Summary
The Terrapin is the mascot for the University of Maryland at College Park athletic department. Regularly referred to as the Terps, Maryland sponsors 27 Division I varsity sports. The Terrapins mascot is Testudo the Turtle. The school colors are red, black, gold and white the same colors as the Maryland state flag. Maryland's athletic director is Dr. Deborah Yow, a former women's college basketball coach at Kentucky and Florida. Some of the more recognizable faces in the Terrapins athletic department are head football coach and Maryland alumnus Ralph Friedgen, men's basketball coach Gary Williams (also an alum) and women's basketball coach Brenda Frese. Friedgen graduated from Maryland in 1970, worked as an...
The Terrapin is the mascot for the University of Maryland at College Park athletic department. Regularly referred to as the Terps, Maryland sponsors 27 Division I varsity sports. The Terrapins mascot is Testudo the Turtle. The school colors are red, black, gold and white the same colors as the Maryland state flag. Maryland's athletic director is Dr. Deborah Yow, a former women's college basketball coach at Kentucky and Florida. Some of the more recognizable faces in the Terrapins athletic department are head football coach and Maryland alumnus Ralph Friedgen, men's basketball coach Gary Williams (also an alum) and women's basketball coach Brenda Frese. Friedgen graduated from Maryland in 1970, worked as an assistant football coach for several years in the 1980s, and has been head coach since 2001. The Terrapins football team plays at Chevy Chase Bank Field at Byrd Stadium. Williams coached the Terrapins to the 2002 national championship, a team on the floor by players by Juan Dixon, Steve Blake, Lonny Baxter and Chris Wilcox. A 1968 Maryland graduate, Williams, like Friedgen, quickly turned around a losing program, putting together a streak of 11 consecutive NCAA tournament appearances from 1994-2004. Frese coached the Terrapins women's basketball team to the 2006 national championship. Both Terps basketball programs play their games at the Comcast Center, which was completed in 2002. Other traditionally strong Terrapins athletic teams are women's field hockey (five-time NCAA champions), men's lacrosse (two-time NCAA champions), women's lacrosse (nine-time NCAA champions) and men's soccer (two-time NCAA champions). While the Terps lack a true rival across all sports, several individual programs have developed rivalries over the years. Duke is considered Maryland's primary men's basketball rival, while Johns Hopkins has taken that role in men's lacrosse. West Virginia and Virginia are most frequently mentioned as football rivals, for geographic reasons as much as anything else.
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Davis selling Heels' revival
Sun ReporterMost coaches arrived for their Atlantic Coast Conference preseason football interviews this week wearing polo shirts or pullovers in their schools' colors. Not North Carolina's Butch Davis, who met the media wearing a pinstriped suit and sporting a...Tags: University of Miami, Sales, Super Bowl, Virginia Tech, Ralph Friedgen
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Davis aims for turnaround with Tar Heels
Sun reporterMost coaches arrived for their ACC preseason football interviews this week wearing polo shirts or pullovers in their schools' colors. Not North Carolina's Butch Davis, who met the media wearing a pin-striped suit and sporting a bulky, gold Super Bowl...Tags: University of Miami, Sales, Multi-Sport Events, Super Bowl, Ralph Friedgen
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In Johnson's view, his options open
Sun reporterPaul Johnson folds his arms and inhales. It's not that the former Navy coach is tired of answering questions from the media. Rather, it's one query that has exasperated him. How, Johnson was asked at least a half-dozen times yesterday during the Atlantic...Tags: Armed Forces, M&T Bank Stadium, Defense, Ralph Friedgen
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Terps fans in state of denial
The Life of KingsI've never been a big fan of recruiting stories, mostly because high school kids are probably the flakiest people on Earth. I know this because I used to be one. But I make it a point to read recruiting stories involving Maryland, in part because I used...Tags: Penn State Nittany Lions, International Boxing Federation
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Lions' recruiting march again cuts deep into Md.
Sun ReporterWhen Darrell Givens and Malcolm Willis of Charles County gave oral commitments to play football for Penn State, they knew they would have much work ahead of them. The first assignment for the two Lackey seniors: Get on their cell phones and try to lure...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Tom Green, Penn State Nittany Lions, Larry Johnson, Mike Farrell
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Q&A // Lauren Ahrens, Chapelgate Christian, softball
Chapelgate senior shortstop Lauren Ahrens, who has batted leadoff since the first game of her freshman year, has made her mark on the program as she enters the final few weeks of her high school career. She is its career leader in batting average (.410),...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Religious Texts, Family, Softball, Teaching and Learning
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Gulls, Terps seek tourney victories
Sun reporterOne statistic stands out from Salisbury's 18-7 regional championship victory over Catholic on Sunday: draw controls. Catholic won 17 of 27, an anomaly for the No. 1 Sea Gulls, who have used their advantage on draw controls to fuel a 22-0 season and their...Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association
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College lacrosse: The week ahead
Sun reporterNo. 5 Johns Hopkins (7-5) Coming up: @No. 13 Loyola, Saturday, 1 p.m. Comment: A win over the Greyhounds would likely seal a first-round NCAA tournament game at Homewood Field for the Blue Jays. Junior midfielder Austin Walker has nearly tripled his...Tags: Armed Forces, Defense, NCAA Tournament
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Va. women beat Terps, 10-9, in OT for ACC title
from Staff ReportsAshley McCulloch scored the game-winner with 3:08 left in overtime to lift No. 4 Virginia over No. 2 Maryland, 10-9, in the Atlantic Coast Conference title game in Charlottesville, Va., yesterday. The Cavaliers (14-3) have won three straight league...Tags: Ohio State University
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Terps fade in OT
Special to The SunMaryland executed a nearly perfect game plan against Virginia in yesterday's NCAA tournament quarterfinal, containing the Cavaliers' high-powered attack, winning most ground balls and controlling the majority of faceoffs. Maryland's offense, however,...Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, Memorial Stadium, Photography, NCAA Tournament
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