Alvin Hill's mother was not surprised when the senior cornerback told her over the summer about one of the courses he planned to take this fall at Maryland.
His 19-year-old sister, Tiffany, had a different reaction.
"I told my mom and she said, 'That's my Alvin,' " Hill recalled recently. "She's used to me doing things out of the ordinary. She wasn't shocked. But my little sister was like: 'Ballet? What are you doing?' "
For 75 minutes every Tuesday and Thursday morning, Hill attends Collette Krogol's Ballet I class (DANC228) in a dance studio at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.