One of the most decorated coaches at the collegiate level, former Maryland standout and four-time IWLCA National Coach of the Year Cathy Reese has had unprecedented success, standing as the all-time winningest coach in Maryland women's lacrosse history, leading the Terps to five National Championships, 11 Final Fours and 20 Conference Championships in 14 years as head coach.

In total as a student-athlete, assistant coach and head coach for the Terrapins, Reese has earned 12 NCAA Championships. Reese stands seventh all-time among women's lacrosse head coaches with 301 wins and was the fastest ever to 200, 250 and 300 wins. Reese is a member of the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame, Maryland Athletics Hall of Fame and was named the Inside Lacrosse Coach of the Decade for 2010-19, where she saw her program be named the Inside Lacrosse Program of the Decade (men's or women's) after going 215-14 with five national championships, 16 conference championships and 10 trips to the final four.

2019 was a banner year for Reese and the Terps as Maryland won the program's 15th national title, positing a 22-1 record. Reese became Maryland's all-time winningest coach with a win at #7 Virginia in April and led Maryland to an undefeated regular season and fifth consecutive Big Ten Regular Season Championship. Megan Taylor became the first ever goalie in lacrosse and sixth different Terp to win the Tewaaraton Award, while Reese was named the Big Ten Coach of the Year for the fourth straight season.

Entering the 2021 season, Adams has a career record of 158-66 in 12 years. The three-time IWLCA Mid-Atlantic Region Coach of the Year has led Loyola to eight NCAA Championships appearances in a nine-year span from 2010-19. During the 2020 campaign, which was shortened due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Greyhounds were a perfect 5-0 on the year, defeating four ranked opponents and earning their highest end-of-year national ranking (No. 3) in the IWLCA Coaches’ poll since 2003. Included in the win total were victories over #24 Johns Hopkins (16-7), #4 Florida (17-6), #19 Penn State (22-12) and #9 Penn (19-15).

Since coming to Loyola, Adams has directed a resurgence of the program back to national prominence. Inheriting a squad that posted a 6-10 record in 2008, Adams turned that into an 11-6 mark in 2009 and an 11-7 record in 2010. Her 2011 squad won its first of two-straight BIG EAST Championships, returned to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2004 and tied a school record for wins in a season, posting a 17-3 record. Her 2015 squad tied that record with a 17-5 mark and won a second-straight Patriot League title, while the 2016 team gave Adams five conference championships in six years, as it won its third-consecutive Patriot League Championship.

In conference play, Adams’ squads have dominated. In the last seven completed seasons, her teams have posted an overall record of 58-2 in regular-season conference contests, including an unblemished 52-0 mark in Patriot League play for six-straight undefeated Patriot League Regular Season titles - the longest active win streak in the NCAA. Her Greyhounds have also claimed six league tournament titles – back-to-back BIG EAST Championships (2011, 2012) and four Patriot League titles (2014, 2015, 2016, 2019). The BIG EAST title in 2011 was the first for the program, while 2014 win was the school’s first-ever Patriot League Championship, a League it joined for the 2013-14 school year.