Navy women’s soccer collected the 400th win in program history Thursday night, a milestone reached in fitting fashion with a 2-0 victory over intrastate rival Maryland before an energized home crowd at the Glenn Warner Soccer Facility.
Since head coach Carin Gabarra has been the program’s only coach since its founding in 1993, every one of those 400 wins has come under her guidance — a distinct milestone from her personal 400th combined collegiate coaching win, which Navy’s athletics department reported in September 2025 and which also counted a single season she spent at Westmont College in 1987. Thursday’s win reflects Navy’s program total specifically, reached roughly a year after that earlier career milestone.
The Mids (3-2-1) struck fast against the previously unbeaten Terrapins (2-1-1), scoring twice within the first 18 minutes in the programs’ 19th all-time meeting. Freshman Stella Jones opened the scoring in the seventh minute with her first career goal, curling a shot into the upper-90 after a cross-field pass from Kayana Adlam set her up 30-plus yards from goal. Maryland answered with pressure of its own, forcing a kick save from goalkeeper Natasha Stramrood in the 10th minute, but Navy doubled its lead at 17:40 when Adlam calmly converted a free kick from just outside the box.
Maryland pushed for a response after halftime, nearly cutting the deficit in the 54th minute when Adlam’s own shot attempt was punched over the crossbar by Terrapins keeper Faith Luckey. Stramrood and Navy’s defense held firm the rest of the way, with Stramrood making an athletic diving save to smother a McKinley Heaven attempt in the 58th minute en route to six saves and her first individual shutout of the season — her seventh career clean sheet.
Maryland actually outshot Navy 13-10, including a 6-4 edge in shots on goal, but Navy dominated the corner-kick battle 7-1, reflecting the Mids’ sustained pressure in the attacking third.
“I thought we finally put a lot of the pieces of what we’ve been working on together tonight,” Gabarra said. “Our possession was very good, we were patient, we were composed, we kept the ball a lot and we finished some great chances.” She praised both goal-scorers directly, calling Jones’ finish “outstanding” and noting Adlam “has been working hard on her set pieces.” On the opponent, Gabarra said: “Maryland is a storied program with a lot of experience; it’s always great to beat them.”
Navy’s program history stretches back to a 4-0 win at Johns Hopkins on Sept. 9, 1999 — the first win of the Gabarra era. Milestone wins have followed steadily: No. 100 came against Air Force in St. Louis in September 2002, No. 200 at Colgate in November 2008, and No. 300 at Lehigh in September 2016.
Gabarra’s Navy tenure includes at least a share of 10 Patriot League regular-season titles, including an outright championship in 2019, five NCAA Tournament appearances, and 21 consecutive winning seasons from 1995 through 2015. She remains the Patriot League’s all-time wins leader and is one of only 10 active NCAA Division I women’s soccer coaches to reach 400 combined career wins. Before coaching, Gabarra had a decorated international playing career: a National Soccer Hall of Fame inductee, she won the first-ever Golden Ball as MVP of the 1991 FIFA Women’s World Cup and Olympic gold with the U.S. national team in 1996.
“Winning 400 games at Navy means a lot because I’ve loved every minute of my time here,” Gabarra said. “All of these women go on to do such incredible things with their lives… It’s been a privilege for me to be a part of this program.”
Navy closes the home portion of its non-conference schedule Sunday at 1 p.m. against Marist University at Glenn Warner Soccer Facility.
