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UMaine's athletic director said he fired women's basketball coach Cindy Blodgett because "the results on the court are not what we need with the program."
Blodgett was a star player when she was a UMaine student from 1993 to 1998, but she has not enjoyed such success as a coach. Under her four-year tenure, the team has logged a 24-94 record, routinely finishing at or near the bottom of the America East standings.
“This was hard,” athletic director Steve Abbott told the Bangor Daily News. [1] “We have somebody in Cindy Blodgett who has meant an incredible amount to this women’s basketball program here. We consider this to be a marquee program, one that’s very important to the athletic department, very important to the university, and that is looked at from over the whole state. “Cindy worked incredibly hard as a coach, was a very determined individual, but unfortunately the results on the court are not what we need with the program, and I had to make the decision to replace her.".
Blodgett, 35, was quoted by WLBZ-TV in Bangor as saying in a text message that she had been “fired without cause.” She plans to hold a press conference Thursday.
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Links:
[1] http://new.bangordailynews.com/2011/03/29/sports/blodgett-ousted-as-umaine-women’s-basketball-coach/?ref=mostReadBox
[2] http://www.kjonline.com/news/mural-protected-in-undisclosed-place_2011-03-28.html