Sept. 1, 2011

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COLLEGE PARK, MD. - The No. 3 Maryland Terrapin women's soccer team plays two this weekend beginning with the first half of a women's-men's soccer doubleheader on Friday at Ludwig Field. The Terps host Saint Louis at 4 p.m., while the No. 4 Maryland men's team will face Stanford at 7:30. The women's team will then hit the road for its first true road game of the season when it heads to Cornell on Sunday. That match is slated for a 1 p.m. start.

Tickets and Game Promotions
• Click here for ticket information for all 2011 Maryland women's soccer home games.

• Click here for a complete list of game promotions for this season.

Parking Information
General Information: After 4 p.m. on weekdays and on weekends, there is no charge for parking in Lots Z1 or 1b or in Regents Drive Garage. Lots R2 and R3 are limited to vehicles displaying current valid permits for the respective lots at all times.

Weekdays Before 4 p.m.: Fans arriving on campus before 4 p.m. on weekdays should park in Union Lane Garage (located between Cole Field House and Stamp Student Union). Rates are $2.00 per hour ($10.00 per day maximum). The garage may only be accessed via Campus Drive and Union Lane, at the top level of the garage. The exit lanes are located at the bottom level of the garage. If the Union Lane Garage is unavailable, fans should park in the Stadium Drive Garage located behind Capital One Field at Byrd Stadium. Regulations at the Stadium Drive Garage are similar to those at Union Lane Garage. Rates at Stadium Drive Garage are $2 per hour ($10 per day maximum). Stadium Drive Garage is open Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to midnight. The Stadium Drive Garage is closed on weekends.

Weekdays After 4 p.m.: Fans arriving on campus after 4 p.m. on weekdays can park free in Lot Z or Lot 1, both of which are located between Cole Field House and Ludwig Field, or in Regents Drive Garage, which is located on Regents Drive between Stadium Drive and Field House Drive.

Event Multimedia
• Fans will be able to follow all of the action on umterps.com via Gametracker.

• Maryland's student-run radio station, WMUC, will also be broadcasting the match at WMUCsports.com.

Scouting The Terps
• Early in its 2011 season Maryland is 3-0-1 and is ranked No. 3 in the latest Soccer America Top 25 and NSCAA poll and. The Terrapins are coming off one of the best seasons in their history with an 18-2-3 record, a No. 10 ranking in the final NSCAA poll and earning the program's first-ever No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament.

• The Terps got their 2011 season off to a good start with a 1-0 win over No. 22 Minnesota (recap | stats) on Aug. 19. Danielle Hubka scored the game's lone goal in the 20th minute when she finished a through ball from Becky Kaplan. Yewande Balogun was solid in net and recorded three saves, but the biggest save of the game came from Kristen McAfee, who cleared a Golden Gopher shot away from the net just before it crossed the goal line in the 88th minute.

• Maryland followed that up with a 9-0 drubbing at Loyola (recap | stats) on Aug. 22. Kaplan scored three goals - all in 1-v-1 situations with the Greyhound keeper - to become the first Terp since 2000 to record a hat trick. Senior Ashley Grove had two goals and three assists, which tied the program record for single-game assists. Junior Olivia Wagner had two goals and an assist, while senior Jasmyne Spencer added two assists. Freshman Alex Doody had a goal and an assist to record her first collegiate points.

• The showdown with No. 1 Stanford lived up to its billing as the two top five teams battled to a 0-0 tie (recap | stats) on Aug. 26. The match was as even as could be. The Cardinal had a slight lead in shots, 19-17, but the Terps had eight corner kick opportunities to Stanford's six. Stanford controlled the first half, out-shooting Maryland 10-2, but Yewande Balogun made five of her 11 saves in the opening 45 minutes to keep the Terps in the match.The second half was a different story as it was Maryland controling the flow of the game and earning an 11-5 shot advantage.

• After being delayed a day due to the effects of Hurricane Irene, the Terps topped Navy, 3-0 (recap | stats), on Aug. 29. Hayley Brock led the way with four points on a goal and two assists. Olivia Wagner and Alex Doody also scored, while Lydia Hastings, Kristen Schmidbauer and Annesia Faulkner tallied assists. Yewande Balogun only needed to record two saves to register her third shutout of the season. However, for the Terps it was the fourth shutout of the season, which set a school record for most consecutive shutouts to begin a year.

Scouting The Billikens
• St. Louis is 1-2-0 so far in 2011 after posting a 4-9-6 record last season.

• Saint Louis opened its 2011 season with a 4-0 home shutout of Evansville. But since then, the Billikens have been out-scored 8-0 in losses to Marquette and Wisconsin-Milwaukee at the Milwaukee Cup.

