Sebastian Elney arrived in College Park in the summer of 2015 with sky high expectations as part of one of the top recruiting classes in the country.
Elney, a Boca Raton, Florida native who spent his senior year with the Philadelphia Union Academy and graduated from YSC Academy, was one of seven youth national team players in a class head coach Sasho Cirovski called “the biggest and deepest class in the history of Maryland soccer” at the time.
The Terps have seen plenty of success with that group, even as highly touted MLS academy players like Eryk Williamson, Jorge Calix and Diego Silva have departed, but if it’s possible to be underrated or underappreciated as a team that’s won 52 games over that span, that’s been the story of the Terps this season.