With high expectations this year, Maryland field hockey kicks off its 2023 season this weekend in California. The Terps, ranked as the No. 3 team in the nation in the Penn Monto/National Field Hockey Coaches Association preseason poll, will play at Stanford, California and UC Davis.
Maryland has an opportunity to begin the season on a dominant note against three teams that struggled in 2022. Stanford is the only of the three teams the Terps will face that finished last year with a winning record (10-9). None of the three programs have ever defeated Maryland.