Jen Adams still remembers the first team meeting after she and Cathy Reese returned to College Park to lead the Maryland women’s lacrosse program.
The pair had spent the previous three years coaching at Denver, and Reese brought Adams with her to be her associate head coach and help revive their alma mater. Reese and Adams’s Maryland careers spanned from 1995-2001, when Maryland was nearly unbeatable. The Terps went 140-5, winning the national championship each year.
But the program Reese and Adams took over wasn’t at the same level. Maryland had gone just 68-34 the previous five years, including back-to-back first-round exits in the NCAA Tournament in 2005 and 2006.