In a move that was expected from the day it was announced he was taking a six-month “professional development sabbatical,” Maryland athletic director Kevin Anderson resigned, the school announced Friday afternoon.
In a statement released by the athletic department, university president Wallace Loh said Anderson “led significant initiatives that enhanced the student-athletes’ academic success, personal development and career development.”
A national search for a new athletic director will begin in the “coming weeks,” the school announced.
Anderson replaced Debbie Yow late in the summer of 2010, inheriting a financially strapped athletic department that ultimately led to the elimination of seven sports as well as the university’s decision in 2012 to join the Big Ten the following year.