University of Maryland Athletics

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The No. 2 Maryland women's lacrosse team travels to Blacksburg on Sunday, April 22 to face the Hokies at the Virginia Tech Lacrosse Stadium. With a Maryland win, the Terrapins will clinch the No. 1 seed in the upcoming ACC Tournament for the first time since 2003.

Terps Wrap Up ACC Slate At Virginia Tech
• The No. 2 Maryland women's lacrosse team looks to bounce back from its first loss since March 13 when it takes on Virginia Tech on April 22 at noon at the Virginia Tech Lacrosse Stadium.
• The Terrapins lost their last outing to No. 1 Northwestern, the two-time defending national champion, 12-7, in Evanston.
• Maryland leads the all-time series against the Hokies, 3-0.
• Last year, the Terps beat Virginia Tech 18-9 in College Park. Junior Kelly Kasper had a career day against the Hokies last season with five goals, four assists, and nine points. Those are still her career highs. Senior Krista Pellizzi racked up career highs with five goals, three assists, and eight points.
• Junior Casey Magor recorded a pair of goals and assists in the win.

Maryland To Support Virginia Tech
• Maryland, in conjunction with the Atlantic Coast Conference office and member institutions, is showing support for friends and family of Virginia Tech who were victimized Monday by the deaths of more than 30 students and faculty on the Hokie campus.
• Terps student-athletes will be issued orange and maroon ribbons for the ACC Men's and Women's Track and Field Championships which began Thursday at the Kehoe Track Complex at the University of Maryland. Ribbons will also be distributed to each school during the track and field competition.
• In addition, the women's lacrosse team will support the Hokies by wearing special t-shirts during pre-game warm ups on Sunday. The shirts will don the Virginia tech logo on the front with the word "strength" on the back. The Terps will also give t-shirts to the Hokies to show their support.
• The Maryland softball team will also compete in Blacksburg this weekend as they begin a doubleheader on Saturday at noon and then finish the series with a game on Sunday.

Maryland Loses Battle Of 1-2
• The Northwestern defense held Maryland to just two second half goals, including a stretch of 23:02, as the No. 1 Wildcats defeated the No. 2 Terrapins, 12-7, on April 16 in a game between the nation's top teams. The loss was the first for the Terps (13-2) in the last nine games while Northwestern (11-1) improved its winning streak to 11 games.
• Juniors Dana Dobbie and Lauren Cohen both scored a pair of goals in the win while senior Krista Pellizzi added a goal and an assist. She also secured four draw controls.

Terps Sport Third Best Offense In The Nation
• Maryland's high powered offense currently ranks third in the nation with 15.64 goals per game. Denver ranks second in the country at 15.87 goals per outing. Cathy Reese and Jen Adams were at Denver prior to coming to Maryland in August of 2006.
• The Terps are also in the top 10 in several other categories as they are third in the nation in draw controls (14.79) and fifth in scoring margin (+5.86).
• Junior Dana Dobbie ranks in two different categories as she is fourth in draws (3.79) and 21st in goals (2.93).
• Junior Katie Princiotto is 23rd in the country with 1.64 assists per game.
• Junior Allie Buote ranks 16th in the nation in goals against average (9.58) and 25th in save percentage (.487).

Scouting The Hokies
• Virginia Tech enters the game with a 5-10 overall record and is winless in the ACC at 0-4. All of their wins have come against unranked opponents.
• Kady McBrearty leads the Hokies with 24 goals, 18 assists, and 42 points. She has also recorded 19 ground balls and 18 draw controls.
• Britt Faulkner has also scored 24 times while Lindsay Peiper has found the back of the net 23 times. Pieper also leads the team with 33 draw controls.
• Jenna Reich and Rachel Culp have both racked up 22 goals.
• Kari Morrison is the starter in goal for Virginia Tech. She saves 43 percent of the shots she faces and allows 13.51 goals per outing.

