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Bengals in Action
Athletic Director Receives National Award
UMFK Athletic Director Bill Ashby was named the 2013-2014 Garth Pleasant Honorary Athletic Director of the Year at the United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA) national convention held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Ashby has served at UMFK since 2006 as athletic director and men’s soccer coach. Ashby came to UMFK with a wealth of experience as an athletic director and a successful career as a soccer coach.
The Bengals men’s soccer team has been to the national champions for the last four years. In 2010, the Bengals won the USCAA National Championship under Head Coach Bill Ashby, and last year finished as runner-up at nationals.
He also has served as coach or direc-
tor to numerous state, local, and national committees on teaching students and coaches the skills necessary to perform soccer at its highest level both on and
off the field. Ashby holds many coach- ing licenses issued through the National Soccer Coaches Association of America and the United States Soccer Federation.
Ashby currently chairs the USCAA’s Soccer Coaches Committee.
Below is the wording from the plaque:
For outstanding contributions made to the USCAA, as a long standing member of the Coaches Poll Committee, Chairman of the newly formed Soccer Coaches Committee, and for marketing efforts to promote USCAA membership growth and national recognition. The USCAA thanks you for all that you do to support the association.
New Athletic Trainer Joins UMFK
Travis A Parent, MS, ATC, CSCS, has joined the UMFK athletic depart- ment as the athletic trainer. Parent graduated from the University of Maine at Presque Isle (UMPI) in 2007 with a bachelor’s degree in athlet- ic training. Parent also received a mas- ter’s degree in exercise science with a concentration of performance enhance- ment and injury prevention through California University in Pennsylvania.
Travis earned his credential as a certi- fied strength and conditioning special-
ist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association. He is a per- formance enhancement and corrective exercise specialist through the National Academy of Sports Medicine. Travis is
also a certified instructor for the profes- sional rescuer through the American Heart
Association.
Parent previously served as assistant
athletic trainer and adjunct professor at the UMPI since 2012. Along with his duties in athletics, Travis served as a precep-
tor and clinical instructor to the CAATE approved Athletic Training Program, and as an instructor in the CAPTE approved Physical Therapy Assistant Program,
along with other classes in the College of
Professional Programs.
From 2009 to 2002, he served as
assistant athletic trainer at Oneonta State in New York, a Division III institution where he worked with many talented student-athletes. He worked closely with NCAA Division III All-Americans, team
and individual conference champions, a NCAA III Final Four Men’s Soccer program, and five NCAA III National Champions. Travis has served as head athletic trainer for Lee Academy from 2007 to 2009, the Oneonta Outlaws in 2010, a baseball team in the NYCBL, and at the National Soccer Hall of Fame to provide coverage for the tournaments, prior to closing in the fall of 2009.
Parent resides in the Fort Kent area with his wife, Elizabeth, and two sons Trai and Teddy. His father, Edgar Parent, gradu- ated from UMFK in 1971 and his mother, Vera (Dumond) Parent of Community High School in Fort Kent.
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