Sept. 11, 2003

By Mike Preston
The Sun

IT'S TIME FOR his peers, friends and former players to give back to Dick Edell, the former "Big Man" on the University of Maryland campus.

For nearly two decades, Edell, the former Terps lacrosse coach, gave more than he received. But on Sept. 21, Edell and his daughter, Krissy, in conjunction with the University of Maryland Alumni Association, are holding a 3-mile walk-a-thon on the campus to raise money to help find a cure for inclusion body myositis, a disease that gradually destroys muscle fiber and tissue and incapacitates its victims' arms and legs.

Edell has the disease, which forced him into early retirement in 2001. There is no cure. In the early stages, those with the disease have problems getting into and out of chairs, walking up and down steps and standing for long periods. It eventually forces a person into a wheelchair and later to become bedridden.

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The enter the walk-a-thon or to make a contribution check out the Muscling Out Myositis page on umterps.com by clicking below

Muscling Out Myositis