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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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Taylor, Terp women look better in exhibition against Catholic
The Washington PostFor every great pass that freshman point guard Dara Taylor made in Maryland's first exhibition game last week, it seemed she made another one that whizzed out of bounds or off a teammate's hands. But in the Terrapins' second exhibition game on Tuesday...Tags: The Washington Post, Multi-Sport Events
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Loyola women to face W.Va. in NCAA soccer tournament
The Loyola women's soccer team, which is on a program-record 14-game unbeaten streak, will play West Virginia in the first round of the NCAA Women's Soccer College Cup at 3 p.m. Friday in Winston-Salem, N.C. The Greyhounds (15-4-3) won the Metro...Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning
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Clemson poised for Tampa trip
The Associated PressThe Clemson Tigers are so close to attaining a goal they never have reached, it's impossible for them not to notice. It's posted in a meeting room, No. 2 on the list of team goals: Win the Atlantic Division. All the 24th-ranked Tigers need are wins...Tags: Virginia Tech, Hartford Wolf Pack
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Maryland's quarterback situation up in the air vs. Va. Tech
The Associated PressMaryland's hopes of upsetting No. 20 Virginia Tech on Saturday might hinge on the play of sophomore quarterback Jamarr Robinson, who could receive his first career start in place of injured senior Chris Turner. Robinson played for the first time last...Tags: C.J. Brown, Virginia Tech, Ralph Friedgen, Hartford Wolf Pack
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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: Boomer Esiason, C.J. Brown, Ralph Friedgen, Hartford Wolf Pack, Teaching and Learning
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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: C.J. Brown, Tropical Weather, Virginia Tech, Ralph Friedgen, Hartford Wolf Pack
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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: Ralph Friedgen, Hartford Wolf Pack
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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: Ralph Friedgen, Philosophy, Government, ESPN, Dining and Drinking
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