Last season didn’t go quite as planned for Maryland women’s lacrosse.
After opening the season as the seventh-ranked team in the country, Maryland dropped its season opener on the road to Penn State. It was a pair of firsts for head coach Cathy Reese — with the Terps starting off at 0-1 for the first time during her historic tenure and losing their first-ever Big Ten regular season match.
Maryland seemed to be putting that one loss behind them after winning five in a row, but it then ran into All-American attacker Izzy Scane and Northwestern. The Wildcats had Maryland’s number twice, winning by a combined 23 goals in a two-game series.