There’s nothing like a rivalry, and this past weekend’s Bowdoin v. Colby men’s hockey game–at the sold-out Watson arena on a snowy February night–didn’t disappoint. With the right to host next weekend’s NESCAC finals hanging in the balance, the game incited all sort of craziness. Like fans who painted giant B’s on their chests and...
This past Saturday we were very fortunate to cover Commencement exercises at Bowdoin College for the fourth year. While another company snaps a photo of each graduate as she or he is handed a diploma by Bowdoin President Barry Mills, my assistant Angie Devenney and I were hired by the College to capture the story...
That sound you heard coming out of Brunswick earlier this week was a collective groan over the news that record-setting Bowdoin womens’ basketball coach Stefanie Pemper is leaving Maine. The talented coach has been selected as womens’ basketball coach at the U.S. Naval Academy. In her ten years on the Brunswick campus Stefanie has guided...
Last week I was able to travel to Mississippi and Louisiana and witness firsthand the damage wrought by Hurricane Katrina. Though I grew up on the Alabama Gulf Coast, and visited Mississippi numerous times after Hurricane Camille struck there in 1969, I still wasn’t prepared for how widespread and intense Katrina’s destruction would be. At...
Bowdoin College’s advance through the NCAA Division III Women’s Basketball Tournament came to an end Saturday at the hands of cross-state rival University of Southern Maine. The Polar Bears were eliminated 56-53 when a last-second desperation three-point shot failed.It was the second Polar Bear loss this season against the Huskies, both on the Huskie’s home...
The Bowdoin College women’s basketball team inched its way into the Elite Eight of the NCAA Division III Women’s Basketball Tournament with a hard-fought win Friday night over the University of Mary Washington of Fredericksburg, Virginia. The Polar Bear women came out on top 62-54 in a back-and-forth battle; the Polar Bears started slow and...
Congratulations to the Bowdoin College women’s basketball team, which advanced to the Sweet Sixteen of the of the NCAA Division III Women’s Basketball Tournament with two wins this weekend. This will be the sixth consecutive Sweet Sixteen appearance for the Polar Bears, coached by Stefanie Pemper. Pemper, who is in her eighth year at the...
Okay, so we will probably never compete with Hawaii, but we do have our own surfers in Maine. And, we’re not talking the kind that navigate a keyboard with ten fingers. We’re talking ten toes on an honest-to-goodness surfboard. My assignment yesterday was to accompany a trio of Bowdoin College students who would make their college...
