DOMONIQUE FOXWORTH ’04 COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER A scholar, athlete and philanthropist, resource for former players. Domonique Foxworth has become as wellAfter retirement, Foxworth remained known for his actions off the field as his an advocate for his fellow athletes and was achievements on it during a college and elected by his peers to serve as president professional football career. of the NFLPA in 2012, holding the office Foxworth graduated in 2004 from for two years. In January, he became chief Maryland with a degree in American studies operating officer of the National Basketball and was a standout cornerback for the Terps Players Association, running the day-to-day football team, twice receiving All-Atlantic operations of the union. Coast Conference honors. He was drafted by Foxworth has also made a substantial the Denver Broncos in 2005 and played for impact on his alma mater. He and his wife, seven years in the National Football League Ashley Manning Foxworth ’06, made a gift to with the Broncos, Atlanta Falcons and his the College of Arts and Humanities to launch hometown Baltimore Ravens. the Foxworth Creative Enterprise Grants He was nominated for the 2007 Walter initiative. It supports community-based arts Payton NFL Man of the Year award for and humanities courses that encourage community work such as serving as innovation and new solutions for society’s spokesman for College in Colorado, a most pressing issues. nonprofit devoted to increasing enrollment Foxworth was born in Oxford, England, and improving the academic success of lowand relocated to Maryland when he was income students; raising money to build a teen in kindergarten. He attended high school center in the name of a slain teammate; and and played football at Western Tech in penning a weekly column for The Denver Post. Catonsville, Md. The columns were later published as a book, He was Maryland Student Athlete of the with proceeds benefitting a Denver nonprofit. Year in 2005, received the inaugural Tim Foxworth was elected to the National Wheatley Award from The Baltimore Sun Football League Players Association (NFLPA) in 2010 and was named a Distinguished as a player representative in 2007. He had Alumnus by the College of Arts and a crucial role in collective bargaining Humanities in 2012. Foxworth, who just negotiations in 2011 and helped secure a completed an MBA at Harvard Business longer off-season, the elimination of “two-aSchool, lives in Washington, D.C., with his day” practices and the creation of a pension wife and two children, Avery and Declan.
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