Whether it was simply walking around campus, being honored in front of a raucous crowd at a football game or receiving congratulations from President Donald Trump at the White House, the Maryland men’s lacrosse team has had to balance the satisfaction of breaking a 42-year national championship drought and wiping the slate clean to start all over again this season.
“It’s been hard for them. This program means so much to so many people,” head coach John Tillman said Tuesday at spring sports media day. “We weren’t going to take those opportunities away from them, [and] we wanted to share what happened last year with Terp nation because we felt like there were a lot of people that were a part of that.