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2005-06: Named to the America East All-Defensive Team... Named to the America East All-Academic Team... Named a UMaine Scholar-Athlete Award winner and also named to the America East Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll... One of just three players to start all 28 games... Led America East and ranked 21st in the nation in blocked shots, averaging 2.6 per game... Ranked sixth in America East in rebounding, averaging 6.2 per game.... Ranks fifth on Maine's all-time blocks list with 103 and fifth on the single season leaders list with 72 in 05-06... Scored a career-high 16 points in Maine's game against Binghamton (1/12) where he was 8-of-10 from the floor... Scored 11 points in the season-opener at Williams & Mary (11/18)... Recorded a career-high 12 rebounds at Boston University (1/29)... Also blocked six shots in the game... Recorded his first career double-double with 10 points and 11 rebounds against Stony Brook (1/25)... Blocked a career-high seven shots at Robert Morris (11/28)... Blocked at least one shot in 26-of-28 games... blocked three or more shots in 13 games... Played in 10 Finnish National team games, including several in the summer of 2006, for coaches Ari Tammivaara and Henrik Dettmann. 2004-05: Played for the Finnish National Team in the World University Games in the summer of 2005... His team finished 12th out of 30 teams.. His 1.6 blocks per game ranked sixth in the tournament... Averaged 6.4 points per game and 3.9 rebounds per game... Named a UMaine Scholar-Athlete Award winner... Saw action in 26 games for the Black Bears... Scored a then career-high 11 point in Maine's 90-53 win over UMaine Farmington (12/30)... Scored eight points and tied his then career high with seven rebounds against Albany (1/16)... Had three blocks on three different occasions... Played a career-high 21 minutes in Maine's 70-65 win at New Hampshire (1/13)... Played 12 minutes against Northeastern in the America East semifinals where he was 1-for-1 from the floor and pulled down four rebounds... Named to the America East Academic Honor Roll. 2003-04: Named a UMaine Academic "Rising Star" after posting better than a 3.0 GPA in the fall semester of his freshman year... Saw action in 13 games... Scored at least one point in 11 of the 13 games that he played in... Shot 46.4 percent from the floor... Averaged 2.8 points per game and 2.2 rebounds per game... He had eight blocks on the season... Had a perfect shooting percentage from the floor in five games... Scored a then career-high eight points against New England (11/28)... Also blocked a season-high three shots in that game... Played a season-high 17 minutes against the University of New England (11/28) and Binghamton (2/8)... Played 14 minutes against Vermont in the America East Championship game (3/13) where he went 2-for-2 from the floor and 2-for-3 from the free throw line... Also recorded a career-high two steals in the game... Grabbed a career-high seven rebounds against Binghamton (2/8). BEFORE MAINE: Came to Maine from the Finnish League, where he played for head coach Timo Hakamaa and was named the League's Rookie of the Year for the 2002-03 season... Averaged 7.4 points and 4.7 rebounds per contest for Team Componenta, a Finnish club team... Upped his scoring average to 17.3 and rebounds to 12.7 per game in the 2002-03 Finnish Under-22 League... Competed on the Junior National Team in both basketball and volleyball. PERSONAL: Born April 4, 1983... A marketing and International business major... Son of Helena and Veli-Jussi Ahvenniemi. |
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