Political Quotes

“I rise today to congratulate the University of Maryland's Men's Lacrosse Team for winning the NCAA Division 1 championship. The Terrapins completed an historic undefeated season, winning 18 games--an NCAA record for the most victories in a season without a loss. The perfect season culminated with a 9-7 victory over Cornell University for the national championship. Lacrosse is the oldest organized team sport in North America, dating back among Indigenous communities to 1100 AD. Jesuit missionaries in Canada documented the Mohawk people playing the game in 1757. Here in the United States, lacrosse is popular nationwide, but New York and Maryland remain the ``hotbeds'' of lacrosse. The game became popular in the Baltimore area in the 1890s. The NCAA began hosting a tournament to determine the national champion in 1971. In the 51 years since then-- there was no tournament in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic--the Terps have won four national championships, Johns Hopkins University-- JHU--has won nine, and Loyola University Maryland has won one. Maryland universities have been national champion or runner-up in 37 of the 51 years the NCAA has hosted the tournament. The Terps' championship season was particularly sweet, coming on the heels of a one-goal loss to the University of Virginia--UVA--in last year's championship match. That was the team's only loss last season; over the last 2 years, the Terps have gone 33-1.…”