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Niagara GEORGE MASON (FIELD TRIP DAY) FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UMBC Hofstra Georgetown Howard MOUNT ST. MARY'S MORGAN STATE Toledo St. Francis Brooklyn ARMY WEST POINT* Holy Cross* BOSTON UNIVERSITY* Bucknell* Lafayette* LEHIGH* Boston University* American* Colgate* BUCKNELL (Women in Sports Day)* Navy* HOLY CROSS* Colgate* LAFAYETTE* (Play4Kay Game) Lehigh* NAVY* AMERICAN* ARMY WEST POINT*
Niagara Falls, NY Baltimore, MD (Reitz Arena) Baltimore, MD (Reitz Arena) Baltimore, MD (Reitz Arena) Hempstead, NY Washington, DC Washington, DC Baltimore, MD (Reitz Arena) Baltimore, MD (Reitz Arena) Toledo, OH Brooklyn, NY Baltimore, Md. (Reitz Arena) Worcester, Mass. Baltimore, Md. (Reitz Arena) Lewisburg, Pa. Easton, Pa. Baltimore, Md. (Reitz Arena) Boston, Mass. Washington, D.C. Baltimore,Md. (Reitz Arena) Baltimore, Md. (Reitz Arena) Annapolis, Md. Baltimore, Md. (Reitz Arena) Hamilton, N.Y. Baltimore, Md. (Reitz Arena) Bethlehem, Pa. Baltimore, Md. (Reitz Arena) Baltimore, Md. (Reitz Arena) Baltimore, Md. (Reitz Arena)
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JOHNS HOPKINS (EXHIBITION) North Carolina South Carolina State College of Charleston Lipscomb Coppin State ELIZABETHTOWN Fairfield CHICAGO STATE MOUNT ST. MARY'S St. Bonaventure HAMPTON GOUCHER Maryland Army West Point* HOLY CROSS* Boston University* BUCKNELL* LAFAYETTE* Lehigh* BOSTON UNIVERSITY* AMERICAN* Colgate* Bucknell* ARMY WEST POINT* NAVY* Holy Cross* COLGATE* Lafayette* LEHIGH* Navy* American*
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TERRENCE M. SAWYER, J.D. Loyola University’s 25th President Terrence M. Sawyer, J.D., became the 25th president of Loyola University Maryland on January 3, 2022. His career at Loyola started in 1998 as special assistant to the president for government and community relations, where he worked extensively to create and maintain positive relationships with Loyola’s neighboring communities and government officials. In 2004 he was named vice president for administration, where he served as liaison to the Board of Trustees and oversaw the departments of human resources, public safety, environmental health and safety, and parking and transportation, while also continuing his government and community relations duties. In 2015, he was named vice president for advancement and he most recently served as senior vice president, leading the division of advancement as well as alumni relations, career services, and marketing and communications. In addition, he is an affiliate professor in Loyola's Sellinger School of Business and Management. In recent years, under Mr. Sawyer’s leadership, the University raised more than $100 million through the Bright Minds, Bold Hearts campaign, the largest campaign in Loyola’s history, which significantly grew the University’s endowment and student scholarship support. During his tenure, Sawyer also led the advancement team in raising funds to support strategic capital projects, including the recently opened Miguel B. Fernandez Family Center for Innovation and Collaborative Learning. Sawyer was instrumental in developing and launching the York Road Initiative, where Loyola collaborates with neighbors and partners in the Govans community to bring positive change in the
areas of civic capacity, education, and economic and business development. Under his leadership as senior vice president, Sawyer oversaw an advancement team that secured multi-million dollar gifts to support the construction of the Fernandez Center of Innovation and Collaborative Learning, a career services team that has re-envisioned the University’s approach to the discernment and pursuit of careers for its students and alumni; and the office of marketing and communications. Sawyer is a graduate of the Ignatian Colleagues Program, a program run by the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities that is designed to educate and form administrators and faculty more deeply in the Jesuit and Catholic tradition of higher education. During the program, Sawyer completed the Spiritual Exercises and participated in an immersion experience in El Salvador. In June 2016, he walked in the steps of St. Ignatius on a pilgrimage through Spain and Italy. A native of Wayne, N.J., Sawyer earned his bachelor’s degree in government and politics from the University of Maryland, College Park, a Juris Doctor degree from the Widener University School of Law, and completed the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Institute for Educational Management program. Prior to working at Loyola, Sawyer was an attorney for the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development and practiced civil and criminal law in Baltimore City. He is a member of the Maryland State Bar. Sawyer’s wife, Courtney, is a speech pathologist who earned her Master of Science in SpeechLanguage Pathology from Loyola. They are parishioners of Church of the Nativity in Timonium, Md. They have three sons who graduated from Immaculate Conception School and Loyola Blakefield; their eldest son is serving in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps and their two younger sons are in college.
