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	#31 - Brian Johnson
	Class: Junior Height/Weight: 6-1, 190     Hometown: Baltimore, MD Position: M/A     High School: Eastern Tech

Visual & Performing Arts Major

Heady, versatile player who can give the Retrievers quality minutes at either attack or midfield…earned Award for Academic Excellence at Varsity Athletic Awards picnic last spring.

AT UMBC: Saw action in 12 games in his (red-shirt) sophomore season…notched his lone point of the year, an assist, in the season finale at Ohio State…led UMBC with three goals and two assists in the 2002 exhibition game vs. Keio University (Japan)...red-shirted the previous spring after undergoing knee surgery in the fall of 2001...earned a great deal of action as a freshman in 2001, playing in ten games and starting five on attack...scored his first career goal vs. U. Mass and added an assist...also had helpers the next two games vs. Carolina and Towson.

BACKGROUND: An outstanding athlete who possesses excellent size and a great feel for the game...a member of the 1999 Bay State Team...suffered a torn ACL prior to his senior season at Eastern Tech...six of his Maverick teammates have gone on to compete at the Division I level...Brian’s father, Larry, lettered in lacrosse at Drexel, and his brother, Doug, competed at Essex CC...chose UMBC because it “had my major (Visual Arts/Digital Imaging), I liked the campus and it had the strongest lacrosse program”...a member of the National Honor Society while at Eastern Tech...also earned varsity letters in golf and basketball...plays the drums in a band called “Exempt”..majoring in Visual and Performing Arts....also enjoys weight lifting...son of Susan and Larry Johnson...born February 23, 1982.