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From UMaine official web site:
http://goblackbears.collegesports.com/sports/m-hockey/spec-rel/012005aaa.html

Grant Standbrook Earns Major AHCA Award
Honored for career work as an assistant coach

Jan. 20, 2005

ORONO, Maine - Maine men's ice hockey assistant coach Grant Standbrook has
been awarded the 2005 Terry Flanagan Award which honors the career body of
work of an assistant coach by the American Hockey Coaches Association. The
award will be presented to Standbrook at the Coach of the Year banquet in
Naples, Florida, on April 23, 2005.

Grant Standbrook is in his 17th season at the University of Maine as
assistant coach and primary recruiter. Since coming to Maine in 1988,
Standbrook has coordinated recruiting of classes which have consistently
ranked among the best in the nation. Those recruiting classes at Maine
have formed the foundation for the program that has won five Hockey East
Tournament Championships, advanced to nine Frozen Fours and won two NCAA
Championships.





Overall, Standbrook has been on coaching staffs that have won five NCAA
Championships and been in the title game three other occasions. Before
joining the Black Bear staff, Standbrook was an assistant coach at
Wisconsin where he played an integral role in the Badgers winning three
national championships during his 12-year tenure at that school. Together
with head coach Bob Johnson, Standbrook built a college hockey dynasty,
winning national titles in 1977, 1981 and 1983 in addition to reaching the
NCAA Championship game on two other occasions.

From 1970-75, Standbrook was the head coach at Dartmouth College where he
inherited a program with just 29 wins in the previous 10 years, and led
the team to the Ivy League Championship game in his third season. He also
coached soccer and lacrosse for the Big Green. In 1987-88, he was the head
coach of Varese-Kronenberg of the Italian league where he led the team to
a second place finish. He was an assistant coach of the 1976 U.S. Olympic
hockey team, and the U.S. National teams in 1974 and 1975 and has coached
several teams for USA Hockey.

A native of Winnipeg, Manitoba, he is a 1961 graduate of the University of
Minnesota-Duluth. Standbrook was a two-year letterwinner for the Bulldogs,
scoring 22 goals and adding 24 assists in 31 career games as a center on
the hockey team. The team lost only eight games during his junior and
senior seasons. He also was a member of Minnesota-Duluth's track and field
team. A versitile athlete, Standbrook finished second in the Manitoba Judo
Championships in 1954. He also played on a Canadian national championship
soccer team in 1962 and was a profilic scorer in lacrosse.

Maine, 12-8-4 overall and 7-3-2 in Hockey East play, will face Boston
University on January 21 and 22 at Alfond Arena. For tickets or more
information, please call 207-581-BEAR or visit www.GoBlackBears.com.

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