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Maryland’s Logan Wisnauskas wins Tewaaraton Award

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3 years ago

June 2, 2022

After leading the Maryland men’s lacrosse team to the national title, attacker Logan Wisnauskas capped his college career by winning the Tewaaraton Award, the honor given to the nation’s best player each year.

Wisnauskas scored 61 goals with 42 assists as the Terps (18-0) cemented themselves as one of the sport’s all-time best teams. Maryland routinely routed opponents, winning games by an average of 8.7 goals. Even as Wisnauskas operated within an offense that featured numerous scoring threats, he broke Maryland’s single-season record with 103 points.

Wisnauskas, a Sykesville native who attended the Boys’ Latin School of Maryland, began his career at Syracuse but did not play there before transferring. Wisnauskas spent five seasons in College Park, taking advantage of the extra eligibility granted to all college athletes in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, and he became the program’s all-time leader in goals (205) and points (340).

Wisnauskas thanked his teammates in his acceptance speech “for the most incredible journey of a lifetime this year and the previous four years at Maryland.” He added: “While I dreamt about my future an exhausting amount as a little kid, the journey with you guys has been beyond remarkable. What we accomplished at Maryland has been remarkable and historic and my being on this stage is a culmination of your guys’ dedication, selflessness and friendship.”

Maryland men’s lacrosse team caps perfect season with national title

Through Maryland’s run in this year’s NCAA tournament, Wisnauskas scored 13 goals with six assists in four games. In the national semifinal win over Princeton, he scored four times, and in the title game, Wisnauskas notched two goals and two assists. He finished this season converting 48.8 percent of his shots.

Wisnauskas becomes the third Maryland men’s player to win the Tewaaraton, which was first awarded in 2001, joining Jared Bernhardt (2021) and Matt Rambo (2017).

“I came to Maryland for the opportunity to win a national championship while fulfilling my greatest potential,” Wisnauskas said. “And I’m proud to now be an alumnus of the greatest lacrosse program in the world.”

The other male finalists were Chris Gray (North Carolina), Sam Handley (Penn), Brendan Nichtern (Army) and Connor Shellenberger (Virginia).

On the women’s side, Boston College’s Charlotte North won the award for the second straight year. North scored 92 goals with 23 assists and led the Eagles to the national title game. North scored four goals in the championship, but top-seeded North Carolina secured the title with a 12-11 victory.

North, who spent her first two collegiate seasons at Duke and then played three years at Boston College, became the NCAA’s all-time leading scorer in Division I women’s lacrosse, finishing her career with 358 goals.

North won the Tewaaraton over finalists Aurora Cordingley (Maryland), Ally Mastroianni (North Carolina), Jamie Ortega (North Carolina) and Meaghan Tyrrell (Syracuse).

Cordingley, a graduate transfer from Johns Hopkins, was named the Big Ten attacker of the year after recording 67 goals and 51 assists, both team highs. She ranked fourth in the nation with 118 points and helped the Terps return to the Final Four.

Maryland women’s lacrosse has had 27 Tewaaraton finalists, including at least one in each season under Coach Cathy Reese, who took over the program in 2007.

Former Maryland player Kelly Amonte Hiller, the longtime head coach at Northwestern, received the Tewaaraton Legends Award, which is given to exceptional players whose college careers predated the Tewaaraton Award. Amonte Hiller, a four-time all-American, won two national championships and scored 187 goals as a Terp from 1993 to 1996. She has led Northwestern to seven national titles, all during an eight-year stretch from 2005 to 2012.

Dave Pietramala, a former standout defender at Johns Hopkins, also won the Legends Award. He led the program at his alma mater from 2001 to 2020 and now serves as an assistant at Syracuse. New England Patriots Coach Bill Belichick, an avid fan of lacrosse, won the Spirit of Tewaaraton Award.

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Macy's closing stores in Maryland and Virginia. Here’s the full list.

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7 hours ago

January 10, 2025

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Macy's closing stores in Maryland and Virginia. Here’s the full list.

WASHINGTON – Macy’s is closing more than 60 stores this year as part of a comprehensive strategy to revive its struggling business, the department store said, and several of them are in Maryland and Virginia.

In what the company refers to as its “Bold New Chapter” strategy, Macy’s said in a statement on Thursday that the closures are designed to “return the company to sustainable, profitable sales growth.”

Overall, Macy’s said it plans to close approximately 150 “underproductive stores” through 2026. Meanwhile, it will invest in 350 existing stores, with plans to add more salespeople to fitting areas and shoe departments, and adding more visual displays like mannequins.