June 27, 2000

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Among the many lists of preseason All-America selections being distributed this summer for upcoming football and men's basketball seasons, Playboy honors exactly 25 football players and 10 basketball stars. The University of Maryland is the only school in the nation represented on both teams.

Senior tailback LaMont Jordan (Suitland, Md.) represented the Terrapins at the Playboy All-America weekend in Phoenix, Ariz., in May. Senior forward Terence Morris (Frederick, Md.) represents the Terps this weekend at a similar Playboy weekend in Chicago. Both athletes received All-America honors at the close of their junior seasons and both are homegrown local talents from within an hour of Maryland's flagship campus in College Park.

The Maryland football team owned the best rushing offense in the Atlantic Coast Conference last season and was ranked No. 12 nationally behind Jordan's powerful running. Jordan enters his senior campaign in reach of the ACC's all-time rushing record. By duplicating last year's record rushing season (1,632 yards), he will be on pace to end his career as one of the top ten college rushers ever. He returns in 2000 as the nation's leading active rusher and has been a consensus selection this summer on every preseason All-America first team. He was called a top-five candidate for the Heisman Trophy by Street & Smith's college football preview.

Morris, meanwhile, has garnered honorable mention All-America accolades after each of his sophomore and junior years while helping lead the Terps to back-to-back second place finishes in the ACC. The 6-9 talent enters his senior season on Maryland career charts for blocks, steals, 3-point field goals made and attempted, rebounds and scoring. He is a do-everything force at forward who heads a Maryland contingent picked as high as No. 4 in early preseason rankings for the 2000-01 season. With Morris in the starting lineup over the last two seasons, Maryland's 53 wins are the seventh-best total in the country.