Tara Heiss

Tara Heiss
Class of 2003
- Set the Maryland single-season assist record with 249 during her senior season (1977–78)
- Led Maryland to an upset of Wayland Baptist, 90-85, in the AIAW Final Four semifinal, scoring 21 points, before the Terrapins fell in the championship game (1978)
- Was named Most Valuable Player of the first-ever ACC Tournament, scoring 30 points in the championship game as Maryland won the title (1978)
- Became the first Maryland women's basketball player to score 1,000 career points, finishing her career with 1,350
- Set Maryland's career assist record with 504
- Had her No. 44 jersey retired — one of only three women's basketball jerseys honored at Maryland — now hanging in the rafters of the XFINITY Center
- Was a fixture at the point guard position on USA Basketball teams (1979, 1980)
- Played on USA teams that won gold medals at the R. William Jones Cup, World Championship, and World University Games, along with a silver medal at the Pan American Games (1979)
- Was a member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic Team, which boycotted the Moscow Games





