TOWSON, Md. – Towson University Athletics is developing a truly unique leadership training program that involves a partnership with a special forces military-type training organization out of Washington, D.C. called GORUCK as well as the  Towson University Office of Veterans Affairs. 

Known as The GORUCK Challenge, the program will kick off on Tuesday, July 17 at 9:00 p.m. when Coach Rob Ambrose and the Tiger football coaching staff takes on the challenge along with members of the veterans affairs office and Director of Athletics Mike Waddell.

The GORUCK Challenge will be held around the University campus and will involve 10-12 hours of mini-challenges and tasks that the team must work together to overcome.

Inspired by the most elite training offered to Special Forces soldiers and led by Green Berets, the GORUCK Challenge is a team event, not a race. Challenge cadre build each class into a team through collective conditions of mental and physical exhaustion. Classes are small, camaraderie is high, smiles are plentiful, and teamwork is paramount.

The route and distance of the challenge are unknown to participants and GORUCK Challenges can last longer and go on for greater distances if the team needs it in order to fully become a team.

Towson University will produce a video of The GORUCK Challenge along with interviews with some of the participants and potentially the Cadre (facilitator), Lou Lepsch, to be broadcast on TowsonTigers.com, posted to YouTube, and shared with the University's partners at GORUCK.