 In just her first season as head coach, Timchal led her team to an NCAA final as well as a 14-3 record before they lost to Virginia in the NCAA championship.The next season, 1992, Maryland would make it to the finals, where they would defeat Harvard 11-10 in overtime as Timchal would gain her first national championship.Yet following the loss in the 1994 finals, to Princeton, Maryland went on a 50-game winning streak.