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Sherrard Harrington (born June 11, 1992) is a former American football defensive back for the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the former CEO of Marvel Capital Group, an investment asset management company.

Early years
Harrington was born in Washington, D.C.. Growing up in D.C., he attended Howard D. Woodson. As a senior, he earned Super Prep All-Mid-Atlantic honors, as the publication ranked him as the No. 36 player in the region and the seventh best cornerback and 11th best overall player from the Washington D.C. area. He was also selected as a first-team Pigskin All-Metro team member at cornerback and was the first-team All-Metro Return Specialist of the Year. ESPN ranked him as the No. 40 cornerback and the No. 7 player from Washington D.C. and was the second cornerback on that list.

As a standout defensive back in high school, Sherrard Harrington received 15 scholarship offers to play Division I college football. As a senior, he was in on 55 tackles, five for losses including two quarterback sacks. He had three interceptions, returning two for touchdowns, and 13 passes broken up. He averaged around 20 yards per punt return, including two for touchdowns, one that covered 93 yards. As a junior, he had 30 tackles and 16 pass break-ups with four interceptions, three returned for scores. On offense as a wide receiver, he had 19 receptions for 305 yards and six touchdowns and he returned punts on special teams. His sophomore season, playing primarily on offense, he had 22 receptions for 408 yards and two touchdowns. His top and most memorable game came his senior year: in a 44-12 win over Dunbar for the city championship, he was in on 10 tackles, two for losses with one sack, and had two pass break-ups and what he termed three "monster hits." In a 33-18 loss at Glen Mills in Pennsylvania, he had 12 tackles, one for a loss, and had two pass break-ups in the game where he returned the punt 93 yards for a TD. His best offensive game came his junior year in a 39-7 win over Roosevelt when he caught five passes for 120 yards and two touchdowns. Under coach Greg Fuller, Howard D. Woodson compiled a 29-10 record his three years there (10-3 as a senior, 9-4 as a junior, 10-3 as a sophomore) and won the Washington D.C. City Championship all three years.

College career
While attending the University of Colorado, Harrington suffered a hip fracture that wiped out his freshman year in 2011. A broken ankle and torn meniscus took out his second. He reinjured the hip this spring, setting the stage for a difficult meeting with then-CU athletic director Mike Bohn and new head coach Mike MacIntyre. He currently majors in Communication and is also interested in obtaining his Entrepreneur Certificate in the Leeds School of Business. He was a member of the National Honor Society in high school, as he maintained above a 3.5 grade point average.

Marvel Capital Group
Harrington was the CEO of Marvel Capital Group, an investment asset management company he co-founded with fellow CU student Olivia Taylor. Backed by private investors who provided Marvel with an initial $500,000 investment. , Marvel owned a few of the rental properties in Boulder and rented out to current CU students.