No. 9 Maryland Prepares For Road Game With No. 10 Denver

Saturday, March 2

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No. 9 Maryland Prepares For Road Game With No. 10 Denver

2/29/2024 3:00:00 PM | Women's Lacrosse

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#9 Maryland (3-1) at #10 Denver (3-1)

March 2, 2024

Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium

1 PM ET

Pioneer All Access

COLLEGE PARK, MD - The No. 9 Terrapins travel west for a Top 10 matchup with No. 10 Denver on Saturday. The game will begin at 1:00 p.m. EST and will be streamed on Pioneer All-Access.

Where we are

Maryland enters the weekend eager to bounce back after falling short against No. 16 Florida for its first loss of the season. The Terps are sitting at 3-1 entering their second Top 10 matchup this year. Two weeks ago, Maryland took down then-No. 5 Syracuse, earning their first ranked win of the season.
The 2024 schedule consists of ten non-conference and six conference matchups. The Terps continued to schedule strong competition with nine opponents ranked in the IWLCA Preseason Top 25.
The Terps are coming off a season where they earned their 33rd consecutive NCAA Tournament bid. Maryland finished the 2023 season 15-7 overall and with a 4-2 conference record.
Maryland recently announced six of its games will be broadcast nationally. Five games will air on Big Ten Network, including three home contests and one will show on ESPNU.

Maryland Women's Lacrosse vs. Florida at Field Hockey and Women's Lacross Complex in College Park, MD, on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024. Samantha Osborne/ Maryland Terrapins.

Maryland vs. Florida, February 24, 2024

Championship facility

The Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex completed renovations this fall, achieving a comprehensive enhancement of the facility transforming the existing 5,500 square foot facility into a 17,193 square foot team house.
The facility features larger, separated locker rooms for Field Hockey and Women's Lacrosse student-athletes with spacious team rooms with all-new technologies, an increased Sports Medicine room with new rehabilitative and recovery equipment, inclusive of hydrotherapy space, a signature lobby to recognize and celebrate the championships and success of both programs, a relocated fan entrance for ease of access to the complex seating areas and a second floor addition with coaching offices and meeting spaces.

A championship facility. Welcome to The Plex. pic.twitter.com/oN1MCiEeef
— Maryland Women's Lacrosse (@MarylandWLax) December 8, 2023

2024 standouts

After four games, Eloise Clevenger leads the team in assists (19) and points (25). She averages 6.25 points per game and 4.75 assists per game, leading the Big Ten in both categories. Her assists per game average ranks second in the nation.
Hannah Leubecker and Kori Edmondson have a four-game scoring streak and lead the Terps in total goals with eight apiece. Each scorer has posted a hat trick and two two-goal games so far this season.
Emily Sterling has remained a consistent presence in net for the Terps, posting the seventh-best save percentage in the country of .576 after four games. She is tied for second in the big ten with a .950 saves per game average.

Kori Edmondson at Syracuse, February 17, 2024

New Additions

Reese and the Terps added two of the top transfers out of the portal for the 2024 season in 2023 Big Ten Defender of the Year Meghan Ball and Colorado stand-out Sophie Halus. Ball, a graduate transfer from Rutgers, was the first non-Maryland player to earn Defender of the Year. In addition, she is a three-time IWLCA All-American, three-time First Team All-Big Ten selection and she graduated as Rutgers' all-time leader in career caused turnovers (154) and draw controls (308).
Halus, a junior, started all 36 contests in her first two seasons with the Buffaloes. She tallied 40 ground balls, 32 caused turnovers, one goal and three assists.
Maryland also welcomes an impressive freshmen class, highlighted by top-10 ranked signee Maisy Clevenger. The class also features ranked signees JJ Suriano and Lexi Dupcak, alongside watchlist talent Lauren LaPointe.

Defender Sophie Halus (25)Maryland Women's Lacrosse at Saint Joseph's at Sweeney Field in Philadelphia, PA on Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. Brieanna Andrews/Maryland Terrapins

Sophie Halus at Saint Joseph's, February 9, 2024

Dominance Under Reese

Head Coach Cathy Reese enters her 18th season at the helm of Maryland women's lacrosse. The winningest coach in program history, Reese is 320-42 as head coach and has led the Terps to five National Championships, 12 Final Fours and 22 Conference Championships.
Maryland is 168-7 at home under Reese, with eight undefeated home campaigns in the last 11 seasons (2013, '14, '15, '16, '17, '18, '19, '21).

Head Coach Cathy Reese. (1) Maryland Terrapins vs. (3) Rutgers Scarlet Knights in the Championship Game of the 2022 Big Ten Womenâ??s Lacrosse Tournament at SHI Stadium in Piscataway, NJ. on Sunday, May. 8, 2022.

Cathy Reese after B1G Tournament, May 8, 2022

History vs. Denver

The Terps lead the all-time series against Denver, 4-1, with the Terps and Pioneers meeting in the postseason in back-to-back seasons in 2018 & 2019.
Maryland defeated Denver in the 2019 NCAA Quarterfinals, 17-8, en route to the program's 15th National Championship.
All five meetings between the Terrapins and Pioneers have been in College Park, with the 2019 meeting taking place in the football stadium.
Maryland head coach Cathy Reese was the head coach at Denver from 2004-06, going 31-29 in her time in Colorado, including a 16-5 record in her final season in 2006 before coming home to College Park.
These teams met during the 2023 season where the Terps were unable to complete a comeback in SECU Stadium, falling 8-7. Kori Edmondson led Maryland with three goals, while Emily Sterling made eight saves.