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Plank got the idea for Under Armour after eight of his football teammates at the University of Maryland landed in the hospital with heat exhaustion over a weekend of practice sessions in August 1995. Plank, a senior running back and business major, managed to avoid collapse but was bothered by his soggy cotton undershirt. The thing bunched and chafed under his pads, and when soaked with sweat, it added to the load on his back. "Being short and slow," he says, "I was looking for every ounce I could spare...
...graduation neared, Plank, then 23, decided to explore the product niche he had identified. In March 1996, he bought some stretchy lingerie material at a fabric store and had a tailor make up samples of athletic undershirts. He handed them out to fellow members of the Maryland football squad, who found them comfortable and edgy looking--and clamored for more. That told Plank he was onto something. His older brother Bill, an architect, contributed the macho name Under Armour, and an artist friend designed a sleekly minimalist logo. Working out of the basement of a house in Georgetown...
Before long, Wood was a partner and vice president for sales at Under Armour. Kip Fulks, a former all-American lacrosse player at Maryland, tried on a shirt, then signed on as a partner and vice president for production. "It was like nothing I had worn before," says Fulks. "I knew it was going somewhere...
...Washington Post article “Survey Finds Black Voters Significantly Less Democratic,” Darryl Forrester writes that “African American leaders are becoming less likely to identify themselves as Democrats.” When Republican Mark Erlich chose a black running mate in the Maryland gubernatorial race, the New York Times described the decision as a “checkmate...
...Rogus has been a catch-and-shoot rifleman who has made his mark beyond the arc. His spot-up jumper is one of the most accurate on the team and was enough to attract interest from other Ivy schools, including Princeton, during his senior year of high school in Maryland...