Winters at the University of Delaware are dark, gray, cold and empty. With the majority of students enjoying a two month hiatus, for those that remain it’s an uneventful month marked with frigid treks to class through a campus stripped of its typical hustle.  However, for Chris Warren, his teammates and their coach of 30 years, the 2011 winter session was not quite as dull.

“It was a day that I could sleep in. I woke up to about a dozen texts from my teammates at about 10am telling me to check my email,” Warren said. “We were blindsided.” Read more →