Smith named to America East Preseason All-Conference Team

ORONO, Maine — University of Maine ladies’s basketball ahead Adrianna Smith has been chosen to the America East Preseason All-Conference Team, as introduced by the league on its annual media day Monday. 

In addition, the Black Bears had been chosen second with 55 factors and a pair of first place votes within the America East Preseason Coaches Poll.

Smith, who missed the 2024-25 season after struggling an harm within the preseason, is a two-time America East First Team All-Conference (2023, 2024) honoree and earned America East Player of the Year honors in 2023. In her final full season of competitors (2023-24), Smith averaged 16.4 factors and 10.8 rebounds whereas setting an America East single-season document with 22 double-doubles. Smith, who tallied her 1,000th profession level on Feb. 15, 2024, registered 10 or extra factors in 32 of 34 video games and 20 or extra factors in eight of these 34 throughout the 2023-24 marketing campaign. 

Maine returns two of its starters, together with Smith, from final 12 months’s workforce which completed the season with 15 total wins and 9 convention victories. Asta Blauenfeldt, named to the America East Championship Team a 12 months in the past, returns after beginning all 31 video games whereas averaging 9.7 factors, 2.6 rebounds, and a couple of.5 assists whereas taking pictures a team-leading 40.0-percent from three-point vary. Sarah Talon, who began 11 video games a 12 months in the past, additionally returns after showing in 29 video games whereas averaging 5.5 factors to go together with 2.6 rebounds and 1.4 assists.

Head coach Amy Vachon, a five-time America East Coach of the Year and Maine ladies’s basketball’s all-time winningest head coach, returns for her fifteenth total season on workers and ninth full season on the half.

The Black Bears open the 2025-26 season on Nov. 7 after they host Saint Joseph’s at Skip Chappelle Court inside Memorial Gymnasium. Season and single recreation tickets for the upcoming season are on sale now and might be bought on-line at GoBlackBears.com/tickets, by telephone at 207-581-BEAR, or in-person on the Alfond Arena ticket workplace.

 

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