Maryland women’s soccer head coach Meg Ryan Nemzer took over the program — one that had not seen a conference win in two seasons — in December 2021.
“We are building a championship culture here” is the message that the Maryland native repeated during this past season, one in which the team finished 4-8-5.
Despite the losing record and once again failing to reach postseason play, the Terps notched a win over reigning Big Ten champion Michigan to snap a three-year drought in the conference, secured a positive result against a ranked team in No. 11 Georgetown for the first time since 2019 and recorded back-to-back wins in the Big Ten on the road to end the season, a feat they had yet to accomplish in their eight-year existence in the Big Ten.