Coming off a 2006 Terp squad that won a school-record 34 contests and captured the ACC’s second-ever NCAA crown, Maryland finished 28-6 overall in 2007 and 33-4 in 2008, the third and fourth consecutive 20-plus win seasons. After earning a No. 1 final ranking in 2006 for the first time, Maryland garnered its first-ever No. 1 preseason ranking in both the Associated Press and ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll.

Frese has guided the Terps to the NCAA Tournament five of the last six years and has advanced to at least the second round of the Tournament for the fifth time in as many seasons.

Prior to becoming the third head coach in the history of Maryland’s women’s basketball program, Frese was named the 2002 Associated Press National Coach of the Year and Big Ten Coach of the Year. She led an 8-22 Minnesota team to a 22-8 season the next year (2002), one of the best one-season turnarounds in NCAA history. Frese took the Gophers to what was only the school’s second NCAA appearance, where they defeated UNLV in the first round of the NCAA Tournament before being eliminated by three points in the second round by North Carolina.

Frese started her head coaching career during the 1999-2000 season at Ball State, a program that had gone 66-169 in the nine seasons prior to her arrival. Frese guided the Cardinals to a 16-13 showing in 2000 and garnered Coach of the Year honors in the Mid-American Conference. She led Ball State to a school-best 19-9 mark in 2001, capturing the second back-to-back winning seasons in Ball State history.

Frese launched her Division I coaching career in 1994 as an assistant coach at Kent State University, helping the Golden Flashes to records of 20-8 (1994) and 17-10 (1995) during her two years there. The Cedar Rapids, Iowa, native then joined Bill Fennelly’s staff at Iowa State as the Cyclones’ recruiting coordinator, where she assisted in another impressive turnaround, helping ISU to three NCAA Tournament appearances in four years.