In 2025, Pace helped lead one of the best teams in the nation to an undefeated regular season that saw the Terps finish ranked No. 1 in the final regular season United Soccer Coaches Poll. Maryland won the Big Ten Regular Season Championship finishing with an 8-0-2 record in Big Ten play in 2025. The Terps only trailed for a total of 78 seconds throughout their entire undefeated regular season. Maryland led the nation in total assists with 60 while also finishing fifth in the nation in scoring offense with 2.37 goals per match. Defender Lasse Kelp was named First Team All-American and a MAC Hermann Trophy Semifinalist while also wining Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year. Laurin Mack was named Big Ten Goalkeeper of the Year as the Terps also had six student-athletes named to the All-Big Ten First Team.
In 2024, Pace helped lead Maryland to a return to the NCAA Tournament after not qualifying the year before. Maryland finished the season with a 9-6-5. The Terrapins were ranked in the top 25 for the majority if the season, and ranked as high as second during the season. The Terps went on a 12-game unbeaten run, with a record of 8-0-4 during the span. The streak was the longest such streak since the 2017 season, where the Terps started the season going unbeaten in their first 13 games. Senior center-back William Kulvik earned Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year honors, the first Maryland player since Alex Crognale in 2016 to receive the award.
In 2022, Pace helped lead Maryland to the Big Ten Regular Season title and a top-10 national ranking for the majority of the year. The Terps went 11-3-5, securing its 28th consecutive fall season with 10+ wins. The Terrapins have won three national titles since 2000, tied with Stanford and Indiana for the most in the nation in that span.
In 2021, Pace helped mentor six All-Big Ten selections, including Big Ten Midfielder of the Year Ben Bender and Big Ten Freshman of the Year Joshua Bolma. The Terps made their 21st consecutive NCAA Tournament, the second longest streak in the country.
In 2020, Pace and the Terps advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the 20th consecutive season. The Terps had four players named All-Big Ten selections and a program record 14 student-athletes placed on the Big Ten All-Academic Team. The Terps had two more players selected in the MLS SuperDraft in Ben and Matt Di Rosa.
In 2019, Pace helped a young Terps team advanced to the program's 19th straight NCAA Tournament. Maryland had six players named All-Big Ten selections, including first-team picks Johannes Bergmann and Eli Crognale, who went on to sign professional contracts in USL.
In his first season as an assistant, Pace helped lead the Terps to the 2018 National Championship, Maryland's first since 2008. He helped cultivate a Maryland back line that did not give up a goal in the entirety of the NCAA Tournament and featured All-American Donovan Pines. The Terps had four players (Dayne St. Clair, Chase Gasper, Andrew Samuels, Amar Sejdic) taken in the MLS SuperDraft, while Pines signed a homegrown deal with D.C. United. As the Terps' primary goalkeeper coach, Pace was key in the development of St. Clair, who emerged as one of the top keepers in the country in his final season.
As director of operations, Pace managed the Terps' budget, fundraising, travel logistics and team events. During his time as director of ops, Maryland won two Big Ten Regular Season titles and three Big Ten Tournament titles. Between 2012 and 2016 as a player and staff member, Pace played a role in five consecutive conference tournament championship squads (ACC and Big Ten).
After seeing action as a reserve defender as a freshman, Pace moved up top to the striker position where he shined in his final three seasons at Maryland. He finished his career with 13 goals, including a career-high six as a captain his senior year. Pace played an important role in back-to-back Atlantic Coast Conference championships in 2012 and 2013 and helped guide the Terps to the College Cup in each of his last two seasons at Maryland.
Pace won a pair of state championships with River Hill High School as a two-time Baltimore Sun First Team All-Met selection prior to his arrival to College Park. He earned a bachelor's degree in kinesiology from Maryland and recently received his MBA from UMUC.
Updated December 17, 2025
