A three-sport athlete, Don Sudbrink was an All-Southern Conference soccer goalie, a Mason-Dixon Conference wrestling champion and a high scoring midfielder on the first men’s lacrosse team. He was selected Towson’s Athlete of the Year for 1958-59.
Despite missing four soccer games of his senior year because of an injury, he was a stellar goalkeeper and helped Towson to a 24-11-5 record over this career. In his final year he was one of two Towson players to be named to the All-South Atlantic Region Team.
As a wrestler Sudbrink was dominating on the mats. He lost only one dual meet match his entire career, and that was a 2-3 decision. In 1959 he earned an elusive Mason-Conference championship by winning the 147lb. title. He went on that year to compete in the NAIA Tournament in DeKalb, Ill.
Sudbrink was a midfielder on Towson’s first men’s lacrosse team and shared scoring honors with two other teammates. He scored one of the first goals in the program’s history when he helped Towson top Brown Lacrosse Club 7-4 in the first game ever played on April 7, 1959.
A graduate of Dundalk High School, Sudbrink began his career in education at Bel Air Junior High School as a science and physical education teacher. He later earned a master’s degree in psychology from the University of Maryland. He coached high school wrestling at Bel Air and the John Carroll School. In 1973 he was named principal of John Carroll after three years on the staff as a psychology teacher, director of pupil personnel services and director of admissions. He retired in 1991. He passed away several years later at the age of 58.
