1986-87 University of Maine Women\u27s Basketball Media Guide

What do you do for an encore when your team has completed the season with a 22-7 record and established a new New England Division I record with 18 straight wins to open the campaign? That\u27s the question facing University of Maine Black Bear coach Peter Gavett as he prepares his team for the 1986-87 season. And Gavett expects his Bears will be even better this year. The reason is that everyone except two players returns and in the wings are two outstanding prospects who were redshirted or ineligible to play last season. Gavett also obtained two top recruits, adding some height and speed to the club. You can see why the Bear camp is optimistic

1988-89 Women\u27s Basketball Media Guide

Patricia Roberts, 33, was named head coach of the University of Maine women’s basketball program August 23, 1988, and thus became just the third head coach of that program since its inception as an intercollegiate activity in 1975. Although this is her first head coaching position, Trish comes with the credentials that will make her an outstanding role model for the women who will make up the 1988-89 roster. An All-American basketball player, an Olympian and a former professional player, Trish has also had valuable coaching experience in the big time of women’s basketball

Maine Women\u27s Basketball, University of Maine 1984-85

Since 1983-84 when Peter Gavett took over as women\u27s basketball coach, the team has undergone many new changes. With the formation of the new Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) Seaboard Conference, Maine will be competing against Boston University, University of New Hampshire, Northeastern University, the University of Vermont, Hartford and Brooklyn College on a regular basis for a league championship. Two to four more teams may be added in the next year to give Maine a highly competitive Division I conference. In addition to the conference, Maine has upgraded its schedule to include such nationally ranked teams on the East Coast as the University of Virginia, which last year finished first in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC)

1989-90 University of Maine Women\u27s Basketball Media Guide

Second-year head coach Trish Roberts returns all five starters from a team that posted a 19-8 overall record, and cruised to the regular-season Seaboard Conference title. Roberts continued the winning tradition of one of the most successful women’s basketball programs in the East. Over the past five years, the Black Bears have compiled a 106-37 record. After finishing the regular season with a 13-1 conference record, Maine dropped a 60-47 contest to Northeastern in the Seaboard Conference Tournament. It was the fourth time in the past five years that the Black Bears have fallen to the Huskies in post-season play. With eight players returning, six of whom appeared in the starting line up in the 1988-89 season, and a promising recruiting class, Roberts\u27 sights are on the elusive postseason championship, and an NCAA tournament bid

Maine Women\u27s Basketball Media Guide, 1985-86

Women’s basketball, as an intercollegiate activity, had its beginning in the 1971-72 season, along with a number of other women’s sports. Unfortunately, there is no statistical compilation of the early days of women’s basketball until the 1975-76 season. In that season Eilene Fox was named head coach and she continued in that post until the 1983-84 season when Peter Gavett assumed the reins