• Sophomore forward Jenny Humbert leads Saint Louis with two goals, while junior goalkeeper Katie Walsh has logged all 270 minutes for the Billikens.

• The No. 3 Terps will be the higest-ranked opponent ever for Saint Louis. The Billikens' previous top-ranked opponent was No. 5 Santa Clara in 2005.

Scouting The Big Red
• Cornell opens its 2011 season on Friday vs. Fordham in New York, N.Y. The Big Red will return to Ithaca, N.Y., to host Maryland in their home opener on Sunday at 11 a.m.

• Cornell finished the 2010 season with a 6-8-1 overall record and was 1-5-1 in Ivy League play.

Shutout Success
• Through four games in 2011 the Terrapins have not allowed an opposing goal in 380 minutes. The four shutouts mark the first time in the program's 25-year history that Maryland has opened a season with four clean sheets.

• The streak of four shutouts is the second longest streak all-time at Maryland. Only the 1996 team had a better streak, shutting out five opponents from Sept. 22 through Oct. 1.

Head Coach Brian Pensky
• Brian Pensky is in his seventh season as the head coach of the Maryland women's soccer program. After helping lead the Terrapin men's program to three-straight appearances in the College Cup, Pensky took over the women's soccer program prior to the 2005 season. He has steadily built the program back to prominence and took it to its first NCAA Tournament berth since 2004 last season. Pensky owns an overall head coaching record of 58-47-17 (.542).

Spencer Earns Preseason Honors
• Senior Jasmyne Spencer earned three major preseason honors heading into the 2011 season. Last season, Spencer became the first Terp in the program's history to be named to the MAC Hermann Trophy Preseason Watch List and once again she is among the 42 selections to the Watch List in 2011.

• She was also selected to the Soccer America preseason All-America list for the second-straight season and was named one of the top 20 upperclassmen in Division I by TopDrawerSoccer.com.

• Spencer is coming off a junior season that saw her selected to the All-ACC first team for the second consecutive season and became the first Terp to earn NSCAA All-America honors since 1996. She was also a repeat first team All-Southeast after tying for the team lead with 10 goals and finishing second on the squad with 25 points. Her two-year totals of 20 goals and 50 points are the highest two-year aggregate for a Terrapin since 1995-96.

Spencer Among Lowes Senior CLASS Award Candidates
• Senior Jasmyne Spencer is one of 30 women's soccer student-athletes selected as candidates for the 2011 Lowes Senior CLASS Award, which will be presented to the senior with notable achievements in four areas of excellence - community, classroom, character and competition. Her "Player Card" can be viewed here.

• An acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School®, the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award focuses on the total student-athlete and encourages students to use their platform in athletics to make a positive impact as leaders in their communities.

• Each of the 30 candidate classes will be narrowed to 10 finalists midway through the regular season, and those 10 names will be placed on the official ballot. Ballots will be distributed through a nationwide voting system to media, coaches and fans, who will select one male candidate and one female candidate who best exemplify excellence in the four Cs of community, classroom, character and competition.

Ranked Terps
• Maryland moved up one spot to No. 3 in the latest Soccer America Top 25 and two places to No. 3 in this week's NSCAA poll. The No. 3 ranking ties for the Terps' all-time best ranking, which was set in 2010.

• Maryland held steady at No. 9 in the TopDrawerSoccer.com Tournament 64 rankings.

Non-Conference Success
• Dating back to its 10-0 win over Mount St. Mary's in 2008, Maryland is unbeaten in its last 25 matches vs. non-ACC opponents. The Terps have outscored its non-conference opposition 77-13 in those 25 matches.

• The Terps recorded 20 straight wins over non-ACC foes before tying Georgetown, 1-1, in second round of the NCAA tournament in 2010. Maryland is now 23-0-2 in its last 25 non-conference games after opening 2011 with wins over No. 22 Minnesota, Loyola and Navy and tying No. 1 Stanford.

100 And Counting At Ludwig Field
• The Terps won their 100th match at Ludwig Field with a 6-0 victory over Iona on Aug. 20, 2010. Since its opening in 1995, Ludwig Field has proved to be a tremendous home-field advantage for the Terps women's soccer team. All-time Maryland is 111-46-19 (.685) at Ludwig Field.

• Through the seasons, the Terps have had a knack for shutting teams out at Ludwig Field. Maryland has won 73 of its 111 victories (65.8%) at Ludwig Field via shutout. Add in the 10 0-0 ties the Terps have had at Ludwig Field and it totals 83 times that Maryland has shutout its opponent in 175 games (47.4%).

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Media Information
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• GameTracker: Follow Terps games live in 2011 on your computer with GameTracker. Links for all games that will be available can be found at www.umterps.com.