Brenda Frese #2
Brenda Frese #2
Head Coach - UM Women's Basketball
There was no better fit for the University of Maryland women's basketball program than head coach Brenda Frese.
The 2002 Associated Press (AP) National Coach of the Year arrived in College Park with great expectations and has not disappointed. Reviving a once-prominent women's basketball program back to the national stage, her high work rate and positive attitude has resulted in seven-straight top-15 recruiting classes and a National Championship in 2006.
Brenda has balanced that strong work ethic with a fun and family-friendly environment, also becoming a wife and a mother of twin boys, giving birth to them in the midst of one of the most successful seasons in the program's history. With the birth of her twins in February of 2008, she became one of only six coaches to win a national championship and be a parent.
Since her first season at the helm when the team won just 10 games, Frese has guided Maryland to a National Championship in 2006, six winning seasons, five-straight 20-win seasons, three 30-win campaigns and six-consecutive trips to the NCAA Tournament. In 2006-07, Maryland also received its first-ever No. 1 preseason national ranking, remaining in the top spot in the polls for 10-consecutive weeks.
She is a 1993 graduate of the University of Arizona, where she was a three-year letterwinner for the Wildcats as a guard. When injuries sidelined her during her senior season, she joined the Pima Community College coaching staff in Tucson, Ariz., as an assistant coach in charge of recruiting and scouting. Along with her bachelor's degree in communications from Arizona in 1993, she also earned a master's degree in athletic administration from Kent State in 1995.
The Maryland Terrapins basketball teams represent the University of Maryland, College Park. The teams are casually referred to as Terps. The Maryland Terrapins participate in NCAA Division I-A and are attributed to the Atlantic Coast Conference. The mascot of the team is Testudo the Turtle. It first appeared in 1932, after Dr. Curley Byrd proposed that the University's mascot should be a diamondback terrapin. The official and lucky colors of the team are red, black, white, and gold.
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