Dobbie, Kasper Named Tewaaraton Trophy Nominees
• Juniors Dana Dobbie and Kelly Kasper have both been named nominees for the 2007 Tewaaraton Trophy. The Terrapins are two of 17 nominees which will be trimmed down to five finalists. The winner will be announced at the Awards Banquet on May 30.
• Dobbie, a transfer from Ohio and a native of Guelph, Ontario, has made a huge impact in her first season in College Park. She leads the team with 43 goals and is second with 54 points. She is currently fourth in the nation in draw controls, securing 3.79 per game and 55 in all. She is also 21st in the country with 2.93 goals per outing.
• Dobbie is also tied for the team lead with 32 ground balls and her 19 caused turnovers are third. She has been credited with four game-winning goals, also best on the team.
• Kasper has been a mainstay in the Maryland midfield the last two seasons, starting every game she has played in. This season, she has racked up 17 goals and her 18 assists rank second on the team.
• The Eldersburg product is a force in every stat category as she leads the team with 23 caused turnovers and is tied for third with 23 draw controls. Kasper has also secured 17 ground balls.

First Half Dominance
• The Terps own a 226-149 advantage in scoring through the first 15 games of the season, but the first half has been something special.
• Maryland owns a 130-64 advantage in goals in the first half this season.
• In the season-opener at UMBC on February 19, Maryland jumped out to a 15-3 lead in the first half.
• The Terps did much of the same against Boston College (February 24) and Richmond (March 7) as they outscored the Eagles, 10-3, and the Spiders, 10-2, in the opening frame.
• Against Johns Hopkins on March 21, Maryland jumped out to a 14-7 lead in the first half of play.
• Maryland used a 12-2 lead in the first half to take down Stanford, 15-7, on March 28.
• The Terps outgunned Georgetown to a 9-4 halftime lead on April 3. Maryland used that start to take the 14-10 win.
• Maryland scorched Ohio State for 10 first half goals as it took a 10-4 halftime lead and used it for a 19-12 win.
• The Terps jumped on Loyola in the first half on April 13 for a 12-1 lead at the half. Maryland went on to win 20-7.

1-2 Punch
• Maryland is 2-1 against teams ranked No. 1 or No. 2 this season.
• The Terrapins beat North Carolina, then No. 1, 8-6, on March 24 at Chevy Chase Bank Field at Byrd Stadium.
• The Terps held North Carolina to eight goals below their season average of 14 to get the win.
• Maryland won a wild one against the No. 2 Blue Devils back on March 3, 19-18. It was the first win for the Terps against the Blue Devils since 2003, a 9-8 overtime triumph in College Park, and it stopped a four-game skid against their ACC rival.
• Maryland fell short when it traveled to No. 1 Northwestern on April 16, 12-7.

Buote As It May
• Junior Allie Buote has been hot in the cage as of late, leading the Terps to eight straight wins prior to the loss at Northwestern and earning ACC Player of the Week honors on March 26. She was also tabbed the womenslacrosse.com Player of the Week.
• Buote saved 11 shots in Maryland's 15-7 win against Stanford on March 28, marking the third-straight game in which she notched over 10 saves. That was the best three-game streak of her career.
• On March 24 against No. 1 North Carolina, Buote came up with 13 saves and held the Tar Heels to eight goals below their season average in an 8-6 win.
• She came up with two game-saving stops in the last two minutes of the game as she kicked away a free position with 1:52 to go and then stopped a point-blank shot with 50 seconds left to keep the Heels at bay.
• Buote racked up a career-high 14 saves against No. 13 Johns Hopkins on March 21 in a 22-15 win and also stopped nine shots in Maryland's 13-7 win at No. 9 Dartmouth.
• She came up huge in a 10-9 win at No. 10 Penn State in the ACC/ALC Challenge as she saved 13 shots.
• She averaged 9.25 saves per game during the eight-game winning streak and saved 54 percent of the shots thrown at her.

