Edward Lee covers college lacrosse, football and basketball for The Baltimore Sun. Since joining The Sun in 1995, he has also covered the Ravens, the Washington Redskins and high school sports. Edward grew up in New Jersey and graduated from the University of Maryland.
After six years as the men’s basketball coach at Division III Johns Hopkins, including three conference tournament championships, Josh Loeffler resigned to fill an assistant coaching position at Division I Cincinnati.
After qualifying for the College World Series, both the Salisbury baseball and softball teams have an opportunity to capture national championships in the same season, which only Eastern Connecticut State has done in 1982 and 1990.
Johns Hopkins baseball has never won an NCAA championship, but the Blue Jays are the top seed in this year's Division III College World Series, and coach Bob Babb believes this is the deepest team he's had in 44 years at the helm.
Ed Kelly, who grew up in the Irvington neighborhood of Baltimore and wrestled at Mount Saint Joseph and Loyola College, was a wrestling official for 27 years. He's set to be inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.
Isabella Peterson, a Sparks resident and Hereford graduate, finished second among all Division I players in goals (91) and points (114) and earlier this month was named one of five finalists for the Tewaaraton Award, college lacrosse’s version of the Heisman Trophy.
Third-seeded Notre Dame, which had lost to Duke in the 2010 and 2014 championship games, finally broke through Monday and beat the top-seeded Blue Devils, 13-9, behind an all-around effort to win its first NCAA men's lacrosse title.
Salisbury captured its 13th national championship — tying the NCAA Division III record set by the aforementioned Statesmen in 1993 — by upending Tufts, 17-12, in a tournament final Sunday before an announced 15,525 at Lincoln Financial Field.
Notre Dame men's lacrosse scored three of the last four goals in regulation and the game-winner in overtime to upset Virginia, 13-12, and advance to the NCAA final for the first time since 2014.
After transferring from Johns Hopkins in 2021, Evan Zinn has focused on developing into a starting short-stick defensive midfielder and is enjoying a career year. He will seek to help Virginia capture its eighth NCAA championship this weekend.
Samantha Heyison, an Adamstown resident and Urbana High senior, is the reigning Class 4A state champion in the discus and is a U.S. Paralympics national titlist in the discus and shot put.