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Former women’s lacrosse defender Marge Donovan transfers to Maryland
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Former Princeton ladies’s lacrosse defender Marge Donovan ’22 isn’t accomplished simply but.
This previous break-out season with the Tigers, Donovan earned All-American honors from the Intercollegiate Ladies’s Lacrosse Coaches Affiliation (IWLCA), a slate of Ivy League awards, and led the crew to the NCAA match as one of many 2022 captains.
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On July 28, No. 3 Maryland ladies’s lacrosse introduced that Donovan would use her 12 months of graduate eligibility to affix the Terps roster. Donovan is the second ladies’s sport athlete to decide to Maryland, becoming a member of ladies’s basketball guard Abby Meyers in School Park. The transfer can be a homecoming for Donovan, who performed highschool lacrosse in Catonsville, Md.
Donovan’s five-year stint with the Tigers was one for the historical past books. She joined the Princeton squad in 2017 as part of the second-best recruiting class within the nation that 12 months after wrapping up an undefeated 86–0 highschool profession. Snagging an All-Ivy Honorable Point out in her rookie 12 months, Donovan rapidly grew to become a cornerstone of Princeton ladies’s lacrosse. Donovan presently holds the Princeton all-time draw controls (DC) report for a profession (214), a single-season (112), and a single-game (12). Donovan can be eighth all-time in profession prompted turnovers (CT).
“That particular person milestone is unquestionably a mirrored image of all of the intentional, arduous work that the crew and coaches put into draw work,” Donovan wrote in an e-mail to The Each day Princetonian. “I take loads of pleasure in that accomplishment as a result of it displays the eagerness and pleasure I play with on the sector.”
The accolades Donovan has collected are intensive: three All-Ivy picks, 2022 Ivy Defender of the 12 months, a 2022 IWLCA All-American third-team choice, and the 2022 Ivy Event’s Most Excellent Participant, to call just a few. In final 12 months’s good 7–0 Ivy League common season, Donovan’s 1.68 prompted turnovers (CT) per sport was first within the League, whereas her 5.89 draw controls (DC) per sport was second within the league. In Princeton’s 15–9 win over UMass Amherst, which despatched them to the second spherical of the NCAA match, Donovan led Princeton’s defenders with six DC and two CT.
However, past the awards, it is the Princeton group Donovan says she’ll miss most. “My teammates and the crew’s alumni are my finest buddies and position fashions,” she wrote. “It was a privilege to play below Coach Sailer, and her legacy will at all times reside on in that program.”
Sailer, who coached the Tigers for 36 years, introduced her retirement earlier this 12 months.
Donovan’s excellence has already prolonged past the Orange Bubble. Donovan was the one Ivy League participant to be invited to tryout for Crew USA forward of the 2021 World Championships, and most lately gained silver on the 2022 World Video games.
Donovan enters a Maryland program well-known for its defensive gamers. Yearly since becoming a member of the Large Ten convention in 2015, the Terps have secured a Defender of the 12 months award and make frequent appearances within the Nationwide Defender of the 12 months race.
“[Donovan] is an unbelievable defender that we now have admired for years whereas watching and dealing with her at Princeton,” mentioned Maryland head coach Cathy Reese in Donovan’s dedication announcement. “We all know she is going to slot in seamlessly on our protection and assist us accomplish large issues subsequent season.”
For Donovan, who’s spent the final 5 seasons with the Tigers, the prospect of change brings pleasure and motivation. “I am most wanting ahead to the journey and problem of being on a brand new crew at a brand new faculty,” Donovan wrote. “I stay up for being the very best model of myself, to be the very best teammate and simplest participant I may be to assist the crew win.”
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As for Donovan’s future within the sport, she’s remained targeted on the current. “I attempt to keep within the second and take issues as they arrive,” Donovan instructed the ‘Prince.’ Nevertheless, she additionally famous her future desires of taking part in professionally, citing Athletes Limitless (AU) as an inspiration.
At present within the midst of its third season, AU options weekly rotating rosters, in addition to alternatives for gamers to win as people and as a part of a crew. “[AU] is an unbelievable league with unbelievable expertise,” Donovan wrote. “I am very excited for the way forward for AU and the way forward for the game typically.”
Bold targets and large roles to fill will await Donovan when she joins the Terps, who’ve gained 5 NCAA championships within the final twelve seasons, most lately in 2019. Maryland could have their eyes on getting again to the finals in 2023, and Donovan will play a big position in serving to the Terps reprise their championship success.
Isabel Rodrigues is a contributor to the Sports activities part on the ‘Prince’ who usually covers ladies’s basketball. She may be reached at isabelr@princeton.edu or on Twitter @IsabelBarroso78.
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Michigan State football opens as sizable underdog vs Maryland
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Who’s ready for Big Ten play to begin? In all honesty, I am not. I really wish Michigan State football had more tune-up games after seeing them struggle against Florida Atlantic and only win 16-10. But unfortunately, that is not how the schedule unfolds for Michigan State this season.
