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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 197...
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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Terps rewind: N.C. State 38, Maryland 31
Replay Torrey Smith needed one kickoff return touchdown to set the Maryland career record with three. He got it on an 82-yard return that cut North Carolina State's lead to 31-28 with 10:09 left in the third quarter. Erase Maryland quarterback Chris...Tags: Virginia Tech
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UM field hockey team rallies to win ACC tournament in OT
The top-seeded Maryland field hockey team battled back from an early two-goal deficit to beat third seed Virginia, 3-2, in overtime Sunday to win the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament in Charlottesville, Va. The Terps claimed their eighth ACC...Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, Field Hockey, Multi-Sport Events
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Terps outlast Wake Forest, 3-2, to advance to ACC final
The top-seeded Maryland field hockey team defeated fourth seed Wake Forest, 3-2, Friday in Charlottesville, Va., to advance to the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament final for the second straight year. The Terrapins will face the winner of Friday's...Tags: Charlottesville (Charlottesville, Virginia)
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Maryland playing for present and future
RALEIGH, N.C. - Maryland football coaches concede they're facing a "dilemma" in resolving competing goals for the last four games of a trying season in which the Terrapins have yet to win a game on the road.
Maryland coach Ralph Friedgen said he knows he...Tags: Hartford Wolf Pack, Boomer Esiason, Teaching and Learning, Ralph Friedgen, Florida State University
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Terps' dismal season continues with loss
- Maryland coach Ralph Friedgen saw a rainbow at practice last week, desperately hoping it was a positive sign for a team he said has been rained on all season, both in a literal and metaphorical sense.
Sure enough, the skies were bright blue over...Tags: Clothing and Textiles Industry, Hartford Wolf Pack, Tropical Weather, Ralph Friedgen, Virginia Tech
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Terps' dismal season continues with loss to Wolfpack
Maryland coach Ralph Friedgen saw a rainbow at practice last week, desperately hoping it was a positive sign for a team he said has been rained on all season, both in a literal and metaphorical sense.
Sure enough, the skies were bright blue over Carter-...Tags: Hartford Wolf Pack, Ralph Friedgen
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Russell Wilson's 4 touchdowns lift North Carolina State past Maryland 38-31
AP Sports WriterRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Russell Wilson threw three touchdowns and ran for another, and North Carolina State snapped a four-game losing streak by holding off Maryland 38-31 on Saturday in a matchup of the ACC Atlantic Division's worst teams. Wilson was...Tags: Hartford Wolf Pack
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Terps fans restless over coach-in-waiting
When a Division I college football team struggles, the most vocal portion of the fan base tends to make itself heard.
That's the case at Maryland, where coach Ralph Friedgen and his staff have been a target of criticism in blogs and on message boards...Tags: Tampa Bay Buccaneers, NFL, Ralph Friedgen, Florida State University, National Government
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Hawkins' 20 lead way in Terps' exhibition opener
The Washington PostTianna Hawkins was a little nervous as she sat on the bench at the start of Maryland's first exhibition game on Wednesday night. But once the freshman forward took the floor against Bowie State, she looked calm and confident. Hawkins made her first six...Tags: Comcast Center, The Washington Post, Teaching and Learning
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Terps field hockey team can live with being unbeaten but ignored
- They play to empty seats, rattle to road games by bus and walk the campus with none of the strut befitting national champions. Meet Maryland's top-ranked field hockey team: undefeated, undeterred and largely unheralded in its own backyard. Not that it...Tags: Field Hockey, Ozzy Osbourne, Colleges and Universities
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NCAA women's tourney back at Comcast Center in 2011
The University of Maryland has been selected as a first- and second-round site for the 2011 NCAA women's basketball tournament. The Terps are 5-1 in NCAA tournament games at Comcast Center, winning four in a row to earn trips to the Sweet 16 each of the...Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, Comcast Center, NCAA Final Four, ESPN, Florida State University
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Maryland pumped for exhibition Tuesday
After a series of intrasquad scrimmages, Maryland's basketball team finally plays tonight against somebody other than itself.
The exhibition game against Indiana University of Pennsylvania at Comcast Center gives Terps fans their first opportunity to...Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, Comcast Center, Teaching and Learning, Florida State University, Gary Williams
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