COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The second-ranked Maryland field hockey team (12-0, 3-0 B1G) will host No. 15 Rutgers (8-3, 1-3) Friday in College Park, then will travel to No. 7 Penn State (8-3, 3-1) Sunday at noon on BTN.

• Admission is free for Friday's game vs. Rutgers. Fans planning to arrive before 4 p.m. Friday can park in the metered lot XVL across the street from the Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex. Parkign is free after 4 p.m. Click here for a campus parking map.

• The Terps-Scarlet Knights game will be streamed live online through BTN Plus and can be seen on BTN2Go.com and the BTN2Go app. Fans can watch with their BTN Plus subscriptions. Fans outside the U.S. can watch here. Live stats will also be available. Fans can also follow the Terps' Twitter feed for live updates here.

• The Terps' game at Penn State Sunday will air around the world on the Big Ten Network. Click here for your channel number for BTN.

• Fans can watch Sunday's game on BTN2Go.com and the BTN2Go app by logging in with their cable subscription info. Fans outside the U.S. can watch here. Live stats will be available here.

RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW

• Maryland is coming off of a 4-2 win at then-No. 2 Connecticut Sunday. Bodil Keus scored 4:02 into the match, then again 10:00 later, to open a 2-0 lead for the Terps. Bibi Donraadt scored to make it 3-0 before halftime and Nike Lorenz added a fourth goal in the second half. On the other side of the ball, the Terps' defense held the nation's top-ranked offense to just five shots and did not allow a penalty corner in the first 60 minutes.

• Keus earned Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week honors, Lorenz was named Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week and Donraadt was voted Big Ten Freshman of the Week. Keus was also named Longstreth/NFHCA Defensive Player of the Week Wednesday.

• Senior tri-captain Linnea Gonzales is leading Maryland with 10 goals this season. Maryland has eight scorers with multiple goals and 12 total Terps have found the goal line.

• Lorenz and Gonzales are Nos. 2 and 3 in the Big Ten in goals per game with 1.00 for Lorenz and 0.83 for Gonzales. Madison Maguire is No. 1 in the league and No. 3 in the country in assists with 0.83 per contest.

• At 12-0, Maryland is off to its best start since 2013 when it started 15-0.

• Head coach Missy Meharg is in her 31st season as head coach of the Terrapins. She's led them to a record of 555-135-9 (.800), seven NCAA titles, 23 conference titles and 17 Final Fours. She has been named NFHCA National Coach of the Year an unprecedented nine times in her career.

SCOUTING THE SCARLET KNIGHTS

• No. 15 Rutgers is 8-3 overall and 1-3 in Big Ten play. The Scarlet Knights fell to No. 7 Penn State, 3-2, and beat No. 19 Delaware, 2-1, last weekend.
• Daphne Groothuis is leading Rutgers with six goals and nine assists this year.
• Maryland leads the all-time series with Rutgers, 30-3-1, and has won the last 13 straight matchups, dating back to 1999. The Terps are 7-0 vs. the Scarlet Knights at the Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex.
• Most recently, the Terrapins won 6-0 at No. 12 Rutgers on Oct. 22 last year. Melissa Wilken and Madison Maguire each picked up a hat trick.
• Seventh-year Rutgers head coach Meredith Civico is a Maryland field hockey alum. She played for head coach Missy Meharg in 2003 and 2005 and was a member of the 2005 NCAA title team.

SCOUTING THE NITTANY LIONS

• No. 7 Penn State is 8-3 overall and 3-1 in Big Ten play. The Nittany Lions beat No. 17 Rutgers, 3-2, and James Madison, 8-2, last weekend.
• Anna Simon is leading Penn State with seven goals this year.
• Maryland trails the series with Penn State, 16-22-1, but has won seven of the last nine matchups since 2008.
• Most recently, they split last year's meetings. Maryland won 2-1 in double overtime last year in College Park on Oct. 15. In the Big Ten Semifinals in East Lansing, Penn State won 3-2 on Nov. 11. Bodil Keus tied it up with 12 minutes to play, but the Nittany Lions scored the game winner with 3:59 to go.

MARYLAND IN THE TOP 10

• Maryland was tabbed as the No. 2 team in the country in the latest Penn Monto/Division I Coaches poll released Oct. 2.

