Terrapin lacrosse player Ryan Young was arrested and charged with DWI on Aug. 2, just four months after teammate Travis Reed was arrested for DUI and marijuana possession.
Young, an attackman who was third on the Terps with 27 points his freshman season, will miss at least two games of his sophomore campaign due to the Student-Athlete Code of Conduct.
“If a student athlete is charged with a DUI or DWI, he is immediately suspended for 10 percent of the schedule,” Senior Associate Athletics Director Kathleen Worthington said. “It doesn’t matter how the case turns out; just putting yourself into a situation to be charged with it automatically triggers the suspension.”
Police stopped Young in his hometown of Manhasset, N.Y., around 2:05 a.m., according to Nassau County police spokesman Michael Toich. He was held overnight and sent to arraignment court.
Young is under 21 years old, so any amount of alcohol in his system while driving is illegal. It was Young’s first offense in the county.
Terps head coach Dave Cottle said that he was on vacation and wanted to get home and review the case’s details before making a comment.
Cottle did say, “It’s obviously a serious infraction and if it is true, it will not be tolerated.”
The Terps’ 2009 schedule has not been released, but in the past two years, the team has opened the season with at least a pair of non-conference games.
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