Brenda Frese signed a six-year contract with an additional one-year extension for the 2027-28 season, keeping the Maryland women's basketball coach at the helm of a program she's led to success since 2002.
Nineteen years after first stepping foot on campus as a fast-rising coach, Frese has won 500 games with the Terrapins, brought home a national title and won another AP National Coach of the Year honor in 2021.
Her first award helped bring her to College Park. The second helped keep Frese there for the long haul.
“I’m really proud of the … consistency that this program has been able to uphold,” Frese said. “I consider myself a consistent personality and person, and it means a lot to continue to hold this program at a really high level, because that’s where Maryland belongs.”
May 19, 2021
It was Aug. 8, 2008, the opening day of the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing. A’ja Wilson was celebrating her 12th birthday with an Olympic-themed party to watch the U.S. women’s basketball team play. That legendary squad included the likes of Seimone Augustus, Sue Bird, Tamika Catchings, Sylvia Fowles, Lisa Leslie, Candace Parker and Diana Taurasi.
“This was my first time seeing WNBA players, and I did not understand how much it really meant to watch women play the game so well and make it look easy,” says Wilson. “I remember saying, ‘These women are badass. They are going after it. That’s how I want to be.’ ”
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In high school, Candace Parker couldn’t wait for Christmas to be over because that meant it was time to play in the Dundee-Crown holiday tournament. If you got to the gym early enough, you could watch it transition from a quiet high school on a tree-lined suburban street in Carpentersville to a sporting venue straight from a movie. Think of ‘‘Hoosiers.’’ Anyone who has been around the Chicago-area prep basketball scene knows the setting. It’s a winter night so cold it steals your breath. Fluffy snowflakes are sticking to your eyelashes. Your car is parked far away from the gym doors.