No. 6 Maryland (1-0, 0-0 B1G) vs. No. 13 Virginia (0-2, 0-0 ACC)
February 14, 2025
12:00 PM
SECU Stadium
B1G+
COLLEGE PARK, MD — Maryland opens its 2026 residence season with a matchup towards No. 13 Virginia at SECU Stadium at 12 p.m. The sport will air on B1G+.
The Terrapins final confronted Virginia a 12 months in the past, falling 13–9 at Notre Dame Preparatory School in Baltimore. The sport served as Maryland’s One Love sport. Founded in 2010 to honor the reminiscence of former Virginia ladies’s lacrosse participant Yeardley Love, the One Love Foundation is a nationwide nonprofit group devoted to educating, empowering, and activating younger folks to finish relationship violence and promote wholesome relationships.
Where We’ve Been
- Maryland opened the season with a street win towards No. 13 Syracuse, 9-5 final Friday.
- Sixteen saves from (*13*) and a five-goal efficiency from Lauren Lapointe paved the way in which because the Terps improved to 18-2 in season openers underneath Cathy Reese.
- Defense was king for Maryland throughout the first sport. The Terps held the ranked Orange scoreless within the first quarter and grabbed 11 floor balls within the win. Maddy Sterling led the cost, selecting up three floor balls because the Suriano and the Terps stood sturdy. Maryland pressured a pair of shot-clock violations within the win.
Maryland earned their first victory of the 2026 season with a street victory at Syracuse.
defensive participant of the week
- (*13*) was named the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week and the IWLCA Defensive Player of the Week.
- The junior goalkeeper opened the season with a standout efficiency towards No. 13 Syracuse, posting a .762 save share within the Terps’ street victory. Suriano held the Orange scoreless within the first quarter and recorded 16 saves on 21 photographs confronted, permitting simply 5 targets within the win.
- Last season, Suriano began all 21 video games final season in her first 12 months within the cage. She was named to the 2025 All-Big Ten Tournament Team and earned 2025 Inside Lacrosse All-American Honorable Mention honors. Suriano posted a 9.61 goals-against common and recorded 180 saves on the season.
(*13*) was named the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week for the primary time in her profession.
tewaaraton watch record
- Kori Edmondson, Kayla Gilmore and (*13*) have been named to the preliminary Tewaaraton Watch List, as introduced by the Tewaaraton Foundation.
- Edmondson returns to College Park for her closing 12 months. Edmondson earned First Team honors and preseason All-American honors by USA Lacrosse and Inside Lacrosse.
- Edmondson was named the Big Ten Midfielder of the Year final season and was a 2025 Tewaaraton Top 25 finalist. She earned unanimous All-Big Ten First Team honors and led the Terrapins’ offense throughout a standout season. Edmondson tallied 65 factors, together with 54 targets, and was named Big Ten Midfielder of the Week 5 instances. She concluded the 12 months with All-American honors from USA Lacrosse, the IWLCA, and Inside Lacrosse.
- The junior goalkeeper opened the season with a standout efficiency towards No. 13 Syracuse, posting a .762 save share within the Terps’ street victory. Suriano held the Orange scoreless within the first quarter and recorded 16 saves on 21 photographs confronted, permitting simply 5 targets within the win.
- Gilmore enters her sophomore season after being named Big Ten Freshman of the Year in 2025. She made a direct influence for the Terps, recording 14 targets and 9 assists, whereas taking part in a key function within the draw circle with 73 draw controls. Gilmore earned All-Big Ten Second Team honors, was named to the inaugural All-Freshman Team, and was ranked the No. 7 freshman nationally by Inside Lacrosse.
- Maryland has received eight of the final 13 Tewaaraton awards, with Megan Taylor changing into the primary goalie in lacrosse historical past to win the award in 2019. Before that, Zoe Stukenberg took residence the distinguished award in 2017, Taylor Cummings received three straight from 2014-16 and Katie Schwarzmann turned the primary two-time winner for Maryland in 2012-13. Caitlyn McFadden began the eight-for-13 streak for Maryland, garnering the award in 2010. Jen Adams received the inaugural Tewaaraton in 2001.
- In the 19 years of the award, Maryland has received 9 instances, probably the most of any faculty and has had 26 finalists, together with at the least one in 16-of-17 seasons underneath head coach Cathy Reese. Most just lately, Aurora Cordingley was named a finalist in 2022, the place she totaled 118 factors (67 targets, 51 assists).
Kayla Gilmore was named to the Tewaaraton Watch List for the primary time in her profession.
