25 for 25 — The Top 25 Moments From The Last 25 Years

Maryland Athletics is celebrating the first 25 years of the 21st century by looking back at some of the greatest Terrapin moments across all of our sports. Listed by date, these games, moments or highlights represented the best of the University of Maryland from 2001-25. Join us each week in the month of December as we look back at some of the greatest moments in Maryland history.

Note: Moments had to take place from Jan. 2001 to Dec. 2025 to be considered.

Men's Soccer

December 14, 2008

Maryland wins the 2008 NCAA Championship with four-straight one-goal wins to end the season.

The Maryland men's soccer team needed to prove twice why it was the best team in the ACC and it did just that and more Sunday, defeating North Carolina, 1-0, off a game-winner from senior Graham Zusi to capture the 2008 NCAA National Championship at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco, Texas.

The title is the third for the Maryland men's soccer program and the second in the past four seasons. Head coach Sasho Cirovski now boasts two national championships, as do departing seniors A.J. Delagarza, Michael Marchiano and Zusi, who all played reserve roles in the 2005 championship. The 2008 edition has set what Cirovski coined as the `gold standard', setting a school-record for wins (23) and shutouts (15) in a season as well as winning both the ACC and NCAA championships. The Terps will take a 16-game winning streak into the 2009 campaign.

"Our goal at the beginning of the year was to be the last team standing," Cirovski, who became the Maryland career-leader in wins earlier this season, said. "Our motto was from the Home Depot Center to Pizza Hut Park. The leadership of the seniors along with the hunger of the junior class and the sophomore class as well as the freshmen made this the most balanced team I have ever had."

Women's Basketball

March 8, 2009

Coach Frese wins her first conference championship with an OT victory over Duke in Greensboro.

Using the tip in a pep talk by former Terrapins football star LaMont Jordan, Maryland's players converged at midcourt before the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game Sunday and started to scuff the league logo.

"He said every time he went into New York he always went to the 50-yard line and marked his territory," senior guard Kristi Toliver said. "So that's what we were kind of doing in North Carolina."

After knocking off four-time defending champion North Carolina and rival Duke on consecutive days, Tobacco Road -- and the ACC -- belong to the fourth-ranked Terrapins.

Marissa Coleman had 28 points and 15 rebounds, Toliver added 24 points and Maryland captured its first ACC title in 20 years with a 92-89 overtime victory over Duke (No. 10 ESPN/USA Today, No. 8 AP) on Sunday.

Women's Lacrosse

May 30, 2010

After winning four NCAA titles as a student-athlete Cathy Reese earned her first as Maryland’s head coach.

The Maryland women's lacrosse team defeated No. 2 Northwestern, 13-11, for its first NCAA Championship since 2001 and nation-leading 10th overall in front of a record-breaking crowd of 9,782 Sunday at Unitas Stadium.

Tournament Most Outstanding Player Caitlyn McFadden scored two goals, added an assist and, most importantly, shut down All-American attacker Katrina Dowd, who was held without a goal after racking up 77 heading into Sunday's showdown. The Terps snapped Northwestern's streak of five-consecutive national titles. Maryland was led in scoring by junior Sarah Mollison, sophomore Karri Ellen Johnson and freshman Katie Schwarzmann, who all tallied three goals apiece.

"I'm just really soaking it all in; what an amazing night for the Terps,¨ head coach Cathy Reese, who has now won eight national championships at Maryland - four as a player, three as an assistant, and one as a head coach, said. "I'm so proud of this 2010 team. The heart and the fight they displayed were outstanding. I think they showed such great composure and such great poise and just played a great game to fight back from that.¨

Joining McFadden on the all-tournament team were Johnson, Mollison, Schwarzmann and Karissa Taylor.

Field Hockey

November 21, 2010

Megan Frazer scored in the 98th minute to give Maryland its second NCAA championship in three seasons.

The Maryland field hockey team beat No. 2 North Carolina 3-2 in double overtime Sunday afternoon in front of over 2300 fans at the Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex for the 2010 NCAA national championship. Sophomore Megan Frazer scored the game-winning goal in the game's 98th minute for the crown.

With the win, the Terps claimed the program's seventh national title and sixth under head coach Missy Meharg. Maryland has won four of the last six titles (2005, 2006, 2008, 2010).

"This is a fantastic result in a really exciting game," Meharg said. Just some great athletes at the end there, 14 of them just gutting it out to become national champions. It was a great North Carolina team as always, just a really fitting finish for us."

Senior Katie O'Donnell, junior Lauren Barr, sophomore Harriet Tibble and Frazer were all named to the NCAA All-Tournament team.

Field Hockey

November 20, 2011

The Terrapins won back-to-back NCAA Championships, coming back from being down 2-0 with less than 4 minutes to play to win it 3-2 in OT.

The fourth-ranked Maryland field hockey team (19-4) came back from a two-goal deficit with less than four minutes remaining in regulation to top No. 1 North Carolina, 3-2, in overtime for its eighth national title and fifth in seven years.

Freshman Katie Gerzabek scored the first Terrapin goal in the 67th minute, senior Jemma Buckley ripped in the equalizer with no time on the clock in regulation, and sophomore Jill Witmer netted the game-winner in the 81st minute for the Terps' fifth NCAA crown in seven years (2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011).

Since the NCAA began seeding the top four teams in the Tournament in 2002, the Terps are the first unseeded team to win a title. They beat the top three teams (Syracuse, Old Dominion, North Carolina) in order, en route to their repeat crown.

"Can't say enough what an amazing team North Carolina (23-2) is and they have been all year," head coach Missy Meharg said. "They were so far above us in the first half and at halftime, we just spoke about competing and playing with intangibles. We couldn't be more proud of the Maryland team."

25 for 25: The Top Moments of the Last 25 Years … so far

Men's Basketball - 2001 Final Four
Women's Lacrosse - 2001 NCAA Championship
Football - 2001 ACC Championship
Men's Basketball - 2002 NCAA Championship
Volleyball - 2003-05 ACC Championships
Men's Basketball - 2004 ACC Championship
Field Hockey - 2005 & 2006 NCAA Championships
Men's Soccer - 2005 NCAA Championship
Women's Basketball - 2006 NCAA Championship
Field Hockey - 2008 NCAA Championship
Men's Soccer - 2008 NCAA Championship
Women's Basketball - 2009 ACC Championship
Women's Lacrosse - 2010 NCAA Championship
Field Hockey - 2010 NCAA Championship
Field Hockey - 2011 NCAA Championship