Tar Heels & Terps Will Renew Rivalry Sunday

Sunday, February 24

College Park, Md.

Noon

North Carolina

Maryland

Olivia Ferrucci and UNC will meet Maryland on Sunday at noon.

February 20, 2019 | Women's Lacrosse

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TAR HEELS TO RENEW RIVALRY WITH TERRAPINS SUNDAY IN COLLEGE PARK
• North Carolina and Maryland will renew a familiar rivalry on Sunday afternoon when the third-ranked Tar Heels (IWLCA poll) visit the second-ranked Terrapins in College Park, Md.
• The Big Ten Network will televise the game live.
• Carolina (3-0) and Maryland (2-0) have continued to face each other on an annual basis even after the Terrapins left the Alantic Coast Conference prior to the 2015 season.
• Sunday will mark the seventh meeting in the series since the Terps joined the Big Ten in 2015.
• Carolina is coming off a pair of wins last weekend at home over High Point and East Carolina.
• The Tar Heels are ranked No. 3 in the IWLCA poll this week and are No. 2 in the Inside Lacrosse D1 Media Poll. Maryland is No. 2 and No. 3, respectively, in the same polls.

SERIES HISTORY VS. MARYLAND
• Maryland leads the all-time series with North Carolina, 25-14.
• The Tar Heels have won two of the last three meetings in the series. (the 2018 regular season in Chapel Hill and the 2016 NCAA championship game in Chester, Pa.).
• Last year, Carolina beat the Terps, 16-15, in an overtime thriller in Chapel Hill (see more details below).
• Two years ago, Maryland beat UNC, 13-10, in the regular season in College Park, Md. (see more details below).

LAST YEAR IN CHAPEL HILL:
TAR HEELS TOP TERPS IN OT, 16-15
• Marie McCool scored 43 seconds into overtime to lift seventh-ranked North Carolina to a 16-15 win over top-ranked Maryland on Feb. 24, 2018, in Chapel Hill.
• After freshman Emma Trenchard won the draw to start the extra period, fellow freshman Jamie Ortega dished to McCool, who scored the game-winner. McCool also assisted Ela Hazar's goal with 22 seconds remaining in the second half to tie the game at 15-all. Carolina overcame a two-goal deficit in the final four minutes of regulation to force overtime.
• Maryland saw its 25-game overall winning streak and its 24-game road winning streaks come to an end. It was Maryland's first road loss in nearly four years, since a 17-15 UNC win in Chapel Hill in 2014.
• Ortega led all players with six points on four goals and two assists in the game, while McCool had four goals and one assist and Hazar had three goals and an assist. Ally Mastroianni scored twice and added an assist for Carolina, while Katie Hoeg had a goal and two assists. Kara Klages and Gianna Bowe each scored single goals.
• Jen Giles (three goals and an assist) and Caroline Steele (two goals and two assists) led the Terrapins with four points each. Megan Whittle had two goals and an assist, while Kali Hartshorn, Taylor Hensh, Grace Griffin and Meghan Siverson all scored twice.

LAST TIME IN COLLEGE PARK
• Second-ranked Maryland took a 3-0 lead in the first 4:22 of the game and led the rest of the way, beating top-ranked North Carolina, 13-10, on Feb. 25, 2017, in College Park, Md. Jen Giles tallied four goals and three assists for the Terrapins.
• Carly Reed led the Tar Heels with three goals, and Maggie Bill had two goals and an assist. Marie McCool had two goals, two ground balls, three draw controls and a caused turnover. Caroline Wakefield had a goal and an assist, and Ela Hazar and Molly Hendrick both had single goals.
• Caylee Waters went the distance in goal for the Tar Heels, making 11 saves and allowing 13 goals. Megan Taylor (3-0) played all 60 minutes in goal for the Terps, making nine saves and allowing 10 goals.
• Maryland jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first 4:22 of action. Reed stopped the run with a free position goal at the 25:07 mark of the first half, only to Maryland score two in a row to go up, 5-1. The teams traded goals the rest of the first half, and Reed's second goal with just 35 seconds left made it 8-5 Terps at the break.
• Maryland went on a 3-0 run to start the second half, holding the Tar Heels scoreless for the first 16:32 after halftime. Carolina closed the game on a 4-1 run after trailing by as many as six goals at 12-6, eventually falling by a score of 13-10.

