Jen Adams

Jen Adams lingers at Ludwig Field after every Maryland game in College Park, holding court amid a dozen or so little girls clutching lacrosse sticks and Terrapins programs. The girls are clearly in awe. One brings Adams a crayon drawing. Some want to talk with her. They all want her autograph. But most of all, they want to play lacrosse the way she does. The 21-year-old Australian wields a lacrosse stick with precision and dexterity never before seen in the women's game. The most prolific scorer in collegiate women's lacrosse history, she piles up points the way the Terrapins pile up national championships.

Maryland's Katie Schwarzmann and Alex Aust and Salisbury's Ashton Wheatley and Katie Bollhorst were named the top players at their positions by the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches' Association Saturday night at the annual All-America banquet. Schwarzmann, the Division I Midfielder of the Year, and Aust, the Attacker of the Year, have led the No. 1 Terps to a 22-0 season going into Sunday night's NCAA championship game against North Carolina. Wheatley, the C. Markland Kelly Goalie of the Year in Division III, and Bollhorst, the Attacker of the Year, led the Sea Gulls to a 23-0 season and their second national championship last weekend.

Former Terps players Jen Adams, Brian Dougherty and Kelly Amonte Hiller, as well as eight-time national champion coach Cindy Timchal, were inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame on Saturday night at the Grand Lodge in Hunt Valley. The quartet, who were accompanied as 2012 inductees by four-time Syracuse All-American midfielder Roy Colsey, three-time Orangemen All-American attackman Tim Nelson, three-time Princeton All-American attackman Jesse Hubbard and Middlebury's Missy Foote, a five-time IWLCA National Coach of the Year, joined  more than 350 lacrosse greats enshrined in the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame at US Lacrosse headquarters in Baltimore.

Each week, The Baltimore Sun publishes a Q&A with an area college lacrosse player to help you become more acquainted with the player and his/her team. Today's guest is Maryland senior attacker Alex Aust. The Bullis graduate has made assisting her signature contribution to the No. 1 Terps ' 19-0 season and their No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament as they prepare to host Towson or Stony Brook in a second-round game Sunday at noon. Aust, who leads the team in points with 108, has 48 assists this season, ranking eighth in Division I. Her 125 career assists rank second among the all-time Terps behind Jen Adams and Kelly Amonte Hiller.

Cass Cursaro , a member of the Australian national team that took the silver in the 2009 Women's World Cup, has been added to Loyola's roster. Cursaro, a 5-foot-11 midfielder, scored three goals and scooped up nine ground balls as a teammate of Greyhounds coach Jen Adams at the World Cup. Two years before, she led the Under-19 Australian team to the silver, while playing for the Brighton Bombers Lacrosse Club, the same club that produced Adams and a third of the 2009 Australian national team.

Former Terps men's basketball star Juan Dixon headlines the Class of 2012 for the University of Maryland Athletics Hall of Fame, officials announced Friday. Dixon, Maryland's all-time leading scorer with 2,269 points, was the Most Outstanding Player in the 2002 NCAA tournament after leading the Terps to the national championship. Football player Paul Vellano, father of current Terps defensive lineman Joe Vellano, field hockey player Carla Tagliente and women's lacrosse players Jen Adams and Sarah Forbes, as well as former baseball coach Tom Bradley and former women's lacrosse coach Cindy Timchal, will also be inducted into the Hall of Fame on Friday, Oct. 5, during a ceremony at Riggs Alumni Center.

COLLEGE PARK - Jen Adams was as big as the stage last night as the senior midfielder from Australia established a Maryland record for points in a game in a 24-5 rout of No. 19 Johns Hopkins at Byrd Stadium. The top-ranked Terps normally play at Ludwig Field, but they moved into Byrd to start a women's-men's doubleheader. Adams, who is headed to her third straight national Player of the Year honor, racked up eight goals and four assists, and the 12 points bettered a record of 11 that she became the fourth player to reach last year.

Each week, The Baltimore Sun publishes a Q&A with an area college lacrosse player to help you become more acquainted with the player and his/her team. Today's guest is Maryland senior attacker Alex Aust. The Bullis graduate has made assisting her signature contribution to the No. 1 Terps ' 19-0 season and their No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament as they prepare to host Towson or Stony Brook in a second-round game Sunday at noon. Aust, who leads the team in points with 108, has 48 assists this season, ranking eighth in Division I. Her 125 career assists rank second among the all-time Terps behind Jen Adams and Kelly Amonte Hiller.

Today's women's games Nat. Collegiate quarterfinals No. 8 Georgetown (12-4) at No. 1 Maryland (18-1) Site: Ludwig Field, College Park Time: 1 p.m. Skinny: The five-time defending champion Terrapins begin their title defense against a Hoyas team they beat, 16-6, on April 13. The two teams met in last year's quarterfinal, a 17-6 Terps win. Maryland has won 13 straight NCAA tournament games and has been to the final four every year since coach Cindy...

Less than a week after winning the Tewaaraton Award for the top women's lacrosse player in the country, Maryland's Caitlyn McFadden earned another national honor. The senior midfielder and Notre Dame Prep graduate won the Honda Sports Award on Monday, which also honors her as the best women's lacrosse player in the country. "I feel so incredibly grateful to be named alongside the top players in all of college sports by winning this year's Honda Sports Award," McFadden said in a news release.

