O'Donnell and the Terps in the New York Times!
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -The Maryland field hockey team will play host to No. 7 Ohio State (18-4) Friday in the NCAA Semifinals at the Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex. The Terps (21-1) and the Buckeyes are set to take the field at 4:30 p.m., after the first Semifinal game between No. 2 North Carolina and No. 3 Virginia at 2 p.m.
Tickets to Friday's games are $10 for adults and $7 for seniors and students. To buy tickets, or for information on group tickets, please visit the Terrapin Ticket Office online at umterps.com or call 1-800-IM-A-TERP.
FRIDAY SEMIFINAL GAMES PARKING INFORMATION
• Fans attending Friday's games may park in Lot 4i, to the north of Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex, BEGINNING AT 12:00 NOON at no charge.
• Lot 4i is NOT AVAILABLE for field hockey fan parking prior to 12:00 noon. Fans attempting to park on campus prior to 12:00 noon will be subject to receiving parking tickets by the University's Department of Transportation Services (DOTS).
SATURDAY NFHCA ALL STAR GAMES
• Fans attending Saturday's NFHCA All Star games may park in Lot 4i before 2 p.m. at no charge. After 2 p.m., fans may park in Lot 4i for $15, due to the Maryland-Florida State football game.
SUNDAY CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
• Fans attending Sunday's Championship Game may park in all lots surrounding the Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex at no charge. There are no lot restrictions on Sunday.
STREAMING INFORMATION
• Friday's games will be streamed live on the NCAA.com and will not be shown on television.
RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW
• The Terps (21-1) are in the NCAA Semifinals for the 14th time in school history. They have been in the Final Four seven of the last eight years.
• Senior Katie O'Donnell recently earned her 300th career point. She is only the third player in NCAA history to break the 300-point mark.
• There are five international players on Maryland's roster - two from Ireland, two from England and one from Australia. All five will have family members in College Park this weekend.
• Maryland has hosted the NCAA Championships for field hockey just one other time- in 2007. As the No. 2 seed that year, the Terrapins fell to Penn State in the second round and did not play in the Final Four on their home field.
• The Terrapins have won three of the last five NCAA Championships (2005, 2006, 2008). North Carolina won the other two (2007, 2009).
• Maryland's Jemma Buckley has a sister, Elly, that plays for Virginia.
SCOUTING THE BUCKEYES
• The Terrapins own the all-time series over the Buckeyes 5-0. The two teams haven't met since 2007.
• Maryland and Ohio State have never met in the NCAA Tournament.
• This is the Buckeyes' first appearance in the NCAA Semifinals.
• Ohio State head coach Anne Wilkinson and Maryland head coach Missy Meharg played together at Delaware in the mid-1980s.
• Meharg earned All-American honors at Delaware in 1983 and was a two-time East Coast Conference Player of the Year (1983, 1984). Wilkinson earned All-American honors and was the ECC Player of the Year in 1985.
TERPS IN THE NCAA TOURNAMENT
• The Terps have made 23 appearances in the NCAA Tournament, including every year since 1995.
• Maryland's all-time record in the NCAA Tournament is 45-16 with six national titles, five under Meharg.
• Maryland's all-time winning percentage in the Tournament is .738, which is second only to Wake Forest (.773).
• The program's 45 games won is second only to Old Dominion's 47.
• The Terrapins have been to 14 NCAA Semifinals and seven of the last eight.
LAST TIME OUT
• Maryland beat No. 18 UMass 4-2 in the First Round and No. 5 Connecticut 3-1 in the Second Round to advance to the NCAA Semifinals.
• Katie O'Donnell led the Terps with one goal and four assists on the weekend.
• Goals were scored by seven different Terrapins.
RECORD BOOK UPDATE
• Against Connecticut, O'Donnell became third player in NCAA history to break the 300-point mark.
• The only other two players to break 300 points are Marina DiGiacomo (Old Dominion `97-'00) and Maaike Hilbrand (`88-'89, `91-'92). DiGiacomo had 414 and Hilbrand had 372.
• O'Donnell broke the 100-assist mark against Louisville. She now has 108 career assists.
• Only two other players in NCAA history, Jill Reeve (Old Dominion `88-92) and Winnifred Sanders (Old Dominion `87-'90), have broken the 100-assist mark. They have 139 and 129, respectively.
• O'Donnell broke Maryland's career goals record of 85 set last year by former Terp Nicole Muracco. She now has 96, which puts her at No. 2 in the ACC record books. She needs six more to break the ACC record of 101.
• Head coach Missy Meharg became the sixth coach in NCAA Division I history to break the 400 win mark last on Oct. 12 at Michigan.
• Her current record is 411-102-9, which gives her a winning percentage of .796, which is second among all NCAA Division I active coaches. Old Dominion's Beth Anders has a percentage of .802
HOME SWEET HOME
• The Terps haven't lost a game at the Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex since Oct. 11, 2008 when Duke beat Maryland 3-2.
• Maryland is 93-9 all-time in the Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex.
• The Terrapins are 15-1 in NCAA Tournament games at the Compex since it opened in 2003.
ACC POSTSEASON HONORS
• Katie O'Donnell was named the ACC's Offensive Player of the Year for the fourth consecutive year. Only two other athletes, in any sport, have won ACC Player of the Year all four years - Clemson's Clyde Browne in men's soccer (`72-'75) and Duke's Amanda Blumenherst in women's golf (`06-'09).
• Missy Meharg was named Coach of the Year for the second straight year and sixth time in her career.
• Jill Witmer was named ACC Freshman of the Year and is the first Terp to be honored since Nicole Muracco in 2006.
• Jemma Buckley, Megan Frazer and Harriet Tibble were named to the All-ACC Team. All are first time honorees.
• O'Donnell was named Tournament MVP after Sunday's championship game for the second straight year. Lauren Barr, Witmer and Buckley were named to the All-Tournament team.
PACK THE HOUSE
• The Terrapins led the ACC in attendance for the fourth straight year.
• Maryland averaged almost 500 fans a game in College Park. Over 5700 fans came out to see the Terps in College Park this year.
• Against UNC, 1,617 fans came out to see the headlining matchup. It is the fourth-largest regular season crowd in NCAA history.
• The Terps own four of the top ten NCAA single-game crowds, including postseason and regular season games.
GLOBAL TERPS
• Five Terrapins hail from different countries from around the world.
• Junior Jemma Buckley comes to Maryland from Australia, where she was on the Australian U-21 team and played at University of West Australia.
• Sophomore Megan Frazer and junior Lauren Barr both hail from Ireland. Frazer competes on the Irish Senior National team, while Barr was named the Coleraine/Ballymoney Sportswoman of the Year in 2005, 2006 and 2007.
• Sophomore Harriet Tibble and freshman Hayley Turner are from England - Tibble from Surrey and Turner from Fernhill Heath. Tibble was a member of England's U-18 squad from 2008-2009, and Turner played on the team from 2008-2010.
• All five will have family members in attendance this weekend.
