Returning for a 16th year, the Terrier Twelve recognizes the top achievements of Boston University teams and student-athletes from the previous year. In 2023-24, over half of BU's teams either won a conference title or finished runner-up at their league championship, and all of those programs will be represented in the countdown. Check back each Tuesday and Friday this summer as we unveil this year's Terrier Twelve on GoTerriers.com.

Coming in at number one in this year's Terrier Twelve is softball, which tied the record for most wins ever by an NCAA Division I program based in the Northeast at 53 total while also becoming the first to post 50+ victories in back-to-back seasons.

With the help of a 20-0-1 home record, the Terriers (53-6-1, 18-0-0 PL) repeated as Patriot League tournament champions and claimed their sixth straight regular season title on their way to finishing the year nationally ranked by two organizations for the first time. They placed No. 23 in the final NFCA Top 25 poll after grabbing the No. 25 slot at the end of the 1996 season and finished No. 21 in the last D1Softball poll. 

Overall, BU finished in the top 100 in 14 NCAA statistical categories, including No. 1 in team ERA (1.41), first in shutouts (29), eighth in fielding percentage (.979) and 15th in batting average (.321). Individual highlights included sophomore pitcher Kasey Ricard (28-4, 1.23 ERA) leading the nation with 16 shutouts and placing second at 265 strikeouts. Late in the season, she earned both the program and PL's first USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year Top 25 Finalist recognition before becoming the first pitcher since BU Hall of Famer Audrey West ('96) to garner (D1Softball) All-America honors.

Two-time PL Defensive Player of the Year and graduate student Caitlin Coker set career program records for hits (286) and runs scored (205) while also adding the Terriers' second College Sports Communicators' Academic All-America honor in three years. Both Ricard and Coker along with PL Player of the Year, Lauren Keleher, helped BU claim an NCAA high seven All-Region First Team honors.

Head coach Ashley Waters, associate head coach Becca Carden and assistant coach Allie Brewster received the program's third straight NFCA Northeast Regional Coaching Staff of the Year honor for their efforts. Concluding their ninth season with the program, both Waters and Carden were the only ones to repeat from the previous year out of the 10 regions after Waters set both the program record for victories (272) and became the fastest PL coach to reach the 300-win milestone.

Carden added an even more prestigious honor in July with the NFCA Division I Assistant Coach of the Year award after BU became just the third squad in PL history to go undefeated during conference play. The Terriers swept through the PL tournament and eliminated Horizon League champion Cleveland State at the Norman Regional.

2023-24 Terrier Twelve
#2 – Men's Ice Hockey Returns to Frozen Four; Celebrini Wins Hobey 
#3 – Men's Soccer Returns to NCAAs with First Patriot League Title
#4 – Men's Tennis Earns First NCAA Appearance with Patriot League Title
#5 – Women's Rowing Captures Third Patriot League Championship
#6 – Lightweight Rowing Wins Eastern Sprints, Double National Championship
#7 – Student-Athlete Body Sets GPA Records; Seven Terriers Earn PL Scholar-Athlete of the Year Honors
#8 – Track & Field and Cross Country Rewrites Record Books, Sends Seven to NCAA East First Round
#9 – Men's Lacrosse Advances to PL Title Game for Second Time in Three Years
#10 – Women's Basketball Returns To PL Championship Game
#11 – Chen Repeats as PL Golfer of the Year, Breaks Program Wins Records
#12 – Women's Tennis Makes Fifth Consecutive Trip To PL Title Match, Garners Postseason Accolades