Orono, Maine -- On Tuesday, June 27, the University of Maine and the 'M' Club Sports Hall of Fame committee announced that legendary men's ice hockey assistant coach Grant Standbrook has been added to the previously announced UMaine Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2017.

Standbrook spent 21 seasons behind the bench at UMaine, serving as an assistant coach on Maine's 1993 and 1999 National Championship teams. While at Maine, he racked up an impressive 506-234-69 record as an assistant and was the 2005 recipient of the Terry Flanigan Award, presented by the American Hockey Coaches Association to honor an assistant coach's career body of work. In total over his career, he coached and mentored 34 All-Americans, eight U.S. Olympians and two Canadian Olympians and a pair of Hobey Baker Award winners (Scott Pellerin, Paul Kariya). In total over his 38 seasons in collegiate coaching, Standbrook developed 69 future National Hockey League players.

Standbrook served 18 years as a full-time assistant and UMaine's recruiting coordinator before stepping back and serving as a volunteer assistant for his final three years on staff. Over his 18 years as Maine's lead recruiter, he coordinated recruiting classes which consistently ranked among the best in the nation. As a direct correlation to his incredible recruiting efforts from 1987 to 2007, Maine had the best winning percentage in the nation at .713 (527-224-68).

Those recruiting classes at UMaine formed the foundation for the program which won five Hockey East Tournament Championships, advanced to 11 Frozen Fours and won two NCAA Championships. Overall, Standbrook served on coaching staffs which won five NCAA Championships (three while at Wisconsin) and been in the title game four 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 and led the team to the Ivy League Championship game in his third season.

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 the assistant coach of the 1976 U.S. Olympic hockey team, the U.S. National teams in 1974 and 1975 and coached several teams for USA Hockey.

Standbrook, and the previously announced UMaine Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2017, will be inducted in a ceremony and dinner set for Sept. 8.

UMaine Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2017

Inductee	Affiliation
1993 Men's Ice Hockey Team	National Champions
Mike DeVito	Football
Charles "Chuck" Martin	Swimming
Daniel Rearick	Track & Field
Grant Standbrook	Men's Ice Hockey
David Thompson	Baseball
Gary Thorne	Broadcaster
Vicki Tolton	Women's Track & Field
Ashley Waters	Softball

For the full, original release of the Class of 2017 - please click HERE.

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