AE On Campus Focuses on Winter Championships - AmericaEast.com

AE On Campus Focuses on Winter Championships - AmericaEast.com

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- America East On Campus, the conference's 30-minute magazine show, takes a closer look at the America East winter championships in the fifth episode of the sixth season. The latest episode will air Tuesday, March 1 at 3 p.m. on Comcast SportsNet throughout New England.

With the University of Hartford's Chase Family Arena as the backdrop, host Eric Frede opens up with a look ahead at the upcoming America East Men's and Women's Basketball Championship. The championship, presented by Newman's Own, will be held on the campus of the University of Hartford March 3-6. Frede speaks with AETV basketball analysts Frank Sullivan and Leah Secondo about the top teams, players and potential surprises of the upcoming tournament.

Frede also takes a look back at the America East Swimming and Diving Championship, hosted by UMBC at the Germantown Indoor Swim Center, and the America East Indoor Track and Field Championship, hosted by Boston University at the Boston U. Track and Tennis Center. UMBC won both the men's and women's titles in swimming and diving while University at Albany swept the men's and women's crowns in indoor track and field.

Next, Frede profiles UMBC junior guard Michelle Kurowski as part of the "Best of U" series. In addition to leading the Retrievers to their first America East regular-season title in women's basketball, Kurowski has also excelled in the classroom. The junior from Hicksville,N.Y., is set to earn her bachelor's degree in psychology after just three years and will pursue a master's degree in early childhood education at UMBC.

Finally, Frede sits down with University of Maine distance runner Riley Masters. As a junior, Masters has already won the America East cross country championship, taken first place in the 3,000-meter run at the indoor championship by a margin of more than five seconds and has run a sub-four-minute mile. The Bangor, Maine native talks about his athletic development in high school and in college as well as how he plans to challenge himself as a runner in the future.

America East On Campus is produced by Cod Rock Media of Kittery, Maine, which is owned by Frede and Dan Hannigan. Six original episodes will be produced and distributed during the 2010-11 season. Comcast SportNet in New England will debut all six episodes, while several re-airings will also air on the network. MASN, located in the Baltimore/Washington D.C. area, will also carry the show, as will Time Warner Cable in New York.

The show will also be available in the AmericaEast Zone at AmericaEast.com and on the conference's YouTube page following the debut airing.


Episode 5 will debut on Time Warner Thursday, March 3, at 6 p.m. Episode 5 of On Campus will re-air on MASN on Tuesday, March 8, at 7 p.m. Stay tuned to AmericaEast.com for the show's complete
2011 schedule.

America East On Campus Air Dates
Episode 5

Tue., March 1, 3 p.m. (Comcast SportsNet)
Thu., March 3, 6 p.m. (Time Warner)
Thu., March 3, 9 p.m. (Time Warner)
Fri., March 4, 5:30 p.m. (Time Warner)
Sun., March 6, 10:30 p.m. (Time Warner)
Tue., March 8, 7 p.m. (MASN)
Sun., March 13, 4 p.m. (MASN)
Mon., March 21, 7 p.m. (MASN)
Wed., March 23, 9:30 p.m. (MASN)

Episode 6
Thu., March 31, 3:30 p.m. (Comcast SportsNet)