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Sept. 1, 2011
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -
The gymnastics team arrived in black T-shirts. Baseball hustled from its team meeting in gold, while track and cross country were sporting red. A number of other Terrapins arrived in white.
But when more than 600 University of Maryland student-athletes sat together in the top rows of Section 15 at Capital One Field at Byrd Stadium on Wednesday night, the group looked like a montage of the four colors of the Maryland state flag.
They looked like a bunch of Maryland Terrapins fired up about the upcoming season.
At Wednesday's Student-Athlete Welcome, the Terrapins heard from President Wallace Loh, director of athletics Kevin Anderson and from some of their peers.
The biggest highlight may have been for Col. Gregory Gadson, the director of the U.S. Army Wounded Warrior Program. Severely injured himself by an improvised explosive device in Iraq in 2007, Gadson talked to the Terps about the tremendous opportunities the student-athletes have. He reminded them they would face challenges through the year and throughout life, but they will rise through them and achieve.
Maryland head football coach Randy Edsall presented Gadson, who received two standing ovations from the student-athletes, with a signed ball, a Terps jacket and football season tickets.
The evening ended with the Maryland Spirit Squad leading the student-athletes in singing "Maryland Victory."
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