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ice hockey/Travis Roy Award
March 15, 2008
A little bit of perspective

There wasn’t a Travis Roy Award in existence when Jeff Libby was at Waterville High School, playing for Norm Gagne. In fact, Libby is astounded at the growth of high school hockey since 1992, his senior year.

“You see teams today, and some of the better teams that didn’t even exist a few years ago, programs like Bonny Eagle and Gray-New Gloucester/Poland," said Libby, who played at the University of Maine and in the AHL. "Any time you can get teams and get people involved, that’s great for hockey.”

Libby will be the keynote speaker at Sunday's Maine Class A Hockey banquet in Lewiston, where the Travis Roy Award will be presented to the top senior in Class A hockey.

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To learn a bit more about Travis Roy and his charitable foundation, check out www.travisroyfoundation.org

Posted by Rachel Lenzi at 11:03 AM
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Rachel is in her fourth year as a sports reporter at the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. A Maryland native and a former college soccer and softball player, she covered high school and college sports at newspapers in Pennsylvania, Texas and Colorado before joining the Press Herald/Sunday Telegram staff in June of 2004.

She grew up watching the NHL, the Pittsburgh Steelers, Georgetown basketball and the Baltimore Orioles and is a confessed sports nut. Her interests include reading and movies, going to the gym, Motown and '70s R&B music and following the New York City tabloids.

Married in July, she and her husband Tommy are avid Steelers and Kansas Jayhawks fans. Their toughest decision as newlyweds has been "NESN or ESPN?"



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