• A win would mark the Terps seventh Big Ten Regular Season Championship, winning the title in each season from 2015-19 and last year, 2022. It would be the 11th Big Ten Championship overall (four Tournament Championships from 2016-18 & 2022) and 32nd. conference championship in total, winning 21 in the ACC (10 Regular Season, 11 Tournament).
• The Terps have won nine of their last 10 games, outscoring its opponents 148-83 over that stretch.
• Goalie Emily Sterling has been tremendous over Maryland's last 10 games, tallying 91 saves to only 80 goals allowed, a .532 save percentage. Last season against Northwestern, Sterling had one of the best games of her career, tallying a career-high 16 saves to only nine goals allowed, a 64-percent save percentage, holding an offense averaging 17 goals per game to only nine.

Emily Sterling at Drexel

• The 2023 season will be the 50th season of Maryland women's lacrosse, a program that has been the most successful in the entire sport since its start.
• Maryland has won 15 national championships and 31 conference championships. The Terps have participated in 28 Final Fours, including 12 of the last 13 and have won 12 of the last 28 national championships, including seven-straight from 1995-2001. Maryland has an all-time program record of 771-154-3 through 49 seasons.

50 Seasons
15 National Championships

All our national title teams in one place! What a sight yesterday. pic.twitter.com/d5V7x2qPKR

— Maryland Women's Lacrosse (@MarylandWLax) April 3, 2023

• Attacker Eloise Clevenger had a historic game against Ohio State in the Terps last win, setting the Maryland record with eight assists, breaking current volunteer assistant coach Alex Aust's previous record of seven set against UMBC in 2013.
• Clevenger's eight assists are the most by any player in the nation in a game this season and make her only the 11th of any Big Ten player ever to have an eight assist game.
• The junior currently stands seventh in the nation and second in the Big Ten with 37 assists this season. She has nine games of multiple assists and seven with three-plus assists.

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👑 Elle Clevenger 👑 pic.twitter.com/7CZbSAlYBa

— Maryland Women's Lacrosse (@MarylandWLax) April 10, 2023

• Maryland has been dominant on the draw circle through 16 games, standing with the fourth-best draw control percentage in the nation, winning 62.1 percent of all draw controls this season. The Terps have recorded 16.38 draw controls per game this season, the 12th-best mark in the nation. Shaylan Ahearn stands 12th in the country and leads the Big Ten with 106 draw controls.
• In the Terps game against Drexel, Shaylan Ahearn became only the sixth Terp in program history to surpass the 200 career draw control mark with 14. In the Terps game against #24 Penn, Ahearn had the second best draw control mark of her career with 13 to move into fourth all-time in program history with 269, surpassing Karri Ellen Johnson (2008-12). Ahearn now has 288 career draw controls.
• Ahearn tallied 115 draw controls last season, the eighth-most in a single season in program history.
• Another Terp, Abby Bosco, also eclipsed the 200 draw control mark at Villanova and now has 241 in her career. 160 of those have come as a Terp, 81 at Penn, where she played from 2018-21.

Shaylan Ahearn wins draw control at Drexel

• The Terps have won 10 Big Ten titles (six regular season championships (2015-19, 22) & four Tournament Championships (2016-18, 22)) and 31 conference championships in total, winning 21 in the ACC (10 Regular Season, 11 Tournament).
• In seven seasons in the Big Ten (no 2020 due to COVID-19), Maryland is 45-6in Big Ten regular season play and 56-89overall including the Big Ten Tournament. Maryland has never lost a Big Ten home game and has gone undefeated in regular season Big Ten play in every season but 2021.
• Maryland has won 15 Conference Tournament Championships in program history, with 10 of those coming since Cathy Reese became the head coach in 2007 (six ACC, four Big Ten). The Terps took home six-straight ACC titles from 2009-14 and three-straight B1G titles from 2016-18. Reese is 26-5 as the coach of Maryland in conference tournament games.
• The Terps have won 22 Big Ten conference player of the year awards (four attacker, four midfielder, seven defender, five goalie, two freshman) in seven years in the conference. Cathy Reese has been named the Big Ten Coach of the Year four times (2016-19).

2022 Big Ten Champs

• Head Coach Cathy Reese enters her 17th season at the helm of Maryland women's lacrosse. The winningest coach in program history, Reese is 314-38 as head coach and has led the Terps to five National Championships, 12 Final Fours and 22 Conference Championships.
• Maryland is 167-6 at home under Reese, with nine undefeated home campaigns in the last 11 seasons (2013, '14, '15, '16, '17, '18, '19, '21).
• Reese is 56-9 against Big Ten opponents since joining the conference in 2015 and 9-4 against Northwestern.

Cathy Reese and Grace Griffin ('22)

• Maryland leads the all-time series with Northwestern, 18-10 and has beaten the Wildcats in many memorable games, including the 2019 NCAA Semifinals, the 2016 & 2017 Big Ten Tournament Championship, the 2015 NCAA Quarterfinals, the 2014 NCAA Semifinals and the 2010 National Championship.
• Last season, the Terps and Wildcats met with the Big Ten Regular Season title on the line and Maryland defeated Northwestern, 15-9 behind a spectacular defensive performance and a career-high eight points by Libby May (seven goals, one assist). Both program's would go onto make the 2022 Final Four.
• Maryland head coach Cathy Reese and Northwestern head coach Kelly Amonte Hiller played together at Maryland in 1995 & 1996, winning the National Championship in both seasons.

Victoria Hensh & Libby May celebrate goal vs. Northwestern, 2022