Farmington native Blake Hart has been named an assistant men’s soccer coach at the University of Maine at Farmington.
Hart joins head coach Tommy DiNuzzo and the UMF coaching staff as the Beavers are coming off a North Atlantic Conference semifinal appearance last season.
Hart was a four-year letterwinner for the Castleton Spartans where he tallied 15 goals and six assists. He also was a member of the Castleton Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.
Hart has worked soccer camps at UMF youth summer camp, UMF high school preparatory camp, Thomas College and Colby College.
Hart’s volunteer experiences include coaching youth soccer and basketball and officiating youth soccer with the Farmington Recreation Department.
He has a coaching soccer certification from the United States Soccer Federation and graduated from Castleton in May with a bachelor’s degree in sports administration
Islesboro native is RPI’s new assistant golf coach
Student-athlete James Jackson of Islesboro has been named an assistant coach of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute golf team in Troy, New York.
One of the most accomplished golfers in school history, Jackson, a Belfast Area High School graduate, will aide 14th-year head coach Miles Nolan.
A captain as a senior in 2015-16, Jackson was All-Liberty League and All-Region in 2015-16 after he averaged a team-best 76.7 strokes over 18 rounds. He had four top 10 finishes, including third overall at the NYU Spring Invitational, fifth at the ECAC Championship in the fall and eighth in the four-round Liberty League Championship.
The Liberty League Performer of the Week once, Jackson’s best rounds included a 70 at The Ranch on the second day of the ECAC Tournament, three 73s and three 74s.
Jackson, the only golfer in Rensselaer history to earn National Academic All-America accolades, was a biomedical engineering major with a 3.93 cumulative grade point average.