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THE LOYOLA MISSION Loyola University Maryland is a Jesuit, Catholic university committed to the educational and spiritual traditions of the Society of Jesus and the development of the whole person. Accordingly, the University inspires students to learn, lead, and serve in a diverse and changing world. At Loyola, this means that the curriculum is rigorous and faculty expectations are high. With majors and minors in more than 40 academic fields, Loyola offers an undergraduate program grounded in the liberal arts, focused primarily on developing undergraduate students as wellrounded scholars and leaders who are distinctly prepared to succeed in every aspect of their lives. Our students come from diverse geographic, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds, which adds to the rich and varied experiences of our community. In addition, Loyola offers a variety of study abroad programs, exchanges, and affiliations in countries such as Spain, New Zealand, Thailand, Ghana, and Australia. Loyola also has a strong community service program, Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program, and athletic program. Graduate degrees at the master’s and doctoral levels are also available in a wide range of programs and areas of study. The University is comprised of the School of Education, the
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Sellinger School of Business and Management, and Loyola College—the University’s college of arts and sciences. Loyola also operates Clinical Centers in Baltimore and has a graduate center in Timonium, Md., and Columbia, Md. In addition to academic coursework, Loyola’s Jesuit mission is carried out through a variety of programs and events sponsored by various University departments, including Campus Ministry and the Center for Community Service and Justice. When Jesuit priests founded Loyola in 1852, they looked to the very heart of their order for inspiration in choosing a name. They found their inspiration in St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus, and that’s how Loyola became the first institution of higher education in the United States to bear his name. To this day, we remain committed to the ideals embodied by the Society of Jesus throughout its rich history. Those Jesuit ideals include an emphasis on academic excellence, the importance of the liberal arts, and cura personalis — the education of the whole person. We strive to live up to the ideals set by St. Ignatius, and know they are integral to what Loyola has become.
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History
Founded in 1852, Loyola University Maryland is the ninth oldest American Jesuit institution of higher learning.
Rankings
Loyola University Maryland is No. 4 among the best universities in the North region in the U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Colleges” guide for 2022.
Campus
Loyola University Maryland maintains a traditional collegiate campus in northern Baltimore City, which primarily houses Loyola’s undergraduate programs, a campus in Timonium that focuses on graduate programs, and the Loyola Clinical Centers with locations at Belvedere Square and in Columbia, Md.
Students
5,140 undergraduate and graduate students from 40 states and 43 countries.
Class Size
Student/Faculty ratio: 12:1
Programs
More than 40 undergraduate programs; seven graduate programs through its three schools: Loyola College (Arts and Sciences), the Sellinger School of Business and Management, and the School of Education. Loyola features a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest academic honor society.
Experiential learning
Students at Loyola University Maryland know that the classroom can only take them so far when it comes to preparing for the workplace and the world. Through service learning, internships, work study and cooperative education, Greyhounds from all majors find ways to apply their studies in professional settings before they graduate. More than 60% study abroad.
