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title: Flag Suit Guy’s Colorful Story
date: 2022-01-27T05:30:00-05:00
author: University of Maryland
canonical_url: "https://today.umd.edu/flag-suit-guys-colorful-story"
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# Flag Suit Guy’s Colorful Story

*January 27, 2022* — by [Matt Gilpin ’19](/author/matt-gilpin)


> Student Styles in State Colors at Terps Games

*Flag Guy Portrait 1920x1080 — Thomas Canary, grad student in the Robert H. Smith School of Business, is building a reputation as "Flag Suit Guy," wearing his colorful getup to support Maryland teams from football to field hockey and more.*

Attendees at Maryland sporting events always have plenty of stars to watch on the playing field or court, but since Fall 2021, when fans reemerged from the pandemic lockdown, there’s been a colorful new one rising in the stands.

Thomas Canary, a graduate student who finished his B.S. in marketing in December, wears his Maryland pride in the form of a flashy yellow, red, black and white suit adorned with a Maryland flag pattern. It’s a wardrobe decision that has earned him the nickname “Flag Suit Guy” and could propel him into the ranks of campus student legends like the mellow “Pan Flute Guy” or the palm-slapping, BMX bike-riding “High Five Guy.”

Canary, a native of nearby Rockville, said he’s always been a big sports guy.

“I played a lot of sports growing up, and then I went to St. John's College High School in D.C.,” Canary said. “It's pretty easy to get into it when you're going to school with guys like Anthony Cowan Jr. and Rakim Jarrett. So I knew coming into Maryland I was just going to embrace it.”


*Flag Suit Guy poses next to TERPS sign*




**Topics:** [Athletics](https://today.umd.edu/tags/athletics)



**Units:** [Department of Intercollegiate Athletics](https://today.umd.edu/topic/department-intercollegiate-athletics), [Robert H. Smith School of Business](https://today.umd.edu/topic/robert-h-smith-school-business)