Nov. 22, 2011

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COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Junior Megan Frazer of the 2011 national champion Maryland field hockey team (19-4) was named the Mid Atlantic Region Player of the Year the National Field Hockey Coaches' Association announced Tuesday.

Frazer was named an NFHCA First Team All-American Monday for the second time in her career. She was also named a First Team All-American by womensfieldhockey.com.

A team co-captain, the junior recorded 9 goals and 4 assists for 22 points in 2011, bringing her career totals to 38 goals and 11 assists for 87 points. Frazer was selected to the 2011 All-ACC First Team as well as to the 2011 NCAA All-Tournament Team.

In the Terrapin's NCAA Tournament run, she tallied two goals. She scored in the 44th minute of the Terps' first round game vs. Iowa to make the score 3-1. Maryland would go on to win 4-2. In Maryland's semifinal game vs. No. 2 Old Dominion, she notched the Terps' second goal. In the 18th minute, she dribble into the circle and cracked a hard shot for a 2-0 Maryland lead. The Terps went on to win that game 4-0.

Along with Frazer, three other Terrapins were named NFHCA All-Americans Monday. Jemma Buckley and Jill Witmer were named to the First Team with Frazer, and Harriet Tibble earned Second Team honors.

Buckley and Frazer were named to womensfieldhockey.com's First Team, while Witmer and sophomore Ali McEvoy made the Second Team. Freshmen Maxine Fluharty and Katie Gerzabek were named to the All-Rookie Squad.

In Sunday's NCAA title game, Maryland came back from a two-goal deficit with less than four minutes remaining in regulation to top No. 1 North Carolina (23-2) in overtime for its eighth national title and fifth in seven years.

Since the NCAA began seeding the top four teams in the Tournament in 2002, the Terps are the first unseeded team to win a title. They beat the top three teams (Syracuse, Old Dominion, North Carolina) in order, en route to their repeat crown.

This marked the Terps' 11th appearance in the NCAA Finals and fifth time Maryland and North Carolina had met in the NCAA title game, including the last three straight years.