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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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Buying out Friedgen could be problem, UM officials say
- Two prominent officials in the state university system said Monday that the economy has placed the University of Maryland on sensitive ground as it decides whether to retain football coach Ralph Friedgen or buy out the remaining $4 million of his...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Minority Groups, Lawyers, Employment, Layoffs and Downsizing
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Cincinnati tops Vanderbilt at Maui Invitational
The Washington PostChaminade point guard Steven Bennett ran as fast as he could with the ball in his hands Monday in the opening round of the Maui Invitational. He treated each and every possession as a timed obstacle-course run, jetting left and right to avoid Maryland...Tags: Whole Foods Market, National Collegiate Athletic Association, The Associated Press
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Shannon Ryan's Top 25 in college basketball
Records through Sunday; previous ranking in parentheses. 1. Kansas (3-0): The Jayhawks scored their fewest points in a win since 2000 when they eked out a 57-55 victory against Memphis. (1) 2. Michigan State (4-0): Reintroducing Delvon Roe. After a...Tags: Teaching and Learning, University of Connecticut, Gampel Pavilion, Ohio State University, Ohio State Buckeyes
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Sean Mosley scores 19 points to lead No. 21 Maryland over Chaminade 79-51 in Maui Invitational
LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Sean Mosley scored 19 points, Eric Hayes added 12 and Landon Milbourne had 10 to help No. 21 Maryland beat Chaminade 79-51 on Monday night in the first round of the EA Sports Maui Invitational. The Terrapins (4-0) advanced to... -
Terps women ousted by UNC; Hopkins women move on
Maryland's run in the NCAA Division I women's soccer tournament ended in the round of 16 with a 1-0 loss to No. 1 seed North Carolina in Chapel Hill. The goal came in the 82nd minute when Carolina's Casey Nogueira converted a throw-in from Jessica...Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association
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Rack, Mississippi State shell Terps women, 84-55
Associated PressAlexis Rack was feeling it. The Mississippi State guard scored a career-high 43 points - tied for the fourth-best single-game total for a Bulldogs women's basketball player - to lead her 25th-ranked team to a convincing 84-55 win over Maryland on Sunday.... -
Maryland loses title game to N. Carolina in final seconds
Top-seeded Maryland lost the NCAA title game to third-seeded North Carolina, 3-2, on Danielle Forword's goal off a penalty corner with 11.7 seconds to play Sunday in Winston-Salem, N.C. The Tar Heels (20-2) earned their sixth NCAA championship and...Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, Ice Hockey
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Terps come up short vs. Seminoles
jeff.barker@baltsun.comThe negative numbers are accumulating for the Maryland Terrapins. Six straight losses. The first Terps team since 1997 to lose as many as nine games in a season. But the figures that seemed to haunt Maryland coach Ralph Friedgen on Saturday were 4...Tags: Virginia Tech, Florida State Seminoles, Florida State University, Bobby Bowden, Ralph Friedgen
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Terps' Friedgen won't talk about his status
- Ralph Friedgen declined to speculate about his future as Maryland football coach on Sunday - one week before he is expected to meet with athletic director Deborah Yow to assess his performance and the state of the football program.
Friedgen was asked...Tags: Florida State Seminoles, Philadelphia Eagles, Colleges and Universities, Contracts, Florida State University
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Rack, Miss. State shell Terps women
The Associated PressAlexis Rack was feeling it. The Mississippi State guard scored a career-high 43 points -- tied for the fourth-best single-game total for a Bulldogs women's basketball player -- to lead her 25th-ranked team to a convincing 84-55 win over Maryland on... -
Speculation about Friedgen's job after loss
Ralph Friedgen declined to speculate about his future as Maryland football coach on Sunday -- one week before he is expected to meet with athletic director Deborah Yow to assess his performance and the state of the football program.
Friedgen was asked...Tags: Virginia Tech, Florida State Seminoles, Colleges and Universities, Contracts, Florida State University
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Wujciak rumbles into record books
Credit Alex Wujciak with a school record and two of Maryland's biggest plays of the season. Both plays left the 255-pound linebacker gasping for breath. The Terps trailed 14-6 in the second quarter Saturday when Wujciak intercepted Florida State...Tags: Florida State Seminoles, Florida State University, Ralph Friedgen
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