Date: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 Time: 5:30pm-7:30pm Location: Holiday Inn by the Bay, Portland, 88 Spring St., Portland Come out and network with the Portland
Month: August 2012
Staying focused
Julia Clukey 28 Olympic luge Augusta The Summer Olympic Games are over for another four years. But Julia Clukey’s road to the 2014 Winter Games
World-class lifter is a powerhouse
JoAnn Clough 65 Weight lifting champion Bangor When she was growing up in Tyrone, Pa., in the 1960s, JoAnn Clough’s athletic career consisted of doing
Champ archer has sights set on Olympics
Kendal Nicely 21 World Champion junior archer Gorham Kendal Nicely, 21, of Gorham remembers the bleachers full of people yelling “USA, USA,” and the video
Roller derby far more than sport
Reba Richardson (alias “Roto Tilda”) 35 Roller derby blocker Warren Reba Richardson admittedly leads a bit of a double life. By day, she sows fields,
At ripe age of 16, a tennis phenom
Maisie Silverman 16 Tennis champion Brunswick Sixteen-year-old Maisie Silverman has been racquet-in-hand since age 5. At age 10, she began competing, and now, six years
Good time for women in golf
Abby Spector 31 Head pro at Sugarloaf Mountain Resort Golf School Carrabassett Valley When Abby Spector was 14, she and her father and younger brother
Inspiring others for more than 30 years
Elaine Talevi 65 Aerobics instructor/personal trainer Wells When people enter Elaine Talevi’s aerobics class at 8 a.m., they might find themselves warming up to anything
For women, greater Olympic stardom
From the moment the lithe, blonde saber champion Mariel Zagunis of Beaverton, Ore., stepped into London’s Olympic spotlight as flag bearer for the American team,
Women’s Work – ‘Trust yourself’
Mara Higgins is proof that perseverance pays off. Before she even had a business, she was pitching it throughout the Old Port the oldfashioned way
