If you look up "Maine Soccer" in some kind of strange, very specific dictionary, you'd get a picture of Scott Atherley. First as a student-athlete on the men's soccer team in the 1980s, and now with nearly three decades of experience as the head coach in Orono under his belt, there are few faces that are a fixture on campus like Coach Atherley. Coach stopped by the pod to chat about his team, his hobbies, and how Maine Soccer is using technology to take their training and game planning to the next level.

One of the most memorable and dominant players in recent Maine men's basketball history, 2011 grad and Maine-native Troy Barnies has built a nearly decade long career playing basketball overseas in Turkey, Russia, Finland, Latvia, and now Lithuania. We checked in with Barnies, who recently married his partner Sandra Steffensen-Barnies, who left her medical studies in Hungary to help her home country of Norway deal with COVID-19, managed to get out of Russia before the pandemic closed down international borders, and had a court in his hometown named in his honor, on the seventh episode of Black Bear Voices!

The Captain of Maine Men's Hockey jumped on episode six to talk about how one becomes a captain, why the music of the past is superior, and the fine art of Spotify playlist construction, on today's bakery-fresh episode of Maine Athletics' official podcast, Black Bear Voices!

The fifth episode of Black Bear Voices brings us Maine Softball alum Alyssa Derrick, who tied the single-season home run record during her time in Orono AND went viral chucking a football about sixty yards down the street on Maine Day. Now, she's signed with the Houston Stampede of the newly formed Women's Football League Association as their new quarterback. Catch the full conversation on Black Bear Voices, presented by Bangor Savings Bank!

For the fourth Black Bear Voices episode, we check in with Blanca Millan of Maine Women's Basketball. Already equipped with one of the best resumes in program history, Blanca has nearly completed a long road to recovery from a season ending injury early in her fourth season. After her rehab process, the team's tremendous 2019-20 season, and the eventual untimely ending, we checked in with the Spanish sensation during her first summer spent in Maine!

The third installment of Black Bear Voices features Maine Football alum and Pro Bowler from the Baltimore Ravens, Pat Ricard!

In this episode of 'Black Bear Voices', presented by Bangor Savings Bank, we caught up Maine Swimming's recent graduate, Sabrina Nuttall.

Nuttall, a two-year team captain and school relay record holder, is much more than a student-athlete. Nuttall took full advantage of her time the University of Maine, accomplishing many accolades through the ROTC program and is now a commissioned officer in the Marine Corps. The sky is the limit for Nuttall. We caught up with our America East and NCAA Woman of the Year nominee!

We caught up with track and field senior Alison Wyman, who chose to join a select group of her classmates in the UMaine Nursing program in graduating on an accelerated schedule in order to help the fight against COVID-19.