national search for a permanent men’s ice hockey coach will begin immediately with the formation of a search committee. […]
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The Washington Post, Fox News, ESPN and NHL.com were among several news organizations to report on the University of Maine’s decision to buy out the last year of men’s hockey coach Tim Whitehead’s contract. The Bangor Daily News also reported several former UMaine players are among potential candidates to replace Whitehead.
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