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Maine Basketball

Hall of Fame Inducts

Meader and Reed

Dick Meader ’68 and Roger Reed ’65
were recently selected to join The Maine
Basketball Hall of Fame as members of the
Class of 2015. Inducton ceremonies will
take place Thursday, August 23, 2015, at the Dick Meader ’68
Cross Insurance Center in Bangor. Tickets
Bob Bailie to the event can be purchased online at
mainebasketballhallofame.com.

Meader, currently UMF men’s basketball Reed won more
Olympian Joan Benoit Samuelson head coach, has coached for 40 years: 17 than 500 games in Bangor Daily News
seasons at Thomas College and the last 23
his three decades
Endorses New Track and Field Team at UMF. His teams have amassed nearly 450 of coaching. In his
wins, including 270 at UMF, and he has been
27 years as Bangor
named Coach of the Year fve tmes. High School’s
coach, his teams
Meader has coached three All-Americans, won eight state
three Academic All-Americans and has been championships Roger Reed ’65
named basketball or baseball Coach of the and more than 75
Year nine tmes by his peers. Meader is a percent of their games at Bangor Christan and Bangor High
member of the UMF Athletcs Hall of Fame. Schools. Reed belongs to the UMF Athletcs Hall of Fame.

Ramsey Earns All-American Status at USCSA National Championship

Emily Ramsey ’18 placed eighth overall at the annual U.S. Collegiate Ski and
Snowboard Associaton Natonal Championship, held March 2-7, 2015 at Mt. Bachelor
in Oregon. More than 500 compettors rolled into the very challenging Cascade Range
of central Oregon to compete for natonal collegiate ttles in alpine, nordic, and
snowboard/freestyle events.

Ramsey fnished in the top 10 in two of the Nordic heats. In the 7.5k classic race, she
placed 17th. She placed fourth in the Freestyle Sprint, a race so compettve that she
was only one second of the lead pace. She rounded out her partcipaton with a sixth-
place fnish in the 15k Free Skate race. Ramsey also won USCSA Scholar-Athlete and First Team All-American
honors for her Freestyle Sprint performance. She earned a Second Team All-American selecton for her overall
placement.

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