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UMBC softball’s Kennedy Lamb is a four-year academic standout and will soon be moving on to the next phase of her life, but her time at the school has been marked by the steps she’s taken to improve her mental health.
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The UMBC men’s swimming and diving team won the America East championship in a four-day meet which concluded Feb. 16, marking the Retrievers’ third straight title.
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For UMBC’s Te’yJah Oliver, a breakthrough senior year started in a familiar place with a little push from first-year head coach Johnetta Hayes.
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“The sky is the limit,” new UMBC athletic director Brian Barrio said as he met with the media Dec. 17. “And the question is just how creative can we be, how hard can we push it to kind of take it to the next level.”
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UMBC has hired Brian Barrio as the school’s new director of athletics, physical education and recreation, effective January 2020.
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Led by UMBC student-athletes Justin Barragan and Taylor Dunn, the “Retriever Project” aims to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness, raise awareness of the issue and help promote resiliency in student-athletes.
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Quantrell Jones looks like a football player, but soccer is the UMBC goalkeeper’s sanctuary. “It’s like my happy place,” Jones said. “It’s somewhere I can go and I can relax and I can have fun. It’s that one place where every little thing goes away for me.”
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Darnell Rogers, the son of Lake Clifton legend and former professional basketball player Shawnta Rogers, is coming back to Baltimore to play for UMBC men’s basketball. “I’m just looking forward to teaming up with them and winning some championships,” Rogers said.
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Led by first-year coach Chris Kuhlmeyer and freshman left-hander Courtney Coppersmith, UMBC softball won the America East, earned the program’s first America East title and started a new tradition for future players to build upon.
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A poorly-timed injury threw her recruitment for a loop, but Lauren McDonald ended up at the right place. Now a graduate student, McDonald is a record-setting attacker for the UMBC women’s lacrosse team and working in the field of environmental science.
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