Athletics
18 varsity sports; competes in the Patriot League
Financial Aid
95% of undergraduate students received Loyola-funded grants and scholarships.
Graduate Success
Within six to nine months of graduation, 95% of our graduates are employed or in graduate school, and salaries of our alumni trend over 30% higher than predicted by mid-career. More important, both alumni and employers have singled out the distinctive Jesuit aspects of Loyola graduates as primary engines of their enduring success, both professionally and personally.
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DONNA M. WOODRUFF ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS donna (Mulhern) Woodruff, an administrator with more than 25 years of experience in college athletics, was named assistant vice president and director of athletics at Loyola University Maryland in an event held May 23, 2017, at Ridley Athletic Complex. Woodruff came Loyola after spending 13 years at Stony Brook University where she served as the Deputy Director of Athletics since July 2014. In her first two years at Loyola, the Greyhounds won six Patriot League regular-season and two conference tournament titles; the men's and women's lacrosse teams advanced to the NCAA Championships, winning games in both years in the tournament. She celebrated with the men's lacrosse team as Pat Spencer '19 was named the winner of the 2019 Tewaaraton Award and USILA Lt. Raymond J. Enners Award as the nation's top men's lacrosse player, the first such award for a Loyola studentathlete. Woodruff was named to the NCAA Men's Lacrosse Committee in 2019 and is serving a three-year term with the group that selects the championships field and determines policy for the national organization at the sport level. She also is the Patriot League Athletic Director's liaison to the men's basketball coaches committee. In 2018, Loyola opened the Air Dome at Ridley Athletic Complex's Lugano Field, an indoor practice venue for Greyhounds lacrosse teams, as well as a training facility for other Loyola programs. The Greyhounds signed a multi-year agreement in 2018 with Van Wagner Sports and Entertainment under which VWSE will serve as the athletic department's exclusive multimedia rights partner and sales agent for its corporate sponsorship program. The Greyhounds have unveiled several new internal and external initiatives during Woodruff's tenure on the Evergreen campus. In the summer of 2019, Loyola rolled out a branded charter bus that will carry Greyhounds teams through the region to
competitions, increasing student-athlete and coach support of other teams through the “One Hound Family” slogan, as well as increasing the Greyhounds' involvement with University programs as she was the host of the Sister Cleophas Lecture with Olympic Champion Gabrielle Douglas. She has also hired three excellent head coaches through the start of 2019-20 season: Tavaras Hardy (men's basketball), Joe Mallia (women's soccer) and Megan Patrick (men's and women's rowing). At Stony Brook, Woodruff was the highest-ranking member of the Director of Athletic's Senior Executive Team with oversight of 115 department staff members and a budget of $30 million. She joined the school on Long Island in May 2004 as an associate athletic director and senior woman administrator before garnering a change in title to senior associate director of athletics after just one year. Woodruff oversaw the Seawolves’ capital planning, financial operations, human resources, facilities and events, student-athlete development and compliance, among other areas of responsibility. She had direct supervision of Stony Brook’s men’s and women’s basketball, women’s lacrosse and volleyball
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programs, after having previously worked with several other teams. The 1990 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania managed the capital facility and construction projects for the $21.1 million renovation of Island Federal Credit Union Arena, as well as planned $5.7 million expansion of LaValle Stadium and $10 million indoor training facility. She has also managed renovations and construction of the university’s pool, Joe Nathan Baseball Field, the Goldstein Family Student-Athlete Development Center and a track and field complex. The Philadelphia-area native was a member of the NCAA Division I Recruiting and Athletics Personnel Cabinet, serving a four-year term that ended in July 2016. She has been a featured speaker at Women Leaders in College Sports (formerly known as NACWAA, the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators), and she was a part of the 2010-11 Sports Management Institute