University of New England Athletics

Bloom (Northville, Mich.) is the third UNE men's ice hockey player enshrined, following teammates Trevor Fleurent and Brady Fleurent from 2024. Ice hockey previously existed from 1973-84; through 1979, it was under St. Francis College, which has three players, one coach, and a one-time group of three teams already inducted.

Before graduating in 2020 with a bachelor's degree in medical biology, Bloom was part of teams that combined to go 74-28-10 overall and 41-20-8 in Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) matches during his four seasons. Like Brady Fleurent, Bloom compiled numerous individual accolades during his time, including three American Hockey Coaches Association (AHCA) All-America selections (2nd Team in 2019-20), three All-New England picks, and was twice finalist for the Joe Concannon Award (best American-born player in the region). Additionally, he was a four-time All-CCC honoree, with three of those being 1st Team nods, and, as a senior captain, he was both the CCC Player of the Year and CCC Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Bloom stands atop the Nor'easter career records for goals (75), goals/game (0.68), power-play goals (29), shorthanded goals (7), and games played (110), while ranking second in points (169) and assists (94). On two occasions, he was an NCAA Statistical Champion, sharing the nation's lead in power-play goals (10) as a rookie in 2016-17 -- alongside Trevor Fleurent -- and then topping the country in shorthanded goals (5) in 2018-19, when he netted a program-best 22 goals that season. Bloom's second-highest scoring total (20) came as a first-year, which included a highlight during the regular season at Endicott College, when he won a center-ice faceoff to himself with 0:08 on the clock in overtime, split the defenders, and roofed the game-winner with 3.3 seconds remaining to upend the ranked Gulls. He holds a piece of the program game records for points (6) and assists (4), as well as the CCC postseason standards for the Nor'easters in points (4) and goals (3). Along the way with Bloom, the team captured one league championship (2019), a pair of NCAA bids (2019 quarterfinals, 2018 first round), made two other appearances in the conference final, and secured one regular-season crown (2020). UNE booked its first national ranking in the latter half of 2018, and stayed among the top 15 programs for another 44 polls through 2020 (all but one week).

In 2020, Bloom became UNE's fourth student-athlete recognized by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) on a national level, as part of the Academic All-America® Men's At-Large Second Team. That came on the heels of a third Academic All-District® accolade. He was also UNE's Senior Scholar-Athlete of the Year.