United States Coast Guard Academy - Department of Athletics

NEW LONDON, CONN.--(2/28/12)--Coast Guard Academy junior Greg Marshall has been named to the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Men’s Basketball All-conference second team in voting by the league's seven head coaches.

Marshall, who was the top three-point shooter in the conference, shooting 45.2 percent from behind the arc (38-84), led the Bears and was fourth in the NEWMAC with 15.7 points per game to earn All-conference honors for the first time in his career.

He shot 45.4 percent from the floor and averaged 3.1 rebounds for the Bears who finished 8-14 overall and 2-10 in conference play.

Marshall, the team captain, scored 20 or more points five times during the season as Coast Guard went 4-1 in those five games.

Men's Basketball - Bears Drop Season Finale

Trip Fernandes had 11 points and a team-high six rebounds in his final game.

NEW LONDON, CONN.--(2/18/12)--Junior Russell Braithwaite had 18 points while classmate Alex Rudolph added 15 points and eight rebounds leading Babson to a 78-68 win over Coast Guard in a New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) game, the final game of the season for the Bears.

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Babson (13-12, 6-6) clinched the fourth seed with the win and will host a first round game in the NEWMAC tournament on Wednesday night. Coast Guard finishes the season 8-14 overall and 2-10 in league play.

Coast Guard led by as many as six in the first half, the last being a 26-20 lead with 7:11 left in the first half before the Beavers used a 12-2 run to take a 32-28 lead with 2:53 left in the half. Babson led 38-34 at halftime.

LCDR Mark Harris

To celebrate Black History Month we will catch up with some Coast Guard Academy graduates who excelled while at the Academy and continue to shine as officers in the United States Coast Guard. This article is the first which will highlight their success.

LCDR Mark Harris, a 1996 graduate of the Coast Guard Academy has enjoyed a successful career in the Coast Guard and he is currently completing a tour as the Senior Port Engineer for the Long Range Enforcer Product Line, providing PE support to all of the 378’s and the Alex Haley. This summer, he will head back to Washington, DC as a member of Congressional Affairs where he will be a Senate Fellow.

His experiences in the Coast Guard have allowed him to see over 30 different countries and manage budgets of up to fifty million dollars, but he recalls one of his most memorable moments.

“My last patrol on CGC DALLAS ranks extremely high, when supporting the Navy during a five month overseas deployment to West Africa and the Black Sea, I had the opportunity to lead a diverse mix of seventy engineers, through three catastrophic propulsion equipment casualties, including a horrific gas turbine fire,” said Harris. “With a refusal to fail, our engineers restored DALLAS’ equipment enabling us to complete critical diplomatic commitments with twenty-two countries, including delivery of over 76,000 pounds of humanitarian assistance supplies to Batumi, Georgia following their conflict with Russia. Our efforts had significant global impact.”