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Whitney Sinclair (’14)
Michael Hart (’89)
Michael Hart played an integral part in the men’s Bengal basketball team to a Northeast Conference Championship in 1987. He led the state of Maine, as well as NAIA District 5 in assists in 1988. Michael received the selection to the NAIA District 5 All Conference Team that same year. While at UMFK, he received a leadership award in 1988 and was involved with the UMFK radio station. He graduated from UMFK in 1989 with a bachelor of science degree in business management and elementary education. Michael coached at his alma mater, Smithfield High School in Rhode Island, as an assis- tant coach for football and basketball.
Currently, Michael is a director of athletics and the boys’ basketball coach at
St. Andrew’s School in Barrington, Rhode Island and a part-time milieu therapist at Bradley Hospital in East Providence. He has run Hoops with Hart Basketball Camps and Clinics for the past 21 years. Michael has had a distinguished career as a coach at St. Andrews. His basketball teams have posted more than 400 wins, won six New England Prep School Championships and have attended 15 Final Fours in his 21 seasons. He has been named New England Prep School Coach of the Year six times and his teams have been ranked nationally by USA Today, Sports Illustrated, and other publications. Several of Hart’s student-athletes have gone on to play professionally in the NBA and internationally.
He has volunteered within his community with Special Olympics, Red Cross blood drives, YMCA young basketball clinics, and summer basketball camps.
Whitney led the Lady Bengal’s soccer team to back-to-back United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA) National Championships in 2010 and 2011. She was a three-time Sunrise Conference Player of the Year, who led the NAIA and USCAA in scoring during all four of her playing seasons. Whitney broke the school record at UMFK with 131 goals and added 56 assists for 319 points, while leading her teams
to an overall record of 67 wins, eight losses and one tie. She was named Sunrise Conference Rookie of the year, two-time USCAA All-American 1st Team selection and 2010 USCAA National Tournament Most Valuable Player.
Whitney was a member of the Student Nursing Organization. In 2011, she was named UMFK Female Athlete of the Year. As a student, she worked as a certified nurse’s aide for nursing homes and home health care services.
Whitney played one year for the Maine Tide, a women’s premier soccer team.
In the community, she has coached soccer and softball. She coached alongside hall
of famers Andre Anderson (’12) and Barrington Blake (’13) during summer camps at Nokomis High School. She graduated from UMFK in 2014 with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
Currently, Whitney works at Acadia Psychiatric Hospital in Bangor, Maine providing mental health services aimed at helping children.
P. Johnson Memorial Scholarship. He enjoys spending time at his summer home on Eagle Lake.
The Floyd “Red” Powell Award is presented annually by the UMFK Athletic Hall of Fame Committee to an individual who has made a sig- nificant contribution to the development and/or enhancement of UMFK Athletics and its student- athletes for an extended period of time.
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