New for the 2011-2012 season, the America East Daily word, a collaboration between AmericaEast.com and AExtra, will recap the previous day's games and on goings on out nine campuses and provide links to recaps, previews and exclusive coverage.

As a freshman in Burlington, Brian Voekel put up staggering numbers for the Catamounts, numbers that don't normally belong to rookies.  

Voekel started all 32 games during his first season at UVM, scoring nearly eight points, grabbing a conference-leading 9.6 rebounds, dishing out 4.5 assists and registering 1.6 steals per game.  Voekel was the conference rookie of the year, a stat machine and a major reason why UVM captured the regular season conference title.   

Slam Magazine took notice of the stocky forward profiling him in a recent article as reason for hope in Burlington.  After graduating first-team all-conference player (and mustache) Evan Fjeld and professionally-contracted Joey Accaoui, while also losing a head coach who led the program to three regular season conference championships, things would apparently seem gloomy in Burlington.  

Not with Voekel coming back.  He will assuredly make first-year head coach John Becker's life a little easier knowing that the 6'6" bruiser will be in his corner when the 2011-2012 campaign gets underway.

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