Kelly Newton and Andrew Rogers Win M Club Dean Smith Awards
ORONO, Maine -- The University of Maine announced on Sunday that
Kelly Newton (Vancouver, British Columbia) of the field hockey team
and Andrew Rogers (Philadelphia, Pa.) of the men’s basketball
team are the recipients of the 2012 “M” Club Dean Smith
Awards. The awards are presented annually to the top male and
female student-athlete with outstanding academic and athletic
achievement along with citizenship and community service.
Kelly Newton is one of the best field hockey players in Maine
history. In the classroom, she is a three-time Maine
Scholar-Athlete Award winner and has also been named to the America
East Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll. Newton has earned a
spot on the Dean’s List.
On the field, Newton’s accomplishments are unequalled. She
holds seven University of Maine field hockey scoring records
including: points in a career (163), goals in a career (57),
assists in a career (49), points in a season (51), assists in a
season (25), points in a game (10) and assists in a game (3). This
past season, she was named a Longstretch/NFHCA Third Team
All-American and Women’sFieldHockey.com Third Team
All-American. She was named to the All-Northeast Region First Team
and was a unanimous selection to the America East First Team. She
participated in the 2011 NFHCA Division I Senior All-Star game and
was a two-time America East Player of the Week and also earned ECAC
Player of the Week honors.
As a junior in 2010, Newton was named the America East Offensive
Player of the Year. She was also named a unanimous selection to the
America East First Team along with being named to the
Longstreth/NFHCA All-American Third Team and the
Women’sFieldHockey.com All-America Third Team. She was also
selected to the All-Northeast First Team. As a sophomore, Newton
was also an America East First Team selection and received
Longstreth/NFHCA Division I All-Northeast Region Second Team
honors. As a freshman, Newton was named the America East Rookie of
the Year. She also earned a spot on the America East First Team and
the America East All-Rookie Team. She was selected to the
Longstreth/NFHCA All-Region First Team.
Newton is also active in the UMaine community. She has
participated in television commercials and radio ads with the
Partnership for a Tobacco Free Maine Campaign. She has also taken
part in a team fundraiser, ‘Stick it to Cancer.’ She
has volunteered at the American Red Cross Blood Drive and assisted
at the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service at the Bangor
Mall.
Rogers is Maine’s starting point guard. Just this past week
Rogers was named to the CoSIDA District I All-Academic First Team
and will now be played on the national ballot. He is a three-time
Maine Scholar-Athlete Award winner and has also been named to the
America East Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll three times.
Rogers is a two-time America East All-Academic selection and has
been named to the NABC Honors Court. Rogers was selected to Senior
Skulls, which is approximately the top one percent of males in the
senior class.
On the court, Rogers has played in 108 career games, making 25
starts. He has dished out 260 career assists. Rogers ranks fourth
in America East with 4.0 assists per game and is tops in the
conference with a 3.2 assist-to-turnover radio. He ranks fifth
nationally in assist-to-turnover ratio.
The “M” Club Dean Smith Award was first presented as
the “M” Club Scholarship Award in 1980. The award was
renamed to honor Dean Smith in 1993. Dean Smith was a recipient of
the Walter Byers Award presented by the NCAA. Smith combined the
top grade-point average among senior electrical engineering majors
with the NAC scoring title as the captain of the 1989-90
men’s basketball team.
In addition, the University of Maine Athletic Department named its
fifth annual “Team Maine” representing the top
sophomore, junior or senior achieving the highest grade point
average for the calendar year 2011. Representing “Team
Maine” for 2011 are:
Patrick Thibodeau, Baseball, KPE- Exercise Science
Andrew Rogers, Men’s Basketball, KPE - Teaching &
Coaching
Kelton Cullenberg, Men’s Cross Country and Track and Field,
KPE - Exercise Science
Roosevelt Boone, Football, Human Development - MS
Daniel Sullivan, Men’s Ice Hockey, Finance & Management
(DM)
Robert Bickford, Men’s Swimming, Biochemistry
Samantha Wheeler, Women’s Basketball, Psychology
Alexa Binnendijk, Field Hockey, Mass Communication
Ashley Norum, Women’s Ice Hockey, Biology
Ashley Kelley, Softball, Biology
Meaghan Bradica, Women’s Soccer, KPE - Exercise Science
Carmen Linden, Women’s Swimming, Sociology
Krislyn Hyatt, Women’s Cross Country, KPE - Exercise
Science
Rachel Wilkinson, Women’s Cross Country, Food Science &
Human Nutrition
Katy Grime, Women’s Track and Field, Civil Engineering
Kathryn Porter, Women’s Track and Field, Bioengineering
Alex St. Pierre, Cheering, Communication Sciences &
Disorders/Child Development
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