• The Terrapins have been ranked in the top 10 for 201 of 208 weeks since 1999.

Penn Monto/Division I Coaches Poll (Oct. 2)
1. North Carolina (35)
2. MARYLAND* (13)
3. Connecticut (1)
4. Duke
5. Princeton
6. Michigan*
7. Penn State*
8. Boston College
9. Louisville
10. Iowa*
11. Harvard
12. Northwestern*
13. Syracuse
14. Saint Joseph's
15. Rutgers*
16. Wake Forest
17. Maine
18. Virginia
19. Liberty
20. Delaware
21. Stanford
22. Old Dominion
23. Boston University
24. Albany
25. Ohio State*

Italics are Terps' 2018 opponents | * - Big Ten opponent

B1G TERPS

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 121-38-3 (.756) all-time against Big Ten opponents.

• Head coach Missy Meharg is 104-18-1 (.850) vs. Big Ten opponents in her 30 years at the helm of the Maryland field hockey program.

• Since joining the league in 2014, the Terps are 31-4 in conference play.

• The Terrapins are 41-3 (.932) vs. Big Ten teams at the Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex.

• 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.

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 173-20 (.896) 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 26 of Maryland's NCAA Tournament games and has played host to three Final Fours (2007, 2010, 2014). The Terrapins are 23-3 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 eight 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.

THREE TERPS EARN PRESEASON BIG TEN HONORS
• Senior Linnea Gonzales, junior Kelee Lepage and sophomore Brooke DeBerdine were named to the Big Ten Players to Watch list in August. The full list, click HERE.

• This marks Gonzales' fourth straight year earning Big Ten Preseason honors. She was named Big Ten Freshman of the Year in 2015 and All-Big Ten First Team honors last season. Gonzales is the Terps' second leading returning scorer with 10 goals last season, including three in their NCAA Tournament run to the national championship game.

• Lepage started in 12 of 22 games as a sophomore last year. She scored one goal in a game at Michigan State and notched three assists.

• As a freshman last season, DeBerdine started in all 23 games and was named to the NCAA All-Tournament Team.

CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN

• Seniors Linnea Gonzales, Julie Duncan and junior Kelee Lepage were voted team captains before the season. The full list, click HERE.

• The trio was votes on by their peers after a team vote. All three Terps are new to the captainship role.

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 65-25 (.722) all-time in games that went to overtime or penalty strokes.

• In Meharg's tenure, the Terps are 54-21 (.720) in overtime or penalty strokes games.

STAFF UPDATES
• The Terrapins welcome two new assistant staff members in 2018. Kati Nearhouse comes on board as the team's Director of Operations and former Terrapin Kasey Tapman joins as the team's volunteer assistant coach.

• Nearhouse comes to Maryland after spending the 2017 season as an assistant coach at Bryant. Prior to her time at Bryant, Nearhouse worked for two seasons at her alma mater, Syracuse, as the Director of Operations for field hockey. She played her first three seasons at Old Dominion before transferring to Syracuse to finish her career. As a player, Nearhouse was named an NFHCA Division I Second Team All-American after a standout sophomore campaign in 2011. That season, she started 25 games and tallied 21 points off eight goals and five assists, leading the Lady Monarchs to the Final Four.

• Tapman was a part of five Maryland field hockey teams, including a redshirt season. She played in 77 career games. She helped the Terps to the 2011 NCAA title and three total NCAA Final Fours. In her time in College Park, Maryland won four conference titles. She is currently on the U.S. National Team's Developmental Squad.

TERPS ON NATIONAL TEAMS

• Nine Terrapins, former and present, are currently on USA Field Hockey's national team rosters. 

• Jill (Witmer) Funk competed with Team USA in the Rio Olympics last summer, along with former volunteer assistant coach Stefanie Fee. Former Terrapin Megan Frazer is on the Irish National Team and current Terp Nike Lorenz plays for Team Germany.

• Recent grads Anna Dessoye and Alyssa Parker are on the U.S. Women's National Team. Seniors Linnea Gonzales, Sabrina Rhodes and volunteer assistant coach Kasey Tapman are on the U.S. Developmental Squad.

• Current Terps Brooke DeBerdine, Kyler Greenwalt are on the U.S. Under-21 Team.

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