Terps women take the big three ACC honors
Maryland won all three Atlantic Coast Conference women's lacrosse individual honors as Catilyn McFadden was named Player of the Year, Katie Schwarzmann, Freshman of the Year, and Cathy Reese shared Coach of the Year.
McFadden snared Player of the Year honors for a second straight season, adding to a superb resume that also includes national Midfielder of the Year in 2009 and two selections each as a Tewaaraton Trophy finalist, an All-American and the ACC Tournament MVP. The Notre Dame Prep graduate, a senior midfielder who played on the gold-medal winning U.S. World Cup team last summer, has scored at least one point in 44 straight games, the nation's 11th longest active streak.
Schwarzmann, last season's All-Metro Player of the Year from Century, earned a starting spot on a loaded Terps team and ranks fourth on the team in scoring. She has scored three game-winning goals and also plays a big role on a defense that allows just 6.68 goals per game.
Reese, a Mount Hebron graduate, earned a share of Coach of the Year honors for the third time in her four-year Terps career. She shared the award this season with North Carolina's Jenny Levy, a Roland Park graduate. Reese's record at Maryland stands at 78-9 and she has the Terps opening the NCAA Tournament as the No. 1 seed for the first time since Maryland won the last of seven straight titles in 2001 -- with Reese in the lineup.
The Terps are used to reeling in the ACC accolades as Dana Dobbie won two straight Player of the Year awards just before McFadden and Karri Ellen Johnson (Broadneck) was last season's Freshman of the Year. McFadden is the third player in ACC history to win the award twice after Maryland's Jen Adams (2000, 2001), Duke's Katie Chrest (Maryvale; 2005, 2006) and Dobbie (2007, 2008).
Categories: Maryland, Women's lacrosse
