The Maryland men’s soccer team was in the middle of an offensive drill during a practice this spring when head coach Sasho Cirovski asked rising senior George Campbell to step in at right back.
The team lost three of its starting defenders in the offseason—Alex Crognale, Suli Dainkeh and Chris Odoi-Atsem—so naturally, there were holes that needed to be filled in their absences.
Cirovski and his staff turned to Campbell, one of the program’s three-year veterans who arrived at College Park as an All-American high school forward and midfielder coming off Maryland’s Gatorade Player of the Year award.