TAR HEELS SWEEP HIGH POINT & ECU
• Carolina won a pair of home games last weekend in Chapel Hill, beating High Point, 13-9, on Friday night and East Carolina, 21-3, on Sunday afternoon.
• In the win over High Point, Jamie Ortega's six goals and two assists led Carolina to a 13-9 win. Carolina scored the game's final three goals. Ortega tied her career high with eight points. Her six goals were one off her career high of seven last year versus Duke.
• On Sunday against ECU, 13 different Tar Heels scored in a dominating, 21-3 win. Ortega led UNC with four goals and now has a team-high 15 on the year. Junior Olivia Ferrucci scored a season-high three and the Tar Heels got two each from sophomores Scottie Rose Growney and Ally Mastroianni, and from freshman Amanda Fedor

HOEG & MORENO SWEEP ACC WEEKLY AWARDS (FEB. 12)
• Carolina junior attacker Katie Hoeg has been named Atlantic Coast Conference Women's Lacrosse Offensive Player of the Week on Feb. 12, while UNC goalie Taylor Moreno was selected as ACC Defensive Player of the Week.
• Hoeg had career highs with six assists and nine points as No. 2 North Carolina beat defending NCAA champion and fourth-ranked James Madison. Hoeg scored the eventual game-winning goal and assisted on three of teammate Jamie Ortega's five goals in the Tar Heel victory.
• Moreno was dominant in the cage in Carolina's 18-7 win over James Madison, making 10 saves and adding a caused turnover and a ground ball. Moreno helped limit the 2018 NCAA champion Dukes to just seven goals, and the 11-goal margin of victory was the biggest in the history of the UNC-JMU series.

PRESEASON ALL-ACC POLL & INDIVIDUAL HONORS
• The Atlantic Coast Conference released its preseason coaches poll on Feb. 6, and the conference's coaches predicted North Carolina will finish second in the league behind Boston College.
• Three Tar Heels made the 2019 Preseason All-ACC Team: junior attacker Katie Hoeg, sophomore attacker Jamie Ortega and sophomore goalie Taylor Moreno.
• The ACC head coaches made Boston College the conference favorite after the Eagles reached the NCAA Tournament final a season ago. BC received 63 points in voting from the ACC coaches, and UNC was second with 55 points. The rest of the preseason ACC poll was No. 3 Virginia Tech, No. 4 Virginia, No. 5 Syracuse, No. 6 Notre Dame, No. 7 Duke and No. 8 Louisville.

SIX TAR HEELS EARN PRESEASON ALL-AMERICA HONORS FROM ILWOMEN
• Katie Hoeg, Jamie Ortega and Emma Trenchard all earned 2019 preseason All-America honors from Inside Lacrosse's 2019 Face-Off Yearbook. Hoeg earned first-team honors at attack, Ortega was a second-team attacker and Trenchard was a third-team defender.
• Three Tar Heels earned honorable mention All-America honors, including senior midfielder Kara Klages, senior defender Charlotte Sofield and sophomore goalie Taylor Moreno.
• Hoeg, a junior, earned first-team All-America honors in 2018 after leading Carolina with a career-high and school-record 89 points and a UNC single-season record 50 assists.
• Ortega was the 2018 ACC Rookie of the Year. She posted what is likely the best freshman season in Carolina history, setting school freshman records for most goals with 70 (20 more than the previous freshman record of 50) and most points with 86. Her 86 points were the second-most by a Tar Heel in UNC history (behind Hoeg's 89). Ortega's 70 goals were the second-most in a season by a Tar Heel (Molly Hendrick had 72 in 2017).
• Trenchard earned a spot with the U.S. Women's National Training Team in the fall of 2018 under head coach Jenny Levy. She started all 21 games at defender for the Tar Heels last spring.

SIX TAR HEELS LEAD U.S. WOMEN'S NATIONAL TRAINING TEAM ROSTER
• Six current and former Carolina women's lacrosse players led the way as the U.S. Women's National Training Team played at the President's Cup in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., last November.
• Tar Heels Kristen Carr (UNC '10), Molly Hendrick ('17), Marie McCool ('18), Emily Garrity Parros ('13), Sloane Serpe ('14) and Emma Trenchard ('21) were among the 25 players named to the training team in October 2018. Trenchard is among six current college players on the team and one of three sophomores, the youngest group on the squad.
• Carolina's six players on the team are the most of any school in the nation. Maryland was second with five, and Syracuse had four. UNC's Jenny Levy is the head coach of the team.

HILLMAN, HOWER & NEUMEN MAKE U.S. U19 TRAINING TEAM ROSTER
• Three UNC freshmen women's lacrosse players are among 23 players on the 2019 U.S. U19 women's national team following the late January Spring Premiere in California, head coach Kelly Amonte Hiller announced.
• First-year UNC midfielder Elizabeth Hillman, goalie Kimber Hower and defener Brooklyn Neumen all made the squad.
• From an initial pool of 110 players that participated in tryouts last summer, US Lacrosse took 34 players to Stanford University for a training weekend at Spring Premiere, a six-team women's event featuring the U.S. senior and U19 teams, national teams from Japan and England, and college teams from Fresno State and Stanford.

A TOP FRESHMAN CLASS
• The Tar Heels boast one of the top freshman classes in the nation, led by midfielder Elizabeth Hillman, Inside Lacrosse's pick as the top overall freshman in the country.
• Hillman and classmates Tayler Warehime, Kimber Hower, Gabi Hall, Brooklyn Neumen and Amanda Fedor have been ranked among the top 100 recruits nationally.