Navy earned its first seeded spot in the NCAA women's Division I lacrosse tournament and Loyola's late surge was enough for an at-large bid when the selections to the newly-expanded 26-team bracket were announced Sunday night. As expected, Maryland, the only undefeated team in Division I at 19-0, received the No. 1 seed. The Terps , like the other seven seeds, will host the first and second rounds next weekend. Defending champion Northwestern earned the No. 2 seeded with its 8-3 win over Florida in Sunday's American Lacrosse Conference championship.

April 12, 2001: Make it 32 consecutive wins for the Maryland women's lacrosse team, which defeats No. 5 Georgetown, 13-9. Jen Adams scores six times for the Terps , reigning national champions. April 12, 1988: After losing their first six games, the Orioles fire manager Cal Ripken Sr. and replace him with Frank Robinson who, as a player, had led them to two world championships. Nonetheless, the Birds drop 21 straight before finally winning one. April 8, 1985: In an Opening Day game delayed by snow flurries, the Orioles defeat the Texas Rangers, 4-2, on Eddie Murray's two-run home run in the eighth inning before a bundled crowd of 50,402 at Memorial Stadium.

Senior attacker Alex Aust set a Maryland single-game assist record with seven and finished with 11 points as the No. 1 Terps dispatched visiting UMBC, 17-10, on Tuesday night. The Retrievers (3-2) came within three of the Terps early in the second half, but Maryland scored five unanswered goals over the next 3:21 to shut the door. Maryland (6-0) held a 21-8 advantage on draw controls in the contest, including a game-high seven draws from freshman midfielder Taylor Cummings (McDonogh)

Needing to issue a wake-up call to her Loyola women's lacrosse team after last week's season-opening loss to Virginia, coach Jen Adams decided to ditch the theatrics in favor of a more civilized approach. "I didn't realize all you had to do was ask nicely," Adams said with a laugh. Whatever the method, the message apparently stuck, as No. 10 Loyola scored six of seven goals to open the second half, then held off a late surge by visiting No. 9 Penn State in a 13-11 win. Trailing by a goal at halftime, the Greyhounds (1-1)

Division I women's college lacrosse is in the middle of one of its biggest growth spurts in years, and several recent changes appear likely to spark even more expansion soon. This spring, the NCAA tournament bracket expands to 26 teams, and Division I grows to 100 teams with eight new programs, including Southern California. And a shifting conference landscape that includes some of the biggest women's lacrosse powers could prompt more schools to add the sport. Several Division I schools, including Maryland, recently decided to switch conferences in moves often driven by their football or basketball programs.

The Baltimore Bombers, who are less than two weeks from their first season in the North American Lacrosse League, announced the appointment of Dan Marohl , Shawn Nadelen and Damien Davis as captains and assistant captains. Each player was chosen by teammates through an open election. The NALL is a professional box lacrosse league founded in 2011. Marohl is a native of Annapolis who attended St. Mary's and UMBC. He began his professional box lacrosse career with the Ottawa Rebel and the Philadelphia Wings of the National Lacrosse League.

Division I women's college lacrosse is in the middle of one of its biggest growth spurts in years, and several recent changes appear likely to spark even more expansion soon. This spring, the NCAA tournament bracket expands to 26 teams, and Division I grows to 100 teams with eight new programs, including Southern California. And a shifting conference landscape that includes some of the biggest women's lacrosse powers could prompt more schools to add the sport. Several Division I schools, including Maryland, recently decided to switch conferences in moves often driven by their football or basketball programs.

The Baltimore Bombers, who are less than two weeks from their first season in the North American Lacrosse League, announced the appointment of Dan Marohl , Shawn Nadelen and Damien Davis as captains and assistant captains. Each player was chosen by teammates through an open election. The NALL is a professional box lacrosse league founded in 2011. Marohl is a native of Annapolis who attended St. Mary's and UMBC. He began his professional box lacrosse career with the Ottawa Rebel and the Philadelphia Wings of the National Lacrosse League.

Former Terps players Jen Adams, Brian Dougherty and Kelly Amonte Hiller, as well as eight-time national champion coach Cindy Timchal, were inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame on Saturday night at the Grand Lodge in Hunt Valley. The quartet, who were accompanied as 2012 inductees by four-time Syracuse All-American midfielder Roy Colsey, three-time Orangemen All-American attackman Tim Nelson, three-time Princeton All-American attackman Jesse Hubbard and Middlebury's Missy Foote, a five-time IWLCA National Coach of the Year, joined  more than 350 lacrosse greats enshrined in the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame at US Lacrosse headquarters in Baltimore.

Loyola women's lacrosse coach Jen Adams has been chosen as the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association's Mid-Atlantic Region Coach of the Year for the second time, as announced today by the organization. This spring, Adams turned what could have been a rebuilding year for Loyola into one of the most successful seasons ever for the Greyhounds. Despite losing 73 percent of its scoring from 2011, Loyola won its second straight Big East Conference title - knocking off then-No.