#4 Maryland (6-0) vs. #12 Rutgers (8-0)
March 20, 2022
Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex
12:00 pm EDT
COLLEGE PARK, MD - The No. 4 Maryland women's lacrosse team will open up Big Ten play with an undefeated, top-15 matchup against the Rutgers Scarlet Knights on Sunday, March 20 at noon at the Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex. The game will air to a national audience on ESPNU with Leah Secondo and Rachael DeCecco on the call.
RUTGERS STORYLINES
LAST TIME OUT
- The Terps are 6-0 so far in 2022, coming off a dominant 19-7 win over Villanova last Sunday in which Aurora Cordingley had a career-day with 11 points (six goals, five assists), earning her IWLCA National Offensive Player of the Week and Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week honors.
- Cordingley's 11 points were the most by a Maryland player in nine years, since Alex Aust had an 11 point game on March 5, 2013 vs. UMBC.
- The graduate student became only the sixth Terp ever to have an 11 point game in the 49 year history of the program and only the 26th player in Big Ten history to accomplish this feat.
RORY IS ROARING
- Fifth-year transfer Aurora Cordingley is off to a record-breaking start as a Terp, currently leading the nation points per game (7.67 per game).
- She also stands second in the nation in assists per game (3.17), fourth in goals per game (4.50) and seventh in shooting percentage (69.2).
- At her current pace, Cordingley is on track to break Maryland's single season points record (Jen Adams, 148, 2001).
- The Canadian National Team member has at least five points in every game this season, has at least six points in five straight games and is the first Terp with two double-digit point games in a season since Alex Aust in 2013.
- Cordingley has been named the IWLCA National Offensive Player twice this season (March 1 & March 15), the first Terp to win two national weekly awards since Tewaaraton winner Megan Taylor in 2019 and has won four of five Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week honors, the most by a Terp in a single season since Taylor Cummings in 2015.
TEWAARATON TERPS
- A trio of fifth-years: Abby Bosco, Aurora Cordingley and Grace Griffin, and junior Hannah Leubecker were all named to the Tewaaraton Watch List last week, which features the top 51 players in the sport of women's lacrosse.
- This is the third-straight year that Griffin has been named to the watch list and last year was one of the final 25 nominees for the most prestigious award in lacrosse. Leubecker and Cordingley (Johns Hopkins) were also on the watch list last season. This is Bosco's (Penn) first ever watch list selection.
- Maryland has won eight of the last 11 Tewaaraton awards, with Megan Taylor becoming the first goalie in lacrosse history to win the award in 2019.
- The Terps have had a finalist for the award in 14 straight seasons in which the Tewaaraton has been been awarded and every season under head coach Cathy Reese. Last season, Lizzie Colson earned finalist honors after a season in which she was named the IWLCA National Defender of the Year.
draw dominance
- Maryland has dominated the draw circle through five games, standing fifth in the nation with 18.00 draw controls per game.
- The Terps have won 108-of-171 draw controls so far, a 63.2% win percentage, also the fourth-best in the country.
- The draw effort is led by two-time Big Ten Midfielder of the Week Shaylan Ahearn and Abby Bosco, who are both top-five in the Big Ten in draw controls per game, averaging 6.67 and 5.17 apiece.
MEET THE CAPTAINS
- Fifth-years Torie Barretta and Grace Griffin were selected as Maryland's 2022 Captains.
- With her selection, Griffin becomes the first ever Terp to be a three-year captain, also being chosen in 2020 & 2021.
- An IWLCA Third Team All-American last year, Griffin was second on the team with 48 points, scoring 29 goals and recording 19 assists, second with 19 caused turnovers and third with 30 groundballs.
- An IWLCA Second Team All-Region and All-Big Ten Tournament Team selection in 2021, Barretta stood second on the team with 19 caused turnovers and fourth on the team with 25 groundballs.
SERIES HISTORY
- The Terps lead the all-time series against Rutgers, 21-1.
- Maryland and Rutgers split the two meetings last year with each team winning at home by two goals. Hannah Leubecker and Libby May each had five point games against the Scarlet Knights last season.
- Maryland has never lost to Rutgers in College Park and stands 154-4 at home under head coach Cathy Reese, with eight undefeated home campaigns in the last nine seasons (2013, '14, '15, '16, '17, '18, '19 & 21).
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