CONTRACT EXTENSION FOR LEVY THROUGH 2023
• Two-time national champion and United States National Team women's lacrosse coach Jenny Levy has signed a contract extension with the University of North Carolina, Director of Athletics Bubba Cunningham announced on Dec. 19, 2018. Levy's contract now runs through 2023.
• In her 24th season as the North Carolina head coach, Levy is among the best coaches in women's lacrosse history. She ranks third in NCAA Division I history in career wins and is a two-time National Coach of the Year. She was named the head coach of the United States National Team in November of 2017.
• Levy boasts a career record of 332-113, including 72-31 in ACC play, in her 24th season.
• Levy has led the Tar Heels to 10 appearances in the NCAA Tournament semifinals, including seven in the last 10 years. Her 32 NCAA Tournament wins rank fifth in NCAA history. She is the eighth coach to win multiple NCAA titles.

UNC, EPOCH AGREE TO MULTIYEAR EQUIPMENT CONTRACT
• The University of North Carolina and two-time NCAA champion head coach Jenny Levy have agreed to a multiyear contract with Epoch Lacrosse, the industry leader in lacrosse technology, to be the exclusive supplier of hard goods such as stick heads, shafts, gloves and other select equipment to the Tar Heel women's lacrosse program, UNC announced in January.

NINE TAR HEELS DOT 2019 WPLL ROSTERS
• Nine former UNC players dot 2019 rosters for teams in the Women's Professional Lacrosse League (WPLL). Carolina assistant coach Katrina Dowd is on a roster as well, making 10 players with Tar Heel ties in the WPLL this season.
• Former Carolina players on WPLL rosters for 2019 include Ela Hazar (New England), Laura Zimmerman (Baltimore), Marie McCool (Baltimore), Sammy Jo Tracy (Upstate), Kristen Carr (Upstate), Lindsey Scott (New York), Aly Messinger (Philadelphia), Courtney Waite (Philadelphia) and Caylee Waters (Philadelphia).
• Dowd was one of 14 new players drafted by WPLL teams, joining the New York Fight.

CAROLINA LACROSSE AND SOCCER STADIUM UPDATE
• After playing its 2018 home games in Kenan Stadium, the home of the UNC football team, plans are for the Carolina men's and women's lacrosse teams to move into the new Carolina Lacrosse and Soccer Stadium soon. The new stadium, built at the site of the former Fetzer Field, has been under construction since the summer of 2017.
• The Tar Heels have played in Kenan Stadium thus far this season until the completion of the new facility.

HOEG POSTS CAREER YEAR IN 2018
• Junior attacker Katie Hoeg posted a career-best season thus a year ago in 2018, grabbing a starting job for the Tar Heels for the first time and breaking school records along the way.
• She set career highs in goals, assists and points in 2018, posting a UNC-record 87 points, breaking the previous record of 83. She also had a UNC-record 48 assists on the year.

ORTEGA BACK FOR MORE AFTER DOMINANT FRESHMAN SEASON
• Attacker Jamie Ortega was rated the nation's top incoming attacker prior to the 2018 season, and the freshman from Centereach, N.Y., lived up to her billing by posting what is perhaps the top rookie season in Carolina history.
• She was the 2018 National Rookie of the Year (Inside Lacrosse), the 2018 ACC Freshman of the Year and a third-team All-America (Inside Lacrosse).
• Ortega set UNC freshman records for most goals with 70 (20 more than the previous freshman record of 50) and most points with 86.
• Her 86 points were the second-most by a Tar Heel in UNC history (behind teammate Katie Hoeg's 89). Her 70 goals were the second-most in a season by a Tar Heel (Molly Hendrick had 72 in 2017)
• Ortega all ACC freshmen and the UNC team in goals with 70 (second overall in the ACC) and also led all ACC freshmen in points (86).

CAROLINA HAS WON 33 OF LAST 35 VS. ACC
• Carolina has won 33 of its last 35 games against Atlantic Coast Conference opponents, losing only to Syracuse in 2017 and Boston College in 2018 since the 2015 ACC Tournament final.

TAR HEELS ARE 54-7 IN LAST 61 GAMES
• The Tar Heels enter Sunday's game having gone 54-7 over the last three-plus seasons (dating to early in the 2016 season).

BACK-TO-BACK-TO-BACK ACC TOURNAMENT TITLES
• Carolina won its third consecutive ACC Tournament in 2018, beating Syracuse, Virginia Tech and previously unbeaten Boston College to take the crown in Durham, N.C.
• The Tar Heels have won four ACC Tournaments, including each of the last three (2002, 2016, 2017, 2018).

KATRINA DOWD RETURNS
• Jenny Levy hired Katrina Dowd as associate head coach in the summer of 2018, marking Dowd's return to the team she helped guide to a pair of national championships in four previous years as a Tar Heel assistant.
• Dowd returned to Carolina after two years as the head coach at Oregon, where she compiled a record of 18-17 from 2017-18.
• Dowd serves as UNC's offensive coordinator and draw specialist coach. She also assists Levy and longtime assistant coach and director of recruiting Phil Barnes in scouting, recruiting and all other aspects of guiding the Carolina program.