No. 3 Maryland (9-0, 1-0) vs. USC (6-5, 0-3)
March 22, 2026
SECU Stadium
12:00 p.m.
B1G+
COLLEGE PARK, MD -- No. 3 Maryland women's lacrosse will host USC on Sunday, as the Trojans come to College Park with a 6–5 record. Maryland and USC are set to face off at 12 p.m. on Big Ten Plus.
Where We've Been
- Maryland enters Sunday with a 9–0 record, coming off a 15–9 win over Penn on Thursday night. The Terps opened the season with three ranked victories over No. 13 Syracuse, No. 12 Virginia, and No. 14 Princeton.
- Offensively, the Terps have been led by Kristen Shanahan and Lauren LaPointe, who have tallied 21 and 29 goals, respectively. Fourteen Terps have scored through nine games, and five players have recorded 15 or more points so far this season.
- Defensively, 2026 Tewaaraton Watch List member JJ Suriano has started strong in goal. The junior is 9–0 with 95 total saves, including 16 against No. 13 Syracuse and 13 against No. 12 Virginia. She currently ranks first in the conference in saves per game (10.56), total saves (95), and save percentage (.552), and she also leads the nation in save percentage.
lapointe's hot start
- Lauren LaPointe has had a stellar start to her junior season. Through nine games, she has already recorded 29 goals and 43 points, tying her total goal output from all of last season.
- Against Oregon, Lauren delivered a career performance, scoring a career-high six goals and tallying a career-high seven points to help Maryland earn its first-ever win in Eugene, 15–7.
- LaPointe has recorded four or more points in eight of the nine games so far this year.
tewaaraton watch list
- Kristen Shanahan was added to the Tewaaraton Award Watch List, as announced by the Tewaaraton Foundation in the first round of additions to the list.
- Shanahan has made an immediate impact in her first season with the Maryland Terrapins women's lacrosse. She is currently second on the team with 37 points and leads the team with 16 assists, while adding 21 goals. Her four goals against Georgetown Hoyas women's lacrosse helped Maryland erase a four-goal deficit. In her first home game with the Terps, she recorded a career-high six assists.
- Kori Edmondson, Kayla Gilmore and JJ Suriano were named to the initial Tewaaraton Watch List, as announced by the Tewaaraton Foundation before the season.
- Edmondson has been all over the field during her senior season and currently ranks third on the team with 31 points, including 24 goals and seven assists. Edmondson is also second on the team with 34 draw controls.
- JJ Suriano has had a stellar start to her junior season. She currently ranks first in the conference in saves-per-game (10.56), total saves (95), and save percentage (.552). Suriano currently ranks first in the country in save percentage.
- On Februrary 6, Suriano was named the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week and the IWLCA Defensive Player of the Week. She was also named to the Tewaaraton Watch List and earned a spot on the Big Ten Players to Watch List before the season.
- Kayla Gilmore leads the team with 59 draw controls and ranks third on the team with nine ground balls. In Thursday's 15–9 win over Penn, Gilmore recorded 10 draw controls and added a goal to help the Terps remain undefeated.
- Maryland has won eight of the last 13 Tewaaraton awards, with Megan Taylor becoming the first goalie in lacrosse history to win the award in 2019. Before that, Zoe Stukenberg took home the prestigious award in 2017, Taylor Cummings won three straight from 2014-16 and Katie Schwarzmann became the first two-time winner for Maryland in 2012-13. Caitlyn McFadden started the eight-for-13 streak for Maryland, garnering the award in 2010. Jen Adams won the inaugural Tewaaraton in 2001.
- In the 19 years of the award, Maryland has won nine times, the most of any school and has had 26 finalists, including at least one in 19-of-20 seasons under head coach Cathy Reese. Most recently, Aurora Cordingley was named a finalist in 2022, where she totaled 118 points (67 goals, 51 assists).
Kristen Shanahan was added to the Tewaaraton Watch List for the first time in her career.
Edmondson Moving Up The Charts
Kori Edmondson has recorded a point in 42 straight games dating back to May 10, 2024.
Dominance Under Reese
- Head Coach Cathy Reese is in her 20th season at the helm of Maryland women's lacrosse. The winningest coach in program history, Reese is 355-53 (.870) as head coach and has led the Terps to five National Championships, 12 Final Fours, and 22 Conference Championships.
- Reese is the fifth all-time winningest active head coach and the sixth-winningest coach of all-time in Division 1 women's lacrosse at 385-82 (.824). Former Maryland head coach Cindy Timchal is the all-time winningest women's lacrosse coach with 602 wins.
- Reese has the highest winning percentage of any current Maryland head coach as a Terrapin head coach.
- Cathy Reese (WLax): 355-53 (.870)
- Missy Meharg (FH): 665-180-9 (.784)
- Brenda Frese (WBB): 631-177 (.781)
- John Tillman (MLax): 198-59 (.770)
- Sasho Cirovski (MSoc): 451-180-76 (.692)
- Maryland is 182-12 (.936) at home under Reese, with eight undefeated home campaigns in the last 11 seasons (2013, '14, '15, '16, '17, '18, '19, '21).
Cathy Reese is the fifth all-time winningest active head coach and the seventh-winningest coach all-time in Division 1 women's lacrosse at 385-82.
winningest program in women's lacrosse
- Maryland is the winningest program in women's lacrosse, currently standing with a 812-168-3 record all-time. The Terps have won 82.8-percent of their games all time, also the highest winning percentage of all-time. With a win against No.8 Johns Hopkins, 13-11, in its regular season finale on Saturday. This was Maryland's 800th program win, the most by any women's college lacrosse program.
- Maryland: 812-168-3 (.828)
- Loyola (MD): 606-293-8 (.673)
- Penn State: 600-317-5 (.653)
- Virginia: 594-279-5 (.679)
- James Madison*: 575-344-3 (.625)
- * includes 3 seasons at D-II and 5 seasons undefined at stats.ncaa.org
- Head Coach Cathy Reese is the fifth all-time winningest active head coach and the seventh-winningest coach of all-time in Division 1 women's lacrosse at 385-82. Former Maryland head coach Cindy Timchal is the all-time winningest women's lacrosse coach with 602 wins.
- Cindy Timchal (NU, Maryland, Navy): 602-167 (.783)
- Jenny Levy (North Carolina): 451-130 (.776)
- Amanda O'Leary (Yale, Florida): 428-130 (.767)
- Kelly Amonte Hiller (Northwestern): 393-97 (.802)
- Cathy Reese (Denver, Maryland): 385-82 (.824)
Maryland celebrates capping a perfect 23-0 season in 2017 with the program's 15 national championship.
