2016 Terrapin Tewaaraton Guide

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Taylor Cummings and Alice Mercer will travel to the nation's capital Thursday for the 16th annual Tewaaraton Award Ceremony at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian.

Cummings – the reigning two-time winner of the top honor in college lacrosse – is one of four Terrapins to win the coveted award. Katie Schwarzmann was a two-time Tewaaraton winner while Jen Adams and Caitlyn Phipps also earned the honor.

As four-year starters at Maryland, Cummings and Mercer have helped lead the Terps to four regular-season conference titles, three conference tournament titles and two NCAA Championships. The team has made the national championship game in each of the last four yeras. The duo went 88-4 in their four seasons, including a 44-0 record at home.

The Terps have had 17 Tewaaraton finalists in 13 years of the award. This is the fourth time Maryland has had two finalists in the same season.

The five finalists for this year's award are Cummings, Mercer, Syracuse attacker Kayla Treanor, Florida midfielder Nicole Graziano and Notre Dame defender Barbara Sullivan.

The Tewaaraton Award annually honors the top male and top female college lacrosse player in the United States.

Taylor CUmmings, M, Ellicott City, Md

2015 and 2016 Big Ten Midfielder of the Year
2016 Honda Award finalist
U.S. National Team member
Four-time IWLCA First Team All-American
Two-time IWLCA National Midfielder of the Year, Tewaaraton Award winner and Honda Award winner
Two-time All-ACC and two-time All-Big Ten selection
Set the Maryland single-season records in draw controls (144) and caused turnovers (52)
Senior co-captain and leader in all parts of the field
Finishes career ranked in multiple Maryland record book categories: third in goals (229), ninth in assists (94), second in points (323) and first in draw controls (509)
The historic Maryland lacrosse career that nearly never happened (ESPNW)
Best women's college lacrosse player ever? Terps' Taylor Cummings makes a case (Washington Post)
Maryland star Taylor Cummings, maybe the best women's player ever (Baltimore Sun)