Ira "Will" Marshall, III, Receives Green Terror Sports Hall of Fame Award from McDaniel College

WESTMINSTER, MD (11/04/2011)(readMedia)-- Ira "Will" Marshall, III, of Baltimore receives the Green Terror Sports Hall of Fame award from McDaniel College. He received a bachelor's degree in exercise science and physical education with minors in sports coaching and education from McDaniel College in 1998 and master's degree in exercise science in 2005.

Presented annually during McDaniel's Homecoming, the Green Terror Sports Hall of Fame award is presented to a graduate and former athlete who has performed outstandingly as an undergraduate athlete and who has contributed to society since leaving the college.

Will Marshall is the all-time leading scorer for McDaniel's men's basketball team with 1,620 career points and is ranked first in free throws made, in free throws attempted and in games started.

Named captain of the team in both his junior and senior years, he is three-time team MVP and was named to the All-Centennial Conference team as a sophomore, junior and senior. He led the conference in scoring his senior year, averaging 20.9 points per game. Marshall was awarded the John Alexander Medal (for excellence in athletics) and received the Art Press Award in both 1997 and 1998. After college, he played for Team Champion basketball team. He organized and led a basketball summer league for high school students in Baltimore County, and serves as an umpire for Allied Softball.

He has coached the Holabird Middle School, Dundalk, Md., girl's basketball team and the Sparrows Point High School, Edgemere, Md., boy's varsity team. Currently a physical education teacher at Patapsco High School & Center for the Arts, Dundalk, Md., he coaches boy's varsity basketball at the school.

For more information about McDaniel College, visit www.mcdaniel.edu.

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McDaniel College, recognized nationally among "40 Colleges that Change Lives" and U.S. News top-tier liberal arts colleges, is a four-year private college of the liberal arts and sciences offering more than 60 undergraduate programs of study, including dual and student-designed majors, plus 20 highly regarded graduate programs. Its hallmark faculty-student collaborations in research, teaching and mentoring plus hundreds of leadership and service opportunities enrich a lively learning experience that is rooted in a personalized interdisciplinary and global curriculum. Innovative January courses take students to points all over the world while McDaniel's degree-granting European campus offers a unique opportunity for international study at the only American university in Budapest, Hungary. A diverse and close-knit community of 1,600 undergraduates and 1,560 part-time graduate students, McDaniel also boasts a spectacular 160-acre hilltop campus in Westminster, Md., an hour or less from Baltimore, D.C., the Chesapeake Bay, an Amtrak station and BWI international airport.