University of Maine football coach Jack Cosgrove will host “Coach Cos’s Football 101 For Women” from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 2 in the Alfond Lounge inside Alfond Arena. The interactive workshop is designed to teach women basic football such as offensive and defensive strategies as well as what to look for […]
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The America East Conference has announced that the University of Maine had 134 of its winter and spring student-athletes named to the 2011-12 America East Honor Roll. Students had to earn grade-point averages of 3.0 or higher to receive the recognition. Out of those 134 student-athletes, 74 were named to the America East Commissioner’s Honor […]
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University of Maine women’s cross country and track and field standout Corey Conner has been named to the Capital One/CoSIDA Women’s Cross Country and Track Academic All-American second team. A senior nursing major from Townsend, Mass., Conner earned second team All-American honors this year after placing 16th in the 5,000-meter race at the 2012 NCAA […]
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UMaine’s 1993 NCAA hockey championship game was named Maine’s top sports moment, according to an ESPN The Magazine story posted on the ESPN website. The Black Bears beat Lake Superior State 5-4 that year to capture the national title. Contact: Jessica Bloch, (207) 581-3777
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The Athletic Business magazine has posted on its website a Bangor Daily News article about University of Maine men’s hockey players participating in a research project with exercise science students to determine the cardiovascular effects and energy expenditure of an underwater treadmill being used for rehabilitating injured athletes. The research established for the first time […]
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University of Maine women’s track and field standout Corey Conner has been named a United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches’ Association second team All-American. Conner, a senior nursing major from Townsend, Mass., placed 16th in the 5,000 meters at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships last weekend to earn the distinction. […]
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Dustin Penner, a former University of Maine men’s ice hockey player, won the 2012 Stanley Cup on Tuesday night with the Los Angeles Kings. The Kings defeated the New Jersey Devils 6-1. He joins former Black Bear Jimmy Howard, who previously won the Stanley Cup with the Detroit Red Wings during the 2008 season, as […]
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Measures of classroom performance, eligibility, and retention draw a picture of the academic culture in each NCAA sport.
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The Bangor Daily News health website highlighted a UMaine news release about researchers who have been comparing athletes’ performance on an underwater treadmill versus a traditional treadmill. The group, which included graduate students Philip Watson and Travis Bouchard and undergraduate Cassandra Mendonca, who received degrees in May 2012, along with professor Robert Lehnhard, had found […]
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University of Maine baseball player Stephen Perakslis has been selected in the 21st round, 644th overall, of the 2012 MLB Entry Draft, by the Chicago Cubs. He becomes the second Black Bear drafted in as many days, joining Jeffrey Gibbs who was selected Tuesday in the ninth round, 303rd overall, by the Arizona Diamondbacks. Perakslis, […]
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