Jordan Friedland’s steady improvement on the court culminated in a state singles title.
Glenn Jordan
Glenn Jordan joined the Portland Press Herald in 1994 to cover the fledgling Portland Sea Dogs. A native of Vermont, he studied philosophy in college and worked at two newspapers in New Hampshire and one in Connecticut before moving to Maine. He spent his first two years of marriage living in the keepers quarters of the Portland Head Light and has three grown children. In addition to baseball, he has covered nearly every sport played in Maine, from biathlon and curling to running and sailing. Currently he works part-time and can be found near cross country trails in fall, swimming pools and ski slopes in winter and tennis courts in spring. All other times, he’s probably on a pickleball court. He is a two-time USA Pickleball national medalist (silver and gold) and played for both the Austin Ignite and Indianapolis Drivers in 2023, helping Indy win the inaugural National Pickleball League championship over Austin in a league for senior pros aged 50 and over.
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Girls’ Tennis Player of the YearOne bad experience set stage for a good one
Maisie Silverman of Brunswick became the state singles champ after losing in the 2011 final.
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Softball: Old Town rolls past Fryeburg
Kendra Hayward strikes out 15, baffling the defending champs and sparking Old Town.
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Baseball: Stingy Yachtsmen are best in Class B
Falmouth gets its third straight shutout and one timely hit to beat Foxcroft, 2-0.
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Joyce Wheeler: An early taste of inequities, then a chance to change them
Now a Superior Court justice for Cumberland County, Joyce Wheeler was a member of the women’s sailing team as an undergraduate at Boston University in 1970, two years before the implementation of Title IX legislation. Although both the men’s and women’s teams qualified for the national championships in Annapolis, Md., the school flew the men’s […]
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Lynn Welch: Once Title IX began, she saw fairness, respect
Lynn Welch was a sophomore at South Portland High School in 1972, the year Title IX legislation went into effect. That spring she won the first of three consecutive state singles tennis titles. Welch went on to play tennis and basketball at Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla. Since 1991, she has been a professional […]
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Leigh Saufley: When Saufley was in school, ‘girls’ sports were not big’
As the first female chief justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, Leigh Saufley wears distinguished black robes in the courtroom – a far cry from the hideous “unitard” she recalls wearing for physical education as a girl in the South Portland school system. “They were these one-piece gym suits intended to make you never […]
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Dr. Dora Anne Mills: Sports in school became a lifetime passion
Dr. Dora Anne Mills remembers the buzz on the Bowdoin College campus on a spring day in 1979, when fellow student Joan Benoit won the Boston Marathon. “That evening I was in the cafeteria and she walked in to get dinner,” said Mills. “She had to go behind this wall to get her food, and […]
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Girls’ lacrosse: Veroneau helps Flyers upend Capers
Martha Veroneau has a hand in 10 of the 11 goals as Waynflete reaches the girls’ lacrosse state final.
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Boys’ tennis: Gorham’s first title, two been-there teams
Falmouth and Waynflete continue their state championship runs, both with shutout victories.