#1 Terps Seek NCAA Title Repeat Sunday vs. #2 UNC

The top-seeded Maryland women's lacrosse team (20-1) faces No. 2-seed North Carolina (18-3) in the NCAA Championship final Sunday evening at 8:30 p.m.

The Terrapins-Tar Heels game will be broadcast on ESPNU.
Live stats will be available, and game updates will be provided on the Maryland women's lacrosse Twitter feed.

Tourney Terps

The Terps are competing in their third straight championship game and are participating in their seventh straight Final Four (2009-pres.).
Maryland is making its 26th consecutive appearance in the NCAA tournament (1990-pres.).
The Terrapins lead the nation with 31 NCAA appearances and are also tops in wins (60), championship game appearances (19) and NCAA titles (11).

terps advance to third straight ncaa championship

Taylor Cummings recorded six points (2G, 4A) as the top-seeded Terps took down No. 4-seed Syracuse, 10-8, in the NCAA semifinals Friday.
Kristen Lamon tallied a hat trick while Brooke Griffin scored twice.
Maryland moved to 5-0 all-time against Syracuse in NCAA Tournament games.

terrapin-tar heels history

As former conference rivals, the Terps and Tar Heels have a deep history. Maryland is 21-12 all-time against North Carolina.
Sunday's game is a rematch of the 2013 national championship game, which the Tar Heels won in triple overtime to end the Terrapins' perfect season.
Maryland defeated North Carolina, 13-11, in February.

FIVE TERPS NAMED IWLCA ALL-AMERICANS

Five Maryland women's lacrosse players were named IWLCA All-Americans Monday.
Taylor Cummings, Megan Douty and Brooke Griffin earned spots on the first team while Alice Mercer was named to the second team and Megan Whittle earned third team honors.
The five Terrapins are the most of any program honored by the IWLCA and Maryland has the most players on the first team.
Cummings is a three-time first team All-American while Douty and Griffin earned the honor for the second straight season. Mercer was a third team All-American in 2014.

cummings named tewaaraton finalist

Junior midfielder Taylor Cummingswas named one of five finalists for the 2015 Tewaaraton Award, as announced by the Tewaaraton Foundation Thursday.
Cummings won the Tewaaraton trophy last season, becoming the youngest female winner in the award's history.
A member of the U.S. Women's National Team, Cummings' per game averages for points, ground balls, draw controls and caused turnovers top the Big Ten, and she ranks fifth in the nation in points and draw controls.
Cummings would be the Terps' sixth Tewaaraton Award winner, and Maryland's second two-time winner.

terps trip earn top big ten honors

Brooke Griffin, Taylor Cummings and Megan Douty earned 2015 Big Ten Conference individual honors, as voted on by the league's six coaches and announced by the conference Monday afternoon.
Griffin was named the conference's Attack Player of the Year and has 39 goals and 18 assists on the season. The redshirt senior attacker is the leader of the sixth-ranked scoring offense as the Terps are averaging 14.42 goals per game.
Cummings was named Midfielder of the Year after leading the Terps in nearly every statistical category. Cummings was named both Offensive and Defensive Player of the Week by the conference during the regular season.
Douty was named the Defensive Player of the Year after leading the sixth-ranked scoring defense. The senior defender has caused 20 turnovers and picked up 25 ground balls this season.

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Players Mentioned

Taylor Cummings

Megan Douty

Brooke Griffin

Kristen Lamon

Alice Mercer

Megan Whittle

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