The Spartans will hit the road for an early Big Ten game as they face Maryland on Saturday at 3:30 pm. Going into the season I thought Michigan State and the Terps were on a pretty level playing field, but after seeing both teams play week one that doesn’t appear to be the case.
And Vegas agrees.
Michigan State opens as a 7.5-point underdog next week at Maryland. My guess is that grows to 8, 8.5.
— Graham Couch (@Graham_Couch) September 1, 2024
As you all know, Michigan State only beat Florida Atlantic by six and did not look very impressive, especially on the offensive side of the ball. So it’s no surprise that MSU will be the underdog next week. But 7.5 points feels like a lot, and according to the Lansing State Journal’s Graham Couch, it likely will only go up from there.
So does Vegas have it right or are they underrating Michigan State?
Looking at Maryland’s week one game against UConn it appears Vegas has this line right. The Terps were up 23-0 at halftime and never looked back and went on to win in dominant fashion 50-7. UConn and FAU are very similar in terms of what level they’re at in college football, so that drastic of a difference in the final score is very scary.
So Vegas probably could’ve gotten away with Maryland being even bigger favorites in this one.
But maybe Vegas saw what I did and thinks a lot of Michigan State’s mistakes on Friday are easy to fix. Maybe they think Aidan Chiles will be much better next week. The Spartan’s defense was also fairly dominant so there isn’t much of a chance Maryland scores 50 points next week either.
I tend to not bet on Michigan State games, but even if I did this would be a line that I would avoid because who knows how much Jonathan Smith’s squad will improve by next week, and who knows how much Maryland might struggle against a Power Four opponent.
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University of Maryland reverses decision to allow anti-Israel protest on October 7
The University of Maryland on Sunday reversed its decision to allow an anti-Israel protest on the first anniversary of the October 7 Massacre, following backlash from local Jewish groups.
UMD Students for Justice in Palestine and UMD Jewish Voice for Peace had been set to hold their October 7 vigil for Gazans killed in the Israel-Hamas War at the campus’s Mckeldin Mall, but the University System of Maryland (USM) said in a statement that on the day of the Hamas-led pogrom it would limit campus events requiring permits or approval to those supporting “a university-sponsored Day of Dialogue.”
“From the beginning of the war, we have come together as a University System to urge that we use this moment to encourage conversation, compassion, and civility; to engage with one another across our differences and draw on our shared humanity and our shared values to bridge what divides us,” said USM. “These dialogues aren’t new. Many of our universities have been hosting this kind of programming for several months. Reserving Oct. 7 gives us a chance to continue these urgent conversations and to mark this solemn anniversary in a way that gives students—all students—the time and space to share and to be heard.”
USM said that its intent was not to infringe of the free expression and speech of students, but to be sensitive to the needs of students as October 7 was a “day of enormous suffering and grief for many in our campus communities.”
UMD Jewish Student Union, Maryland Hillel, Terps for Israel, and Israeli American Council Mishelanu at Maryland welcomed the USM decision and thanked UMD leadership in a joint social media statement on Sunday.
“October 7, the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, is a day of mourning for the Jewish and Israeli community,” said the UMD JSU. “We are relieved that SJP will no longer to be able to appropriate the suffering of our family and friends to fit their false and dangerous narrative.”
The Jewish groups said that it was distraught that the decision to only hold university-sponsored event had to be made at all, and wished to used the campus space to “grieve together as a community” to promote unity at the university. The unideal situation was necessary, according to the Jewish groups, to ensure the physical and psychological safety of students on the day of mourning.
UMD JVP and SJP attacked the decision to cancel the event, claiming that the vigil for Palestinians killed since the October 7 Massacre was attacked without familiarity of the content. The anti-Israel groups said that the discourse was “the continuation inherently racist, Islamophobic, and dehumanizing rhetoric surrounding Palestinians.” JVP and SJP said that the actions against their event were an attempt to paint “Muslim, Arab, and anti-Zionist Jewish students as barbaric.”
The anti-Israel groups asserted that their vigil for Palestinians who died in the war was no threat to the campus’s Jewish community, but conflation of Zionism and Judaism did threaten UMD and the Jewish community.
“To claim that Palestinians cannot hold a day of remembrance in mourning one year of genocide, or lay claim to that date is an insult to every life lost in the Zionist entity’s genocidal campaign,” UMD SJP and JVP said on Instagram on Sunday. “The disproportionate scale of suffering experienced by the Palestinians over the past year necessitates their remembrance and our solidarity on this day. The suffering of all innocents killed must not be monopolized and necessitates a fair and just representation.”
SJP and JVP demanded the right to organize and exercise their right to free speech, accusing Zionists of attempting to stifle Palestinian voices.
The organizations indicated on their Sunday Instagram post that they still planned to hold their all-day event at Mckeldin Mall, and on Monday a link to register still active and listing the campus building as the rally location.
UMD Jewish groups said that they would be holding their own event to memorialize the victims of the October 7 pogrom at the Maryland Hillel.
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Sunshine for your Labor Day in Maryland
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