COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The seventh-ranked Maryland field hockey team (5-2, 1-0 B1G) will travel north for a top 10 matchup at No. 10 Princeton (3-2) Tuesday at 6 p.m. The Terps and the Tigers will play at Princeton's Bedford Field.
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right here, right now
• The Terps opened Big Ten play Saturday with a 4-1 in over Indiana. Sophomore Olivia Reiter scored off her own rebound eight minutes in. Redshirt senior Welma Luus made it a two-goal lead for the Terps at the start of the second half. The Hoosiers threated with a score to cut it to 2-1 with 25 minutes to go, but graduate student Grace Balsdon struck off a penalty corner in the 60th minute to help secure the win. Junior Lein Holsboer added the Terps' fourth and final goal in the 62nd minute. Sophomore goalkeeper Sarah Holliday notched a career-high eight saves. RECAP | STATS
• Luus leads the Terrapins with seven goals so far this season. Balsdon has scored six, sophmore Linnea Gonzales has scored four goals and redshirt senior Emma Rissinger has three, giving the Terrapins one of the most balanced attacks in the country.
Scouting the tigers
• Princeton is 3-2 so far this season, with wins over then-No. 12 Albany and then-No. 10 Delaware along the way. Most recently, the Tigers lost at No. 14 Virginia, 2-0, Friday.
• Ryan McCarthy and Sophia Tornetta are leading the Tigers with four goals each so far this season.
• First-year head coach Carla Tagliente played at Maryland from 1997-00. Assistant coach Dina Rizzo played at Maryland with Tagliente and graduated in 2002. Rizzo was associate head coach at Maryland from 2010-15. They were both NFHCA All-Americans and helped the Terrapins to the 1999 NCAA title.
• Maryland owns the all-time series over Princeton, 21-8-1 and has won five of the last six matchups. They met twice last year. In College Park on Sept. 22, the Terrapins won 3-0 behind two goals from Emma Rissinger and one from Lein Holsboer. They met again in the NCAA First Round on Nov. 14 in Syracuse, N.Y. The Tigers won 3-1.
Maryland in the top ten
• Maryland was tabbed as the No. 7 team in the country in the Penn Monto/Division I Coaches poll released Tuesday.
• The Terrapins have started the year in the top 10 in each of the last 18 years, since 1999.
• Click here for the latest NFHCA poll.
Three Terps Selected To Big Ten Players To Watch List
• Sophomore Linnea Gonzales, junior Lein Holsboer and redshirt senior Welma Luus were named to the Big Ten Players to Watch list before the start of the season. The full list, click here.
• This marks Gonzales' second straight year on the conference's Preseason Watch List. She was named Big Ten Freshman of the Year last year and also earned NFHCA Third Team All-America honors. Gonzales scored 10 goals with three assists in her rookie season.
• Luus also earned All-Big Ten and NFHCA Third Team All-America honors last year. She led the Terrapins in scoring with 20 goals on the year. Luus helped lead the Terps to the Big Ten tournament title with seven goals in the three-game tournament run.
• Holsboer added six goals, three game winners, and 11 assists in helping the Terps to a 19-4 record and their second straight Big Ten championship.
staff updates
• The Terrapins welcome two new assistant staff members in 2016. Stefanie Fee joins the staff as an assistant coach and Joann Engestrom joins as a volunteer assistant coach.
• Fee played at Duke from 2008-11 and helped the Blue Devils to a pair of NCAA Quarterfinals appearances as a four-year starter on defense. She earned NFHCA Second Team All-America honors in 2011. She is a member of the U.S. national team and competed in the Olympics in Rio this summer.
• Engestrom played at Temple, where she graduated in 2005. She earned Regional All-American, All-Atlantic 10, and All-America East Conference honors during her time with the Owls. In 2003, Engestrom played on the U-23 Junior National Team and the U.S. National Team, training for the 2004 Olympics. Engestrom helped to restructure the Washington Wolves Hockey Club in 2007.
Terps in the B1G
• The Terrapins joined the Big Ten conference in 2014, after playing in the ACC for 31 years. Big Ten field hockey is the largest conference in the history of the sport in the NCAA with nine teams - Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Rutgers and Maryland.
• The Terps are 103-33-3 (.752) all-time against Big Ten opponents.
• Head coach Missy Meharg is 86-13-1 (.865) vs. Big Ten opponents in her 29 years at the helm of the Maryland field hockey program.
• The Terrapins are 30-1 (.968) vs. Big Ten teams at the Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex. They have won 20 straight matchups at home vs. Big Ten teams, dating back to 2008. Penn State is the only Big Ten team to win at the Complex with a 1-0 victory on Nov. 11, 2007.
• The Terrapins won the first Big Ten title for the University of Maryland with a 4-1 win over No. 14 Iowa on Nov. 1, 2014 in College Park.
• Maryland defended its first Big Ten title when it clinched the 2015 regular season crown with a 1-0 overtime win vs. Indiana on Oct. 23.
• The Terrapins won their first Big Ten Tournament title with a 5-1 win over second-seeded and 10th-ranked Michigan on Nov. 8 in the final. Welma Luus scored four goals in the match and broke a Tournament record with seven in the three-game run.
HOME SWEET HOME
Since its opening in 2003, the Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex has provided the Maryland hockey program a huge home field advantage.
• The Terps are 150-17 (.898) all-time at the Complex.
• Maryland won 38 straight games at the Complex from Oct.11, 2008 through Oct. 14, 2011. The streak ended with a 5-2 loss to then-No. 1 Old Dominion.
• The Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex has played home to 24 of Maryland's NCAA Tournament games and has played host to three Final Fours (2007, 2010, 2014). The Terrapins are 22-2 in those games and won the 2010 national title on their home field.
PACK THE HOUSE
• The Maryland field hockey team has increasingly attracted more and more fans to the Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex season after season. The Terrapins have led the nation in attendance in five of the last six years.
• An NCAA-record crowd of 2,381 came out to watch as Maryland beat North Carolina 3-2 in double overtime for the 2010 national championship at the Complex.
terps on national teams
• Ten Terrapins, former and present, are currently on USA Field Hockey's national team rosters.
• Katie O'Donnell Bam is a two-time Olympian. Bam and Jill Witmer competed with Team USA in the Rio Olympics this past summer. Bam led Team USA with five goals. Ali McEvoy is also a member of the U.S. Senior National Team.
• Junior Carrie Hanks and sophomore Linnea Gonzales are on the U.S. Under-21 Team. Lizzy Dessoye and Kelee Lepage are on the U.S. Under-19 Team.
• Recent Terp alums Anna Dessoye, Alyssa Parker and current senior Delaney Leathers are members of the U.S. National Team system, as alums of the U.S. Under-21 Team.
overtime is terps time
During Missy Meharg's tenure, the Terrapins have become one of the nation's most dangerous teams in overtime.
• The Terps are 59-24 (.711) all-time in games that went to overtime or penalty strokes.
• In Meharg's tenure, the Terps are 48-20 (.710) in overtime or penalty strokes games.
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