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Taking Care Of Business On And Off The Court

Taking Care Of Business On And Off The Court

It’s on thing to be a good athlete, it’s another thing to be a good student, but it’s simply incredibly to have a team of 11 basketball players who combined for the third highest grade-point-average in the nation among N.C.A.A. Division I team in the 2009-10 academic year. The team had an average G.P.A. of [...]

UMBC Sports Blog Winter Awards

UMBC Sports Blog Winter Awards

You may consider it to have been a down winter but there was plenty of action going on. This season’s sports were men’s basketball, women’s basketball, men’s track and field, women’s track and field, men’s swimming and diving, and women’s swimming and diving. The men’s swimming and diving team certainly had a lot of success [...]

Fan’s Choice Athletes Of The Winter

Fan’s Choice Athletes Of The Winter

Polls will close Monday, March 22, 2010 @ 12:00 am. Fan’s Choice Male Athlete Of The Winterpolls Fan’s Choice Female Athletes Of The Winterpoll

Cold Retrievers Get Bumped From First Round Of AEC Tournament, Live Blog- Women’s Basketball vs. Boston U (America East Tournament)

Cold Retrievers Get Bumped From First Round Of AEC Tournament, Live Blog- Women’s Basketball vs. Boston U (America East Tournament)

Carlee Cassidy scored 18 points in her final collegiate game. After beating Boston U twice during the season the Retrievers certainly had a disappointing outing against them in the tournament. Rushed shots, lack of a post presence, and poor passing just doomed UMBC as they lost 60-40 in the opening round of the America East [...]

Women’s Basketball Tournament, Round 1 Preview

Women’s Basketball Tournament, Round 1 Preview

Cassidy Named Second Team All-America East, Kurowski Left Off Again

Cassidy Named Second Team All-America East, Kurowski Left Off Again

2010 America East Women’s Basketball All-Conference Award Winners First Team: Chantell Alford- Boston U Erica Beverly- Hartford Diana Delva- Hartford May Kotsopoulos- Vermont Courtnay Pilypaitis- Vermont Second Team: Erica Carter- Binghamton Carlee Cassidy- UMBC Andrea Holmes- Binghamton Kirsten Jeter- Stony Brook Candace Williams- New Hampshire Third Team: Charity Iromuanya- ALbany Mo Moran- Boston U Jackie [...]

America East Women’s Basketball Post Season Preview

America East Women’s Basketball Post Season Preview

Women’s Basketball Drops Season Finale To Stony Brook, 59-48

Women’s Basketball Drops Season Finale To Stony Brook, 59-48

Erin Brown had 11 points and 10 rebounds in her start against Stony Brook, but UMBC shot poorly from the field in the second half and fell to the sixth seed in the America East tournament. Oddly enough UMBC may be in the better situation after losing the game and falling to sixth place. If [...]

Women’s Basketball @ Boston U Preview (Season Finale)

Women’s Basketball @ Boston U Preview (Season Finale)

First: I would like to apologize for not having a previews for the men’s and women’s basketball games on Wednesday while the site was online, but with the site being offline for three days I had a lot of things to take care of first. Probable Starters: UMBC (13-15, 7-8): C- Tope Obajolu (7.9 ppg, [...]

Cassidy and Gilliam Finalists For Fan’s Choice Player of the Year

Cassidy and Gilliam Finalists For Fan’s Choice Player of the Year

Of the original 18 athletes eligible for each the men’s and women’s fan’s choice players of the year, both Chauncey Gilliam and Carlee Cassidy received enough votes to be among the final five contests for each award.