Pellizzi Named ACC Player of Week For Second Time
• Senior Krista Pellizzi was named the ACC Player of the Week on April 9 for the second time this season. She racked up eight goals and four assists in Maryland's three wins two weeks ago.
• In the win at No. 7 Georgetown on April 3, Pellizzi scored a goal and assisted on three others, matching her career high. She also recorded five draw controls which was a season high and tied her personal best.
• For the fourth time this year, Pellizzi racked up five goals in a game, this time against Ohio State in the opener of the ACC/ALC Challenge. In Maryland's third win at No. 10 Penn State, Pellizzi scored the first two goals of the second half to ignite a four-goal run that gave Maryland a 9-6 lead after it had trailed at the half, 6-5. Maryland would never trail the rest of the way.
• Pellizzi has scored a goal in every game so far this season.
• She has recorded five goals and six points in four games this season: vs. Boston College (2/24), vs. Brown (3/10), vs. Stanford (3/28), and vs. Ohio State (4/6).

Drawn To Perfection
• Junior Dana Dobbie, a transfer from Ohio University, is off to an impressive start in College Park.
• The Canadian National Team member leads the team in goals (43) and is second in points (54).
• Dobbie, the 2005 national leader in draw controls, has accumulated 55 in 15 games this season. She is averaging 3.67 per game. She led the country in 2005 with 5.14 per contest.
• She has 29 more draw controls than anyone else on the team and accounts for 25 percent of the draws.
• Dobbie has scored six or more goals in three games this year: at UMBC (2/19), at Dartmouth (3/16), and vs. Johns Hopkins (3/21).
• Dobbie excelled at draws against the Retrievers on February 19 as she racked up 10 in all. That total matched the entire UMBC team.
• She also picked up a season-high 11 draw controls against No. 13 Johns Hopkins on March 21.
• Dobbie racked up a career high seven goals in the win against No. 9 Dartmouth on March 16. That was the most goals scored by a Maryland player since Kelly Coppedge did it against Johns Hopkins on April 12, 2003.
• Dobbie was added to the Tewaaraton Award Watch List on March 25 her outstanding play through the first half of the season.

A Little Help From Prince
• Junior Katie Princiotto has become a huge contributor on the offensive end in 2007. She has a team-best 23 assists in 15 games. Her 1.69 average is second in the ACC. She also has 16 goals and her 39 points are third on the team.
• Prior to this season, Princiotto had not recorded an assist in 29 contests.

Reese Tabbed US Lacrosse Coach of the Week
• Maryland women's lacrosse head coach Cathy Reese was named the US Lacrosse Coach of the Week on March 26.
• It was the second time Reese has earned the award which makes her the only coach this season, both on the men's and women's side, to garner the honor twice.
• Reese earned the award for Maryland's two wins against ranked opponents the week of March 18. The Terrapins opened the week with a 22-15 win against No. 13 Johns Hopkins on March 21. The Terps then knocked off previously unbeaten No. 1 North Carolina, 8-6, on March 24. The Terps held the Tar Heels to eight goals under their season average of 14.
• Reese was also tabbed US Lacrosse Coach of the Week on March 4 for Maryland's wild 19-18 win against Duke at Ludwig Field. It was the first win against the Blue Devils since 2003 and it also snapped Duke's 12-game road winning streak that dated back to 2005.

Notice: Newcomers Have Arrived
• With the absence of Maryland's top returning scorer in junior Kelly Kasper, the Terps found other ways to score as their newcomers made an immediate impact in the season opener at UMBC.
• Junior Dana Dobbie scored the first goal of the Cathy Reese era at the 27:39 point of the first half. It was also her first goal as a Terp. She finished the day with a game-high six goals.
• A trio of freshmen also got in on the act as Amanda Spinnenweber recorded four goals and two assists, Caitlyn McFadden notched a hat trick, and Ali Perkins notched a goal and dished out three assists.
• Dobbie leads the team with 43 goals, 55 draw controls, and is second with 54 points.
• McFadden leads all freshmen with 15 goals, 14 assists, 29 points, 18 caused turnovers, 23 ground balls, and 21 draw controls.
• Spinnenweber is second among freshmen with nine goals.

