2025-2026 University Credit Union Student-Athletes of the Month
NOVEMBER 2025
Recognizing the outstanding achievements of our University of Southern Maine student-athletes is something we are proud to do. Since January of 2022, Huskies' Athletics and University Credit Union have partnered up to highlight the varied and vital contributions USM student-athletes make in competition, in the classroom and in the community. Whether its big-time performances for their team, or big steps in their academic and career goals, or our student-athletes commitment to Community Service, USM & UCU are ready to celebrate our Student-Athletes of the Month.
Chosen by members of the Athletic Department administration, recipients of this honor successfully embody the Five Pillars of USM Athletics: Academic Excellence, Athletic Achievement, Personal Growth, Professional Development and Service to Community.
During the month of November, the student-athletes chosen have been making their mark on their respective program's early in their Husky careers: men's ice hockey's
Ben Aucoin and women's basketball's
Lucy Wiles
Lucy Wiles | Sophomore | Nursing | Glenburn, Maine
After earning nearly every Rookie of the Year honor available in her first season, sophomore guard
Lucy Wiles has not shown any signs of slowing down for the Huskies' women's basketball team. Averaging 15.5 points, 3.2 assists, and 2.7 rebounds per game, Wiles is shooting 45.0 percent from the field and a team-best 43.5 percent from three-point range. Opening the season with a 24-point performance on 8-for-13 shooting in a 74-58 win over UNE on November 12 for Southern Maine's first win over the Nor'easters since 2021, Wiles closed the month with 18 points, six assists, and three rebounds leading the Huskies to a Costello Cup victory against Saint Joseph's College – ending a nine-game skid to the Monks. With Wiles and the rest of the Huskies off to a 5-1 start, Southern Maine is in the "Also Receiving Votes" category of the Division III National Polls.
Ben Aucoin | Freshman | Finance | Moncton, New Brunswick
Through eight games of his intercollegiate hockey career with the University of Southern Maine Huskies' men's ice hockey program, Aucoin has made an immediate impact with a pair of game-winning goals and 11 points (9 goals, 2 assists), and has registered at least one point in each of the Huskies' four wins this season.
Aucoin made his mark early, in just the second game of his career setting a school record with six goals in a 7-1 win over Saint Anselm College. After his statement game, Aucoin was named both the Little East Conference Player and Rookie of the Week and Aucoin has the honor of being the first-ever receipt of each award in the inaugural season of LEC ice hockey.
WHAT IS THE UNIVERSITY CREDIT UNION/ATHLETIC DIRECTOR STUDENT-ATHLETE OF THE MONTH?
Throughout each academic year as Huskies' Athletics moves from fall to winter to the spring competition, Southern Maine student-athletes are consistently recognized at the state, conference, regional and national level for their outstanding and noteworthy performances on the field of competition.
Academically, Huskies are also known for their superior performances earning All-Academic team honors from a variety of awards bureaus as well as the University. During the 2024-25 academic year, USM student-athletes combined for a department grade point average of 3.2. Each year, Husky student-athletes receive recognition for their athletic, academic and community service activities.
Proudly supporting and emphasizing the Division III student-athlete model, Huskies' Athletics focuses its goals on five key areas for each of its nearly 450 student-athletes: Academic Excellence, Athletic Achievement, Personal Growth, Professional Development and Service to Community.
Many of USM student-athletes play big roles not only on their teams, but also in life - as student employees, mentors, student organization leaders, civic rights activists, residence life assistants, and more. With that in mind, former Director of Athletics
Al Bean partnered with University Credit Union to create a new way to honor and amplify the remarkable contributions of our student-athletes that go far beyond the stat sheet with the UCU Athletic Director Student-Athlete of the Month recognition.
"As a department, Huskies Athletics believes in the development of the overall student-athlete. As soon as they become a Husky, we are investing in their future. The goal for a USM student-athlete is for each and every one to realize their full potential academically, athletically, personally, professional and civically. Our student-athletes are leaders on and off of the field and in the community. With the creation of the UCU Athletic Director Student-Athlete of the Month honor, we are seeking to establish a tangible way to congratulate and encourage the work of student-athletes both inside and outside of the competitive arena."
The UCU Athletic Director Student-Athlete of the Month (one male, one female) will be chosen based upon Huskies' Five Key Pillars: Academic Excellence, Athletic Achievement, Personal Growth, Professional Development and Service to Community. Members of the Huskies' Athletic Administration will nominate and choose those student-athletes to be recognized.
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