COLLEGE PARK, MD – The University of Maryland girls’s lacrosse crew started apply on Monday, January 12 forward of the 2026 season.
The Terps will open the season on the highway, touring to face Syracuse within the Dome on Feb. 6. Last season, Syracuse defeated Maryland in College Park in a top-10 matchup to open the season.
Maryland will then host its first house sport of the 12 months in opposition to Virginia on Feb. 14. The two groups final met in the course of the 2025 One Love sport at Notre Dame Preparatory School. The One Love sport was based in 2010 to honor the reminiscence of former Virginia girls’s lacrosse student-athlete Yeardley Love.
Maryland can be led by key All-American returners Kori Edmondson, Neve O’Ferrall, Kayla Gilmore, JJ Suriano, and Kennedy Major. Edmondson is coming off a standout junior season by which she was named the 2025 Big Ten Midfielder of the Year and a Tewaaraton Award Top-25 finalist.
The Terps additionally welcome three transfers to College Park. Maryland native Keeley Block joins this system after 4 seasons at Penn. Block earned 2025 Second Team All-Ivy and Second Team IWLCA All-Region honors after beginning 19 video games and recording 42 objectives final season.
Graduate switch Kristen Shanahan joins the Terps after taking part in at Notre Dame. A crew captain for the Irish in 2025, Shannahan began 14 video games and completed second on the crew with 27 objectives and 41 factors.
Senior goalkeeper Caitlin Boden joins the Terps after three seasons at James Madison. Boden completed her JMU profession ranked fifth in program historical past in saves (196) and nineteenth in save proportion (.438).
Maryland additionally welcomes 9 freshmen to College Park, led by Ava Meyn and Sofia Herrera, who have been each named to the Inside Lacrosse Freshman Power 100. Meyn was ranked No. 7, whereas Herrera checked in at No. 37. Meyn was additionally named USA Lacrosse Northeast Player of the Year.
The crew will open the season taking part in at SECU Stadium. Stay tuned for particulars of after we’ll return to the ‘Plex.
Single‑sport tickets for the 2026 season can be introduced quickly. Fans thinking about attending a number of house occasions can now buy a Maryland Athletics Pride Pass for $59. The Pride Pass is an all‑Olympic sports activities season ticket that grants entry to all common‑season house contests for wrestling, baseball, males’s lacrosse, and ladies’s lacrosse in the course of the 2025‑26 season.