Record Setting Start
• Nobody was able to stop the Maryland offense through the first five games of the season.
• The Terrapins had accumulated 94 goals in five games, an 18.8-per-game average. Both of those numbers are the best offensive starts to any season in program history through five games.
• The previous record was 87 goals in 2000 under head coach Cindy Timchal.
• Maryland now has 226 goals through 15 games which is 30 behind the 256 goals the 2000 squad had.

Reese's Success at Maryland
• Head coach Cathy Reese is not new to the Maryland lacrosse world. In fact, she has been a vital part of the program's legacy. As a player and assistant coach from 1995-2003, Reese helped the Terps win seven national championships.
• Reese and the Terps did not lose a game in her freshman and sophomore seasons.
• In her eighth year on campus, Reese's record with Maryland is a staggering 182-21.

Reese Turns Denver Program Around
• Reese will look to do in College Park what she achieved in the Mile High City as Denver's head coach for three seasons. The Pioneers saw limited success prior to her arrival in 2004, but that all changed.
• Denver had one winning season since the program's inception in 1999 and in her third year at the helm, the Pioneers soared to new heights. Denver went 15-5 and won the regular season Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) title and advanced to the finals of the conference tournament.
• For her success, Reese was tabbed MPSF Coach of the Year. She also mentored the first Pioneer women's lacrosse student-athlete to All-America status.

Terps Win Two At ACC/ALC Challenge
• Maryland was the only team to win both of its games at the ACC/ALC Challenge this year hosted by Penn State. The Terps beat Ohio State, 19-12, on April 6 and then knocked off the No. 10 Nittany Lions, 10-9, on a last-minute goal from junior Dana Dobbie.
• Senior Krista Pellizzi scored five goals and assisted on another as the Terps defeated Ohio State in the first game of the challenge on April 6 at Holuba Hall. Pellizzi's five goals matched her career high and it is the fourth time this season she has reached that number.
• Maryland got goals from 11 different scorers in the game which was the most this season. Junior Kelly Kasper recorded two goals and two assists as did senior Katie Doolittle. Kasper also secured a game-best eight draw controls. Junior Katie Princiotto and freshman Amanda Spinnenweber both scored twice while juniors Casey Magor and Dobbie and senior Mollie Reese added a goal and an assist each.
• Against No. 10 Penn State, junior goalie Allie Buote and the Maryland defense held the Nittany Lions scoreless for the first 17:01 of the second half to build a 9-6 lead as the Terrapins won, 10-9. The Nittany Lions came back to tie the game, but with just over a minute remaining, Dobbie scored the game-winning goal.
• Dobbie led the team with two goals and an assist, while freshman Caitlyn McFadden notched a goal and a pair of assists. Doolittle added a goal and two assists, including Dobbie's game-winner. Pellizzi poured in two goals. Buote was spectacular in the cage, recording 12 saves.

Terps Get Past Georgetown, 14-10
• Junior Lauren Cohen recorded five points on four goals and an assist as the No. 3 Maryland women's lacrosse team defeated No. 7 Georgetown, 14-10, at the Multi-Sport Field on April 3. Classmate Kelly Kasper had a pair of goals and assists while senior Krista Pellizzi added a goal and three assists.
• Junior Casey Magor added a hat trick while junior Katie Princiotto had a goal and two assists. Junior Allie Buote recorded seven saves in the win.
• It was the first win against the Hoyas since April 7, 2004.