Edmondson Moving Up The Charts
- With one help within the 2026 season opener, Kori Edmondson strikes up to forty fourth place in Maryland ladies’s lacrosse historical past all-time profession factors record.
- Kori Edmondson recorded her one centesimal profession aim towards No. 3 Northwestern final season.
Edmonson on Maryland’s Career Points List
- Kay Ruffino (1982-85) – 164
- Sandy Lanahan (1979-81) – 163
- Edmondson (2023-pres.) – 159
- Carin Peterson (1986-88) – 156
- Annie Collins (2001-05) – 156
- Edmondson can be working her manner up the all-time targets record. She is now solely two behind present Head Coach Cathy Reese (1995-98) from transferring contained in the top-29.
Edmondson on Maryland’s Career Goal List
- Courtney Hobbs (1999-98) – 149
- Caitlyn McFadden (2007-10) – 149
- Judy Dougherty (1978-81) – 143
- Alex Aust (2010-13) – 143
- Cathy Reese (1995-98) – 140
- Kori Edmondson (2023-pres.) – 138
- Karen Trudel (1982-85) – 135
Scouting the Cavaliers
- No. 13 Virginia will head to College Park after beginning the season 0-2.
- Offensively, Gabby LaVerghetta leads the way in which for the Cavaliers, main the staff in targets with 4. Madison Alaimo is the highest feeder for the Cavaliers offense with 7 assists.
- In aim, Mel Josephson anchors the Virginia protection. This season she has a 15.00 GAA and a .375 save share.
- This marks the 63rd assembly between Maryland and Virginia. The Terps have traditionally managed the sequence, main 45-18 over the previous 48 years. The two groups first met in 1978, with Maryland incomes a 14-1 victory
Dominance Under Reese
- Head Coach Cathy Reese is in her nineteenth season on the helm of Maryland ladies’s lacrosse. The winningest coach in program historical past, Reese is 348-53 (.868) as head coach and has led the Terps to 5 National Championships, 12 Final Fours, and 22 Conference Championships.
- Reese is the fifth all-time winningest energetic head coach and the sixth-winningest coach of all-time in Division 1 ladies’s lacrosse at 377-82 (.821). Former Maryland head coach Cindy Timchal is the all-time winningest ladies’s lacrosse coach with 580 wins.
- Reese has the best profitable share of any present Maryland head coach as a Terrapin head coach.
- Cathy Reese (WLax): 348-53 (.868)
- Missy Meharg (FH): 665-180-9 (.784)
- Brenda Frese (WBB): 626-175 (.782)
- John Tillman (MLax): 196-56 (.778)
- Sasho Cirovski (MSoc): 451-180-76 (.692)
- Maryland is 178-12 (.936) at residence underneath Reese, with eight undefeated residence campaigns within the final 11 seasons (2013, ’14, ’15, ’16, ’17, ’18, ’19, ’21).
Cathy Reese is the fifth all-time winningest energetic head coach and the seventh-winningest coach all-time in Division 1 ladies’s lacrosse at 377-82.
winningest program in ladies’s lacrosse
- Maryland is the winningest program in ladies’s lacrosse, presently standing with a 804-168-3 document all-time. The Terps have received 82.9-percent of their video games all time, additionally the best profitable share of all-time. With a win towards No.8 Johns Hopkins, 13-11, in its common season finale on Saturday. This was Maryland’s 800th program win, probably the most by any ladies’s faculty lacrosse program.
- Maryland: 804-168-3 (.826)
- Loyola (MD): 601-290-8 (.673)
- Penn State: 593-316-5 (.652)
- Virginia: 589-276-5 (.680)
- James Madison*: 572-341-3 (.626)
- * contains 3 seasons at D-II and 5 seasons undefined at stats.ncaa.org
- Head Coach Cathy Reese is the fifth all-time winningest energetic head coach and the seventh-winningest coach of all-time in Division 1 ladies’s lacrosse at 376-82. Former Maryland head coach Cindy Timchal is the all-time winningest ladies’s lacrosse coach with 593 wins.
- Cindy Timchal (NU, Maryland, Navy): 594-167 (.781)
- Jenny Levy (North Carolina): 444-130 (.774)
- Amanda O’Leary (Yale, Florida): 422-128 (.767)
- Kelly Amonte Hiller (Northwestern): 389-95 (.804)
- Cathy Reese (Denver, Maryland): 377-82 (.821)
(*6*)
Maryland celebrates capping an ideal 23-0 season in 2017 with this system’s 15 nationwide championship.