ORONO - The Maine men's basketball program officially announced the departure of Assistant Coach Edniesha Curry on Monday afternoon, as she will join the Portland Trail Blazers as an assistant coach.

Curry will join Head Coach Chauncey Billups' new staff in Portland alongside Scott Brooks, Roy Rogers, Steve Hetzel,and Milt Palacio.

Coach Curry has coached at Maine since 2015, moving to the men's team from the women's program alongside Head Coach Richard Barron in 2018. For the majority of her tenure with the men's program, she was the lone full-time female coaching Division I basketball. 

Curry is a graduate of the NBA Assistant Coaches' Program where she gained experience working at the NBA Draft Combine and the NBA G League Showcase. In 2019, Curry served as a guest coach for San Antonio's summer league team and assisted with Minnesota's pre-draft workouts. She has also coached and done player development work internationally in Vietnam, China, Israel and Palestine. 

As a player, Curry played in the WNBA for Phoenix and Los Angeles along with teams overseas in Greece, Poland, Israel and Hungary from 2002-09. It is a return to the Pacific Northwest for Curry, who graduated from the University of Oregon, where she played the final two seasons of her college career before being selected in the 2002 WNBA Draft.