Trio Of Honors For Duke Win
• Head coach Cathy Reese was named the US Lacrosse Coach of the Week for the Terps' triumph against Duke on March 3.
• The Terrapins' 19-18 win was the first win against the Blue Devils since 2003 and it also snapped Duke's 12-game road winning streak that dated back to 2005. The 19 goals allowed by Duke are the most in the program's history.
• Junior Lauren Cohen was named the womenslacrosse.com Player of the Week for her career day as she recorded career highs with four goals and six points.
• Senior Becky Clipp was tabbed the womenslax.com Player of the Week for her caused turnover that sealed the win for Maryland. Clipp drew a charge on Duke's last possession to give the Terps the win.

Terps Outlast Duke In 19-18 Win
• Maryland and No. 2 Duke took part in a shootout on March 3 and it was the Terps who came away with a 19-18 victory.
• The Terrapins' offensive explosion is the most goals ever allowed by Duke in a game. The previous high was 18 which had been done three times. Most recently, Virginia scored 18 on the Blue Devils in 2002.
• Maryland also scored 18 goals against Duke in 2001.
• Junior Lauren Cohen had a career game as she set new personal bests with four goals and six points while her two assists matched her career high.
• Senior Krista Pellizzi continued her solid play with four goals and an assist while junior Dana Dobbie added a hat trick and eight draw controls.
• Junior Kelly Kasper was a force in all aspects of the game as she recorded two goals, an assist, five caused turnovers, three ground balls, and two draw controls.
• In all, seven Terps finished the game with multiple goals.

Maryland Runs Past No. 13 Johns Hopkins
• The Terrapins used their fast pace offense to get by No. 13 Johns Hopkins, 22-15, on March 21 at the Lacrosse & Field Hockey Complex.
• Four Terrapins established new career highs in the game led by junior Lauren Cohen who scored a career-high six goals and classmate Allie Buote who saved a personal-best 14 shots.
• Junior Dana Dobbie racked up a career-high nine points in the win on six goals and three assists, also a personal best. She recorded a season-high 11 draw controls in the game as well. Junior Casey Magor notched a career-high three goals and matched her best game of five points.
• Junior Kelly Kasper added two goals and three assists for the Terps while freshman Caitlyn McFadden had two goals and a helper. Junior Katie Doolittle posted a pair of goals and senior Krista Pellizzi had a goal and an assist.
• The win improved Maryland's record against the Blue Jays to 9-0 all-time.

Terps' Offense Explodes In Season Opener
• The Maryland attack could not be stopped on February 19 in its 23-8 rout of UMBC. The Terps notched 23 goals, which is the most since May 5, 2003 in a 26-6 win against Temple.
• The Terrapins scored 23 times on just 48 shots with 48 percent of their shots finding the back of the net.

Scoring Streaks
• Junior Kelly Kasper had an impressive scoring streak heading into the season as she notched a goal in all 20 games last season. She also caused a turnover in every contest in 2006. She found the back of the cage in 30 straight games going back to her freshman year in 2005. That streak ended at No. 7 Virginia on March 13.
• Junior Dana Dobbie has a few streaks going as she has notched a goal in every game so far this season and secured a draw contorl in all but one. She holds team highs for goals in a game (7) and draw controls in a game (11). Dobbie also has a ground ball and a caused turnover in all but two games.
• Senior Krista Pellizzi has also scored a goal in every contest this year.
• Freshman Caitlyn McFadden has recorded a point in every game this season.

Preseason Honors Handed Out
• Seniors Becky Clipp and Katie Doolittle and junior Kelly Kasper earned a pair of preseason accolades last week. All three were placed on the 2007 Preseason Tewaaraton Watch List. The Tewaaraton is given annually to the nation's top lacrosse student-athlete.
• Current associate head coach Jen Adams was the first-ever winner of the Tewaaraton back in 2001.
• Clipp and Kasper were also honored as second-team preseason All-Americans by Inside Lacrosse.
• Senior Krista Pellizzi and junior Dana Dobbie were the other Terrapins recognized by Inside Lacrosse as they were both put on the third team.