On July 19, UMBC’s men’s track and field standout Adam Grossman was named the 2004-05 Scholar Athlete for indoor track and field and shared the honor for outdoor track and field, making him a winner for two consecutive years in both the scholar athlete category for indoor and outdoor men’s track and field.

A committee of athletics administrators and NCAA Faculty Athletics Representatives chose an honoree in each of the conference's 22 championship sports. Grossman shared the outdoor accolades with Albany’s Andy Allstadt.

The scholar-athletes were selected from the more than 3,500 student-athletes who competed at America East institutions in 2004-05. Each honoree was a starter or prominent reserve and carries a minimum cumulative grade-point average of 3.20.

Grossman holds a 3.70 GPA following his junior year and won gold in four conference championship events this past season. He broke the conference record in the 200m outdoor event in 21.32 seconds as part of three first place medals at the outdoor championships. Grossman went on to win the 200m dash in 10.64 seconds and anchor the 4x100m dash team the won in 41.68 seconds. During the indoor track and field championships he successfully defended his 55m dash championships from the previous year.

An environmental sciences major, Grossman excels in the classroom as well. Through six semesters, Grossman holds two 4.0 semesters, four dean’s list (3.5 GPA or greater) semesters and five semester (3.0 GPA or greater) accolades.

He was selected as the UMBC Male Scholar Athlete of the Year for 2005 and selected to the 2005 CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Men’s Track & Field/Cross Country University All-District II team, becoming the only junior out of 10 to earn the accolades.