ORONO, Maine — University of Maine women’s basketball player Liz Wood and track and field competitor Wilson Adams received the school’s 2015 “M” Club Dean Smith Awards during an academic ceremony Monday night.
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.
Adams is a bioengineering major with a minor in physics who has been named to the Dean’s List six times and to the America East All-Academic Team three different times. He was awarded a double gold medallion as a four-time scholar-athlete Monday night.
Adams has been a teaching assistant, student research assistant and laboratory coordinator in the College of Engineering.
A captain of the track and field team, he has set multiple school records in the weight throw and hammer while at UMaine.
Wood, co-captain of the women’s basketball team, is a junior in the Honors College majoring in biology with a pre-med concentration and a minor in chemistry. She was named the 2013 America East Women’s Basketball Student-Athlete of the Year and is a two-time selection to the America East Commissioner’s Honor Roll. She received the Second Year Academic Book Award in the school of Biology and Ecology in 2013 and is a two-time finalist for the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association All-State Good Works team for her significant impact in the community, in the classroom and on the court.
Wood recently became the 18th women’s basketball student-athlete in school history to record 1,000 points when she accomplished the feat on Sunday against Hartford.
The UMaine Athletic Department also named its seventh annual “Team Maine,” representing the top sophomore, junior or senior achieving the highest grade point average for the calendar year 2014: Garet Beal, men’s basketball; Jeff Ondish, football; Ryan Fahey, men’s swimming; Scott Merrill, men’s track and field; Dan Renouf and Devin Shore, men’s hockey; Jesse Orach, men’s cross country; Jake Osborne, baseball; Caroline Curtis, cheering; Abigail Linn, women’s swimming; Eve L’Abbe and Joanie L’Abbe, women’s soccer; Sigrid Koizar, women’s basketball; Rebecca Paradee and Sydney Veljacic, field hockey; Stephanie Wood, softball; Shannon O’Neil and Abigail Wessels, women’s cross country; and Jessica Hall and Katelyn Massey, women’s ice hockey.