After leaving Maryland for grad school at the University of Louisville and a quick stint as a student advisor at the University of Central Florida, Criss once again found herself drawn to her alma mater. Criss returned to work as the football counselor for Coach Ralph Friedgen’s players. Criss’s job took on a wide range of responsibilities that often left her managing multiple players’ lives at once.
“You’re not sitting there picking out classes,” Criss remarked, “You’re helping them manage their life and kind of navigate through this whole student-athlete experience.” Criss helped the student-athletes with their schedules, time management, and study habits. She also was in charge of the community service for the football team, coordinating photo ops and charity games.
Then, after five years, Criss decided to leave the program. “I always get to a point where I want to do more like I want to be better so that my students can be better, especially when we’re talking about Maryland and Maryland student-athletes,” she explained, “so I actually left athletics.”
Instead of leaving Maryland for good, Criss once again became a Terrapin pioneer, taking the helm as the first-ever director of Maryland’s freshman connection program. Criss helped take the program from a small 300 students to the thousand-student program it is today.
However, Criss couldn’t escape her love of athletics for long, and after a year-long stint as freshman connection director, she returned as an advisor in 2007, this time for the basketball program under Gary Williams. After nine years working under Williams, Criss completed her work at the University of Maryland, this time for good (or at the very least, for now). She wants no question about it, though: her Maryland pride is unmatched.
“There’s no better place,” Criss said, “I will argue anybody down over my school. We have the best flag in the country, we have some of the best traditions in the country… I will argue everyone to death about how great Maryland is.”
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