Class. In 2011, she was a recipient of the NACWAA Administrator of the Year for her work with the Seawolves. Woodruff’s participation in college athletics dates to her days at Penn where she was a standout field hockey and lacrosse player for the Quakers. She was a five-time All-Ivy League selection, earning the honors three times in lacrosse and twice in field hockey. She was a National Field Hockey Coaches Association All-America honorable mention recipient following her senior season, and she also earned regional All-America honors from the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association. She led Penn to the 1988 NCAA Semifinals and was named to the NCAA All-Tournament Team, to date the only Quaker player to be so honored. Woodruff was recognized for her excellence on the field as a member of Penn’s Athletic Hall of Fame Class X in May 2017. After graduation, she joined Penn’s field hockey and lacrosse coaching staffs as an assistant coach. She worked with the Quakers’ lacrosse team from 1991-95 and the field hockey program from 19912000. In 1996, she joined the athletic administration at Penn, working in a variety of roles. Today, she still serves as a member of the Penn Field Hockey Alumnae Board having served as the chairperson for several years prior to her arrival at Loyola. While at Penn, she also served as the regional administrative director for the United States Field Hockey Association Olympic Development
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Program from 1993-96. In that role, she managed and organized more than 650 athletes, 80 coaches, 15 athletic trainers and 15 site directors for participation in six months of training sessions following a curriculum developed by the National Coaching Staff. Woodruff has been a member of the University of Pennsylvania Field Hockey Alumnae Board since 2007 and currently serves as the Chair of that board. She moved to nearby Villanova University in December 2000 where she worked as the Wildcats’ director of administrative services for athletics until May 2004 and her departure for Stony Brook. There, she oversaw the athletic department’s internship program and equipment operations and was a departmental liaison to several campus entities. Woodruff earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from Penn in 1990 and later received a Master of Science in Education with a concentration in higher education administration, from the Ivy League school in 2000. She was a standout student-athlete at Marple Newtown High School in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, where she was inducted to the hall of fame in 2007. The former Donna Mulhern is married to Mark F. Woodruff.
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DANIELLE O’BANION, HEAD COACH 1 ST SEASON • BOSTON COLLEGE ’01 danielle o’Banion was named the 12th head women’s basketball coach at Loyola University Maryland in April, 2021. O’Banion brings 20 years of Division I coaching experience to the Grey-hounds, most-recently serving her second stint as an assistant at the University of Minnesota over the past three seasons. Her teams have combined for 10 postseason appearances, including five NCAA tournaments and one run to the Final Four.
Kelly and Director of Athletics Donna Woodruff for entrusting me with the future of our Loyola women’s basketball program. Loyola, its ideals and the city of Baltimore are a championship combination, and I am eager to begin the work of building a Greyhounds women’s basketball championship tradition.”
“I am so excited to welcome Danielle O’Banion to the Loyola Athletics family as our next head women’s basketball coach,” said Donna M. Woodruff, Loyola's Assistant Vice President and Director of Athletics. “It was very clear through our process that Coach O’Banion was the right person to lead our program moving forward. She brings an impressive combination of coaching expertise, successful playing experience and a demonstrated commitment to developing the women in our program as exceptional leaders, student-athletes and citizens while oncampus and well after graduation. The future is very bright with Danielle as the leader of Loyola women’s basketball.”
Originally an assistant at Minnesota from 2002-07, O’Banion’s first assistant stint coincided with the best five-year run in team history. The Golden Gophers made four-consecutive NCAA tournaments, advancing to one Final Four (2004) and two Sweet Sixteens (2003, 2005); they also added a WNIT appearance in 2007. O’Banion worked primarily with the backcourt, coaching four All-Big Ten selections and one Kodak All-American (current Minnesota head coach Lindsay Whalen).
