COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Two University of Maryland athletic trainers who attended to a football player who died after contracting heatstroke at a spring practice are no longer employed there, a university spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
The development marks another rebuke of the University System of Maryland’s Board of Regents, a majority of whom had wanted to retain the trainers, according to several people with knowledge of the situation 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.