Travis Lazarczyk – Page 109 – The Portland Press Herald

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Travis Lazarczyk has covered sports for the Portland Press Herald since 2021. A Vermont native, he graduated from the University of Maine in 1995 with a BA in English. After a few years working as a sports information director and in the ski industry, he began his journalism career at the Berlin (N.H.) Reporter in 1999. Prior to joining the Press Herald, Lazarczyk spent 20 years covering sports in central Maine at the Morning Sentinel and Kennebec Journal. He's been twice honored as the Maine Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sports Media Association.

Sports

Madison native making impact in women’s football league

by Travis Lazarczyk July 18, 2020July 18, 2020

Jessica Hayden embraces her competitive side as a key member of the Boston Renegades.

Field Hockey, Sports, Varsity Maine

Girls’ team Coach of the Year: Mary Beth Bourgoin, Winslow

by Travis Lazarczyk July 12, 2020July 10, 2020

Bourgoin has a simple coaching philosophy: ‘They are the daughters of somebody who loves them very much. … I try to make sure I think of that when I coach them.’

Maine colleges, Sports

Some college football programs in state exploring a spring season

by Travis Lazarczyk July 9, 2020July 9, 2020

The New England Small College Athletic Conference has applied for a waiver from the NCAA, sources say, while others are still mulling options.

Maine colleges, Sports

Some college football programs in state exploring a spring season

by Travis Lazarczyk July 9, 2020July 9, 2020

The New England Small College Athletic Conference has applied for a waiver from the NCAA, sources say, while others are still mulling options.

Football, Sports, Times Record Sports, Varsity Maine

Radical changes floated as way to facilitate fall sports

by Travis Lazarczyk June 14, 2020June 15, 2020

Moving baseball and softball from spring to fall, and football and soccer from fall to spring, has been suggested as an idea to help Maine schools adhere to coronavirus safety guidelines.

Girls Basketball, Maine colleges, Sports, UMaine Sports, Varsity Maine

UMaine women’s basketball coach ‘shocked’ there are so few female high school girls hoop coaches in state

by Travis Lazarczyk June 6, 2020June 6, 2020

With just 27 women coaching girls high school basketball, Amy Vachon organizes online workshop to help generate more interest.

Local & State, Schools and Education

Fifty years later, Colby College’s Class of 1970 recounts disruption to semester’s end

by Travis Lazarczyk May 24, 2020May 24, 2020

As the coronavirus pandemic has forced changes to Colby’s final weeks of classes and traditional commencement ceremonies, members of the class of 1970 recall how protests and tension that year also disrupted the end of the semester even as their own 50th reunion is now canceled.