Originally from Arlington, Virginia, O’Banion returns to the Mid-Atlantic after coaching stints at Minnesota, Memphis, Kent State and Harvard. A standout recruiter who has brought in four Top-50 classes during her career, she has also held multiple leadership positions within both the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) and Advocates for Athletic Equity (formerly Black Coaches and Administrators). “I believe in Loyola University Maryland, and I am honored that Loyola believes in me,” O’Banion said. “I am especially grateful to Vice President Dr. Robert
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O’Banion rejoined Minnesota in 2018 following a two-year stint as associate head coach at Memphis. During the past three seasons with the Golden Gophers, she worked primarily with the post players while also playing a key role in recruiting. Recent additions to the program include Alexia Smith, the first five-star recruit in program history, and 2020 Big Ten All-Freshman honoree Jasmine Powell.
O’Banion then spent four years at Memphis from 2008-12, earning a promotion to associate head coach and recruiting coordinator for the final three seasons. She helped bring in the No. 1-ranked recruiting classes in Conference USA (Top 50 nationally) in each of her first two years on-campus, and her 2011 recruiting class was the highest-ranked in program history. Those recruits succeeded on the court with Memphis winning 78 games during her four seasons while making three postseason appearances. In between her two stops at Memphis, O’Banion spent four seasons as head coach at Kent State. She restored roster stability to the program, signing 17 players overall with four going on to play professionally. O’Banion was also active in fundraising, helping secure the largest-ever
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Black Coaches and Administrators, serving in that role in 2011-12 following four years on the BCA Board of Directors. O’Banion began her coaching career as an assistant at Harvard in 2001-02, helping the Crimson win the Ivy League and earn an automatic NCAA tournament berth in her lone season with the program. As an undergraduate, O’Banion was a four-year letterwinner at Boston College from 1997-2001. She helped guide the Eagles to their first two NCAA tournament appearances in program history, and she was a co-captain and Big East Academic All-Star during her senior season. She graduated from Boston College in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and Hispanic Studies minor.
financial gift to the program. O’Banion was diagnosed with Stage 2 lymphoma cancer midway through her stint at Kent State. She managed to coach every game while going through treatment, and she announced that her cancer was in remission six months after her original diagnosis. O’Banion was presented with the U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) Pat Summitt Most Courageous Award for women’s basketball at the 2016 Final Four. A 20-year member of the Women’s Basketball Coaches’ Association, O’Banion served on the WBCA Board of Directors from 2013-15 and was an Awards Committee member from 2011-12. She was also the second woman to be named president of
O’Banion grew up in Northern Virginia, and she prepped at Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia where she was a Washington Post AllMet guard for the Maroon.
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TAVARAS HARDY, HEAD COACH 4TH SEASON • NORTHWESTERN ’02 Tavaras Hardy was named the 21st head men’s basketball coach at Loyola University Maryland on March 28, 2018.A noted recruiter, Hardy served on coaching staffs in the Big Ten, Big East and Atlantic Coast Conferences over the 12 seasons prior to coming to Loyola. Hardy was an All-Big Ten player at Northwestern University as a collegian, and spent the previous two seasons on the staff at Georgia Tech, where he spearheaded two nationally ranked recruiting classes. In 2016-17, Hardy and the Yellow Jackets reached the championship game of the NIT. Hardy's Greyhounds showed immediate strides on the court during his first season at Loyola (2018-19). The Greyhounds showed improvements in their record overall and in Patriot League play with significant gains measured statistically. Loyola's Andrew Kostecka earned All-Patriot League First Team honors – just the second player in program history to do so since the Greyhounds joined the conference in 2013-14 – and one of Hardy's first recruits, Jaylin Andrews, was named to the Patriot League All-Rookie Team. Kostecka led the Patriot League in points (682), points per game (21.3), steals (85) and steals per game (2.66) and was also named to the All-NABC District 13 Second Team. He was only player in NCAA Division I to have scored more than 625 points and post 80 or more steals this season, and he was one of only four to average 20-plus points and two-plus steals, joining Duke's Zion Williamson, Seton Hall's Myles Powell and Louisiana Monroe's Daishon Smith. Overall, the Greyhounds shot more than twopercent better from the field than the year prior, jumping from .438 to .459 to rank int he top-90 nationally after finishing 218th in 2017-18. Loyola also moved into the top-125 in NCAA Division I in assists
