FARMINGTON, Maine – Director of Athletics, Fitness,
and Recreation Julie Davis is pleased to announce the hiring of four
assistant coaches to the University of Maine at Farmington coaching
staff.
David Yates joins the
UMaine-Farmington men’s soccer coaching staff after assuming successful
coaching positions with various college summer camps. He served as a
camp assistant at Gettysburg College in July 2015 and the Lynchburg City
School District in June 2015. The sports management major assisted
Coach Tommy DiNuzzo in June with UMF’s summer camp, which saw one of its
highest attendance rates ever.
As a head coach, Yates guided the junior varsity team at EC Glass
High School in Lynchburg. Prior to EC Glass, he served at the helm of
Central Virginia United, a U8 level team and then coached the academy
program a year later.
In college, Yates worked at the Lynchburg College Showcase during his
four years as a camp assistant and became a coach in his final two
years at the event. Prior to the Showcase, Yates helped with the
Fauquier County Soccer Club and coached a variety of age groups.
Originally from Warrenton, Virginia, Yates received his Bachelor of Arts degree in the summer of 2015 from Lynchburg.
Erica Fredrick-Rock joins the softball coaching staff after graduating from the University of Maine at Augusta in May 2015.
As a women’s basketball player at UMA, Fredrick-Rock played in 20
games as a senior with three starts. The forward grabbed 45 total
rebounds off the glass in her final year in a Moose uniform.
Fredrick-Rock graduated with a degree in biology. She had a very
impressive resume at UMA, including being honored as a Rising Scholar,
president of the HPSA/Honors Program, was a member of the Honors
Program, a KLI Leadership recipient, a Maine NEW Leadership scholarship
recipient, and spent a week in Haiti on a Global Health Service Mission.
For five years, Fredrick-Rock also worked as a volunteer fundraising
liaison at the Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Midcoast Maine while working
at Bank of America full-time. She also served in the United States Air
Force as a Cryptologic Linguist for two years.
In high school, Fredrick-Rock was a three-sport athlete playing soccer, basketball, and track & field.
Originally from Augusta, Fredrick-Rock will work primarily with the infielders under head coach Paul Rodrigue.
Ashley Peaslee joins the UMF
softball program after spending the past two seasons at Plymouth State
College as a women’s basketball assistant coach. A 2013 graduate of the
University of Maine at Augusta (UMA), Peaslee was a three-sport athlete
competing in soccer, basketball, and bowling, serving as captain of all
three sports for four years. Peaslee was the starting sweeper all four
years for soccer, being named All-Conference three years in a row and
was a member of the National Championship All-Tournament team her
freshman year.
Peaslee was the starting point guard all four years for the UMA Lady
Moose basketball team, becoming the first female player at UMA to score
1,000 career points. In her senior year, Peaslee helped lead the Moose
to their first-ever regular season championship, and she led the nation
in steals three times. She was also a member of the 2013 YSCC bowling
conference championship team finishing fourth overall.
Peaslee will work with the outfielders under Coach Rodrigue.
Ryan Wagner returns to the University of Maine at Farmington as a men’s and women’s cross country and track and field assistant coach.
Wagner spent the previous three seasons as the head coach of the
cross country team at Georgia’s Kennesaw State. Wagner joined the Owls
in 2011 and served one season as an assistant after coaching cross
country at UMF and track and field at Colby College in Maine.
Wagner served as the head men’s and women’s cross country coach at UMF
for three seasons. During his tenure, the women’s team earned three
consecutive North Atlantic Conference championships from 2008-2010 and
he was named NAC Coach of the Year in 2009. While spending the 2011
season at Colby, Wagner worked as an assistant track and field coach,
focusing on sprints, hurdles and horizontal jumps.
Wagner received his bachelor’s degree in health and exercise science
with a minor in physical education from Syracuse University in 2000,
where he competed in track and field and cross country for the
Orangemen. He earned his master’s degree in health & physical
education, with a concentration in sport management, from East
Stroudsburg University in 2002.
Wagner also works as a University police officer for the University of Maine at Farmington.
