Coach Frederick Aura
A year ago while during the middle of a road trip for one of our basketball games, Adrian Brown (who was our starting PG the past two seasons and is now our Graduate Assistant Coach) was the victim of racial profiling by the police. After the hiring of an excellent civil rights attorney, he was advised that his complaint was hopelessly roadblocked since members of that police department banded together to establish reports and provide testimony that would be extremely difficult to prove that had been fabricated. Adrian decided to forego further fruitless effort with respect to that case. Instead early last summer he got actively involved with Achievement Mentoring Program (AMP) in their efforts to work with minority students in high school to improve self-worth and positive attitudes for academic success and preparation for college. Adrian has now become a leader in the local AMP group. He has recruited several of our players as well as other Towson students to be involved with the mentoring program. He’s also gotten me involved in working with small groups of minority youth. I'm pleased that even in some small way I'm able to support Adrian's efforts. Janeka, my wife, has also been able to get a couple on-going medical support internships established at the hospital where she works.
I’m really proud of Adrian’s efforts and how he is helping minority youth through what often are difficult years for them. I can see the positive results he has already helped create with high school students with whom he has worked. His leadership within the program has resulted in the local AMP program becoming much more successful and being able to help a larger group of high school students. It’s exciting that he took a negative occurrence in his life and turned it into positive activities that are helping others.