Belfast’s Stewart earns trainers’ scholarship

Congratulations go out to Stephanie Stewart of Belfast, one of three students at Ohio University in Athens to receive scholarships from the National Athletic Trainers’ Association.

Smith, an athletic training major with a 3.74 grade point average on a 4.0 scale, will receive a $1,500 scholarship from the association during its Student Awards Banquet June 10 in Kansas City, Mo., at the National Athletic Trainers’ Association National Symposium.

Bates College of Lewiston has the singular distinction of being the home campus for the only undergraduate named by the Institute for International Sport as a 1992-1993 Sports Ethics Fellow.

Senior Kristy Gould is a dean’s list student majoring in American cultural studies and the second woman runner to earn All-America honors at Bates as a member of the cross country team. She joins an illustrious group of individuals who will conduct research and write on the contemporary issues of sportsmanship, ethics and fair play in the context of athletics, focusing on sportsmanship in college athletics.

The Institute for International Sport, which sponsors projects aimed at improving international goodwill through sports, is based at the University of Rhode Island. The individuals will work on a nationwide research project, help implement a team sportsmanship program in schools across the contry, and help plan National Sportsmanship Day.

Among those with whom Gould will work are U.S. Olympic Committee President Leroy Walker, former NCAA president Wilford Bailey, Boston Mayor Raymond Flynn, and Marion Washington, women’s basketball coach at the University of Kansas and president of the Black Coaches Association.

Girls ages 6-12 who would like to get a head start developing basketball skills will have an opportunity this summer when Old Town High School girls coach Garry Spencer launches his first Jam Camp.

The name came from “jamming a lot into a week,” Spencer said, “not jamming the ball.”

The all-girls day camp will be conducted at Old Town High School on Stillwater Avenue from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., June 28 through July 2.

“I’m really proud of the staff,” Spencer said, “because it all has Old Town roots.” Spencer’s assistant coach, Dana Martin, will be his assistant director. Coaches will include Mike Thurston, a basketball official who runs a girls peewee program at the Old Town-Orono YMCA, Old Town freshman coach Julie Kitchen, and T.J. Smart, a former men’s player and current varsity assistant.

Rounding out the staff are former Indian stars Diana Perkins Stowe, a 1,000-point scorer, who coaches the junior high team; Stephanie Bernier, the junior high coach in Milford; Denise Treadwell, who scored 1,000 points before heading to St. Joseph’s College in Standish; and Heather Brewer, who set the school’s career assist record before going to the University of Maine at Presque Isle.

The program will include shooting, videotaping with breakdowns, fast-break games, “do” lectures, individual written evaluations, and guest speakers. Individuals wishing to apply may contact the Old Town Recreation Department.

Congratulations are extended to University of Maine faculty member Holly Lenhard, an associate professor of education who was one of the first honorees of the Pathfinder Award, presented by the National Association for Girls and Women in Sports, an affiliate of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.

Lenhard was one of 26 individuals throughout the country selected for this honor, which was presented for her outstanding contributions to the advancment of sports for girls and women.

Lenhard, author of numerous publications and presentations and recipient of other awards in this field, has been on the university staff in Orono since 1986.