Under Armour in Trouble

The history of Under Armour dates back to 1996 when Kevin Plank (Plank), a then 23-year-old former special teams’ captain of the University of Maryland football team, started the apparel business from his grandmother’s basement in Washington.

While playing for the University of Maryland football team, Plank noticed that while he had to change his sweat-soaked T-shirts worn under his jersey, his compression shorts remained dry. Upon graduating, he began the process of creating a solution to this problem and thus decided to make T-shirts using a moisture absorbing synthetic fabric. .