per game (14.0) after coming in 302 the year before. Loyola's 2019-2020 team again measured more gains in Hardy's second sseason at Loyola. Kostecka, although slowed by injury late in the season, was again named to the All-Patriot League First Team, and he finished his career No. 4 in school history in scoring. The COVID-shortened 2020-2021 season saw Loyola make another step in its progress toward the goals Hardy has set for the program. Loyola not only advanced to the Patriot League Semifinals for the first time since joining the conference in 2013-2014, the Greyhounds won a semifinal game at Army West Point (following a quarterfinal win at top-seeded Navy) to advance to the Patriot League Championship Game for the first time. That season also saw the emergence of Santi Aldama as one of the finest players ever to don a Loyola jersey or play at a Patriot League school. He earned NABC All-District and All-Patriot League First Team and was also named to the five-player Academic All-Patriot League Team. He of two qualified players in NCAA Division I to average more than 20 points and 10 rebounds per game after averaging 21.2 points and 10.1 rebounds. Following the season, Aldama became the first player in school history, and just the third from a Patriot League school, to be selected in the first round of the NBA Draft. The native of Spain's Canary Islands was selected with the No. 30 pick by the Memphis Grizzlies. The 2017-18 at Georgia Tech included two starters for the Yellow Jackets; he helped mentor point guard Jose Alvarado, a native of New York City who averaged 12.1 points per game in his first season in Atlanta. Georgia Tech was among the ACC’s best defensive teams in 2017-18, holding opponents to 67.8 points per game. The Yellow Jackets also finished 11th nationally in blocked shots per game and in the top-90 in steals per game. Prior to joining the Ramblin’ Wreck staff, Hardy was an assistant coach from 2014-16 at Georgetown University. In the nation’s capital, Hardy worked primarily with the Hoyas’ wings and post players, and (Continued on page 30)
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he helped bring in two recruiting classes that were ranked among the nation’s top-20. Hardy helped tutor Jessie Govan to Big East All-Freshman honors in 201516 and a pair of Hoyas players – Isaac Copeland and L.J. Peak – to the same recognition in 2014-15. Hardy joined the Georgetown staff after spending seven seasons on the sidelines at his alma mater from 200714. He helped the Wildcats earn four-consecutive postseason bids and record consecutive 20-win seasons in 2009-10 and 2010-11, a first-time feat in Northwestern history. Hardy was Northwestern’s associate head coach his last two years. He was key in the development of Northwestern’s John Shurna during his record-breaking career for the Wildcats. Shurna was a three-time All-Big Ten honoree, earning first-team recognition as a senior in 2011-12 when he led the conference in scoring and became Northwestern’s all-time leader in points. Additionally, Drew Crawford was the 2010 Big Ten Freshman of the Year and a two-time All-Big Ten selection. Hardy was a head coach for the Illinois Defenders boys basketball program for three years before moving into the college ranks in 2007. Hardy’s under16 team won the 2005 Las Vegas Main Event Tournament with a 7-0 record. While he coached the Defenders, he worked in wealth management for JPMorgan Chase and Co.
The Joliet, Illinois, native was a standout high school player at Providence Catholic High School where he was inducted to the school’s hall of fame in 2014. Hardy then became a four-year letterwinner and three-time Most Valuable Player at Northwestern from 1998-2002. He was an All-Big Ten honoree as a senior, and he still ranks in the Wildcats’ career top-10 in blocked shots (101), games played (118) and games started (113). Hardy led the Wildcats in blocked shots and rebounding for three-straight seasons from 2000-02 and field-goal percentage his last two years. After concluding his career at Northwestern, Hardy played professionally for Namika Lahti in Finland. He graduated from Northwestern in 2002 with a bachelor of arts in political science. Hardy and his wife, Billée, have four children, Mariah, Jasmine, TJ and Noah.
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