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August 2010, Personnel Moves
Maine Turns to Abbott as AD
Steve Abbott has been named interim athletic director at the University of Maine replacing Blake James who stepped down to return to the University of Miami. Abbott played football at Harvard and has been serving as chief of staff for Senator Susan Collins. Abbott practiced law in Maine following his graduation from the University of Maine Law School.
Abbott was a legendary Orono High School athlete, starring on football teams that never lost a game during his four-year career. After graduating from high school, he enrolled at Harvard where he earned a history degree and served as the football team's 111th captain. A 1991 University of Maine Law School graduate, he practiced law at Pierce Atwood in Portland and studied sports management in the University of Massachusetts graduate program before becoming Collins' chief of staff in 1997. To read more, click here.