The Bangor Daily News has a story about former UMaine track star Dereck Treadwell who won on Saturday the Newton’s Revenge bicycle race up the Mount Washington Auto Road in New Hampshire. Treadwell graduated from UMaine in 1998, gaining All-America status in 1996 when he finished 11th in the 1,500 meters at the NCAA championships. […]
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New UMaine women’s basketball coach Richard Barron was in a Bangor Daily News story about his efforts to recruit players for the 2011-12 season. Barron said his goal is to start building relationships with potential Black Bears in order to string together several good classes in a row and make UMaine an America East contender […]
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The Lewiston Sun Journal featured incoming UMaine first-year student-athlete Bri Hammond, who arrived on campus earlier this week to take summer classes and begin workouts with the UMaine women’s soccer team. Hammond, who attended Leavitt High School, said her dream had been to play college soccer, particularly at the Division I level. Contact: Jessica Bloch, […]
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The Strong Minds-Strong Bodies Inc.’s Wellness and Nutrition Summer Youth Camp founded by former UMaine football player Roosevelt Boone was featured recently on WABI (Channel 5) and also mentioned in the Bangor Daily News. A brief in the BDN announced the camp is providing free meals for eligible children through the Summer Food Service Program […]
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The website Inside Higher Ed has a story about the recent history and background of imposing penalties for NCAA violations, particularly the penalty of vacating games. The story mentioned that television bans as penalties have fallen out of favor, and the television ban was last applied to a Division I institution in 1996, when the […]
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A Saturday Bangor Daily News story featured several UMaine coaches and their children, who were interviewed about the rewards and challenges of playing sports with a parent who is a coach. Football coach Jack Cosgrove and his daughter Jeri, who will be a sophomore at UMaine next fall, and son Matt were featured along with […]
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Kash Kiefer, a former UMaine football player and cheerleader, has been cast on a new reality series, “Sweet Home Alabama,” according to The State Journal of Charleston, W. Va. The series, which is set to air at 9 p.m. starting on Thursday, July 14, on the CMT channel, is one of a group of bachelors […]
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There were numerous U.S. and Canadian news reports about the announcement that former UMaine hockey star Paul Kariya, who has struggled with concussions, is retiring from the NHL following a 15-year career. In a story carried by websites such as ESPN and MSNBC, Kariya said playing at UMaine and the support he received while he […]
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The Bangor Daily News had a story about UMaine’s ranking in the 2010-11 America East Academic Cup, which is presented to the America East institution whose student-athletes post the highest grade point averages during that academic year. UMaine (3.11) was one of six schools with a GPA of 3.00 or better, and the Black Bear […]
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The UMaine football team announced it will host on July 30 a 7-on-7 football tournament for high school teams, according to a news report on Bangor television station WABI. The report included comments from Coach Jack Cosgrove, who said the goal is to expose students in southern Maine to the UMaine campus and facilities while […]
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