- January 15, 2025
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Men’s Lacrosse Defensive Coordinator Earns Top Assistant Coach Honor
The Intercollegiate Men’s Lacrosse Coaches Association named Jesse Bernhardt ’13 Division I’s Outstanding Assistant Coach.
Bernhardt, a former Terps standout who was promoted from defensive coordinator to associate head coach this offseason, led the Terps’ defensive unit en route to the program’s 10th Final Four since 2011 and eighth national championship game. In the postseason, UMD held opponents Princeton and Virginia to eight or fewer goals. Overall in 2024, the Terps limited teams to under seven goals in seven of 17 games.
“Jesse does an awesome job teaching the fundamentals and installing fantastic game plans,” head coach John Tillman says. “He is great at making in-game adjustments and is an outstanding role model for our young men.”
Terp Races to NCAA Cross Country Championship
After garnering All-Regional honors with an eighth-place finish in November’s NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional, sophomore cross country runner Rose Coats became the sixth
Terp in program history to qualify for the national championship meet.
Coats, who posted a time of 20:18.5 in the 6K championship race in Madison, Wis., was the first University of Maryland runner to compete at that level since Emily Bracher in 2018.
This season, Coats twice set the program record for a 6K. At the Princeton Fall Classic, her time of 19:59.9 was just enough to claim UMD’s first sub-20-minute mark. She shaved off another six seconds to break her own record with a 19:53.8 showing at the Mid-Atlantic Regional.
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