Talented Terps

Let’s face it; the University of Maryland is littered with thousands of ultra-talented students.
Forget about our sport celebs, the Greivis Vasquezs and Chris Turners who take over our televisions and our lives for the majority of our school year. I’m talking talented students who will be making millions for something other than a good arm or a great jump-shot.

First, lets look at the ghost of talented UMD students past. Everyone knows Jim Henson, after all, we do have a bench with his statue along with the very famous Kermit the Frog. Did I mention Henson created Kermit, along with the rest of The Muppets after designing his own major at UMD?

Then we have the creator of all things sportswear, from college jerseys to Olympic ski uniforms. I’m talking Under Armour, created by UMD graduate, Kevin Plank. Now, Plank’s company creates some of the top sports gear, competing for logo space on jerseys against well-known and long existing companies like Nike and Adidas.

In the ranks of celebrity alumni we have television news anchor Connie Chung, Carl Bernstein (who never actually graduated), Larry David, writer and producer of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "Seinfeld," a number of Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winners, and countless CEO’s and founders of huge corporations including Google and Walt Disney Productions.

Now we have a fresh batch of talent, the students who have started their own businesses while attending Maryland and who have graced the pages of Unwind! Enterprise.

There was Matt Polley who started a lawn mowing business, Matt’s Lawn Care. Then we have Jimmy Lyons, who started FeedtheTurtle.com despite heavy competition from popular CampusFood. And Johnny Graham who started his own record label on our campus.

At a school that offers business dreamers loans through the Hillman Project, a technology boot-camp for young entrepreneurs and one of the top business schools in the country, it’s hard not to bring in some of the best and the brightest.

So what does the ghost of talented UMD student future have in mind? Stay tuned to Unwind's Enterprise section to find out.