Career
The Maryland lacrosse team has more Women"s Division I lacrosse titles (12) than any other program In the 2000 National Collegiate Athletic Association Lacrosse championship game, Adams scored five goals and had five assists, all in the second half, to turn a close game into a 16-8 victory over Princeton. Adams, born in Adelaide, South Australia, began her lacrosse career with the Brighton Lacrosse Club.
She first represented Australia as a 15-year-old in the U19 world championship winning team of 1995.
She has gone on to represent Australia at the senior level, including captaining them to the Women"s Lacrosse World Cup title in 2005. Adams also played for the Australian team at the 2009 Women"s Lacrosse World Cup in Prague.
Adams is ranked first all-time in National Collegiate Athletic Association women"s lacrosse scoring with 445 career points including 267 goals and 178 assists in 86 games. She is regarded as the finest female lacrosse player of all time.
In between stints with the Koalas, she has played independent club lacrosse in Baltimore, and was the only woman ever drafted into the National Lacrosse League with the Washington Power.
She also was selected to try to jumpstart a women"s professional league in 2001, but it did not get beyond a series of summer exhibition games. After assistant coaching stints with Denver University and the University of Maryland, Adams was hired in June 2008 as head coach of the Greyhounds. In 2009, Loyola had an 11-6 record including wins over top 20 teams Georgetown and Cornell.
The team finished the year fourth in the Big East.
