Corey's Bio
Born in Baltimore, Corey Johns has dreamed of becoming a sports writer since he was in fifth grade. As the son of a collegiate soccer coach and an Orioles fanatic, sports have always been a big part in Corey's life. He played little league soccer and baseball until he started high school at Calvert Hall. While at Calvert Hall Corey wrote for the Student Newspaper for four years, covering football, basketball, and cross country. Also, while at Calvert Hall Corey was a four year starter on the Rugby team and during his senior year he joined the football team. Now Corey attends UMBC. During his first two years Corey was a beat writer and covered every team the school has. He has covered the NCAA men's basketball tournament in 2008 and back-to-back NCAA men's lacrosse tournaments in 2008 and 2009. Now as a junior Corey has worked his way up to being the sports editor.
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When you’re giving it all you have game in and game out and are only ...
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When you’re giving it all you have game in and game out and are only 2-21 and 1-9 in your conference how do you stay motivated? Until this game UMBC was playing competitive ball, and even if they were losing by a big margin they were still hustling and giving it their all, but against Maine ... Read More »
The UMBC women’s basketball team broke a four game home skid as they shut down the opposing Maine, 57-45, in a game delayed one day. While the game was supposed to be played on Saturday, the snow storm pushed the tip-off a day later and the team hit on all cylinders with the extra time to ... Read More »
The UMBC men’s basketball team had to play a day earlier than expected due to the impending snow storm that could have created problems tomorrow. But they certainly looked like they could have used an extra day to get ready for the Catamounts. They just could not get into a rhythm during the game. ... Read More »
The UMBC women’s basketball team showed no reason they belonged on the same court as Hartford on Tuesday night in a 85-45 loss. While UMBC almost won, and probably outplayed Hartford, the last time these two teams met, this time the story could not have been more different. UMBC allowed just two points shy of 50 at ... Read More »
Robbie Jackson scored the game winning basket with 1.4 seconds left to give UMBC a 56-55 upset victory over conference leading Maine. With 1:12 remaining the the game the UMBC men’s basketball team’s dreams of an upset of first place Maine looked to be gone as Black Bear point guard Junior Bernal stole the ball from ... Read More »
It has been a very surprising first half of conference play for the UMBC women’s basketball team. Last season they were terrible on the road and this season they seem to only be able to win on the road. While the team is 3-0 on the road in conference play they are 0-5 in the ... Read More »
In easily there worst performance of the year, the UMBC men’s basketball team came out in from of a home crowd completely flat against their 2009 Championship opponent Binghamton Bearcats as they lost, 80-63. UMBC had a chance to get back into the game after a 34-27 halftime deficit when Chauncey Gilliam hit a short jumper ... Read More »
After looking like a serious competitor following their first three conference games the women’s basketball team was blown out in three straight home games and looked like a bottom dweller of the America East. But after a flat effort in a blowout by Vermont to conclude their home-stand the women’s basketball team traveled to Boston ... Read More »
After going into halftime down 14 points the UMBC men’s basketball team looked to be completely out of the game, but a 17-7 run over the first nine minutes of the half cut the Terrier lead to just five point. However, a questionable foul on Robbie Jackson sent John Holland to the free throw ... Read More »
It’s not very often that you will see a team give it absolutely everything they have but still not win. But that was the case for UMBC when they lost 62-58 to New Hampshire. UMBC was absolutely desperate for a win and out hustled the Wildcats and fought harder than them all night ... Read More »
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