COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Two University of Maryland athletic trainers who had attended to a football player after he contracted heatstroke at a spring practice, and who died two weeks later, are no longer employed there, a university spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
The development marks another rebuke of the university’s Board of Regents, a majority of whom had advocated retaining the trainers, according to several knowledgeable sources who spoke anonymously to describe confidential conversations and proceedings. In a chaotic series of events last week, the university president fired the head football coach in defiance of the board’s public wishes, after which the board’s chairman resigned.