Taylor Cummings loves to watch Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal on Netflix and listen to country music.

At home, she walks her dogs, Nellie, an English Mastiff, and Chloe, a Rottweiler. Over the summer, she wakeboards on her parents’ boat.

She takes morning runs to clear her head.

Whenever she gets snowed in, Cummings gets antsy. Sometimes her mom, Carol, wants to kick her out of the house.

Cummings loves to be busy.

Playing at midfield, Cummings, who has helped guide the No. 1 Terps to consecutive national championships, isn’t locked into one position, either. She leads the Terps’ attack, currently the best scoring offense in the nation. She plays on the defensive end. She takes almost every draw control.

In her Maryland career, she has started all 88 games. She’s the youngest two-time Tewaaraton Award winner. She’s made the all-conference team in each of her four years.

She always has to be doing something. She wants to be productive for her team.

‘SHE WANTS TO WIN’

When Cummings scheduled her official visit to the University of Maryland during her junior year of high school, she told her mom the 35-minute drive on I-95 from Ellicott City was a waste of gas money.

This was the first decision she could make without her parents’ control. Cummings wasn’t going to remain so close to home.

But coach Cathy Reese and assistant coach Lauri Kenis felt her style of play matched the Terps’ up-tempo offense. They wanted the top recruit in the country on their team.

“I knew it wasn’t on Taylor’s radar, but wherever we went, Kenis or Cathy were there,” Scott Robinson, Cummings’ club lacrosse coach, said. “They worked really, really hard to get Taylor.”

When Cummings arrived at the Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex in College Park, though, the coaching staff didn’t treat her visit any differently.

Upon entering the complex, Cummings walked into the team room. She was dressed in a skirt, expecting the conversations to be as formal as the ones she had with other coaching staffs.

But Reese and Kenis were screaming back and forth about Chinese food orders as though Cummings wasn’t there, she recalled.

“Within an hour, my waste of gas money turned into ‘Let’s sign a National Letter of Intent,'” Cummings said. “I’d been on other visits, and they were very stiff. I thought it was the funniest thing.”

On that visit, the first thing Reese said was “when you’re here, we’re going to win a national championship,” Cummings said.

Cummings wanted to be a leader, and she wanted to win. The Terps program that had advanced to at least the final four in the four years before her arrival offered that.

“She said ‘I want it to be about the team, not me,'” her mom recalled. “She wants to win and she recognized you do that with a team, not one person.”

‘CLUTCH IS WHAT SHE IS’

Robinson first realized Cummings’ talent when she was in middle school. During basketball tryouts, she had a tremendous work ethic. She was a leader. She was in “unbelievable physical condition.”

She hadn’t lost that drive in her senior year of high school.

During the 2012 campaign at McDonogh, her coaches designed a play for Cummings to drive to the goal in the championship game, which was tied with two minutes remaining. She trucked through four defenders and scored the go-ahead point.

“Her whole high school and youth careers, clutch is what she is,” Robinson said. “She thrives in pressure situations and wants the ball. To her credit, she delivered. That’s what separates her.”

Less than a year later, Cummings remembered feeling like “a mess.”

As she prepared to take the opening draw in the second game of her college career against No. 2 Syracuse in the Carrier Dome, Cummings was so anxious her parents later told her she looked like she was going to throw up.

Amid the uneasiness, Cummings looked for her dad in the crowd. He clapped once and went through a series of hand motions. Cummings went on to score five goals and win six draw controls in the Terps’ 19-11 win.

Now, every time she prepares for a draw, she makes eye contact with her dad.

“It’s very important that she and I see each other,” Michael said. “It seemed to work, and we kept doing it. I don’t want to ruin the mojo.”

Midfielder Taylor Cummings drives to the net during the Terps’ 17-6 win over Virginia at the Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex on April 20, 2016. (Matt Regan/The Diamondback)

In the last game of that rookie season, she walked off the field, crying while looking back at North Carolina’s triple-overtime national championship celebration. A team Cummings played on had lost for the first time since she was a freshman at McDonogh.

Her best friend asked her why she was tearing up.

“Are you stupid?” Cummings asked.

For a moment, Reese was surprised at the sight of Cummings’ tears. She forgot her midfielder hadn’t suffered many defeats.

“That was a moment she’ll never forget,” Reese said. “She was heartbroken and devastated, and you realize ‘Oh my gosh, this girl has not lost many games.'”

One year later, though, Cummings led the Terps to a national title. She said it was the highlight of her Maryland career.

Midfielder Taylor Cummings tears up at a Senior Day ceremony before Maryland’s 15-5 win over Ohio State at the Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex on April 16, 2016. (Rania Hentati/The Diamondback)

But that title came after a regular-season loss to the Tar Heels, the Terps’ only loss of the season. They suffered a defeat again the next year in the Big Ten Tournament semifinal to Ohio State. Cummings, though, worked to ensure her team earned another national title a few weeks later.

“If I took a game off or a play off, I would be letting my team down and I’d be letting Cathy and Kenis and our coaching staff down,” Cummings said. “I’d be letting myself down.”

‘JUST ANOTHER PERSON’

When Reese pulled Cummings aside during a sophomore-year practice to inform her she was nominated for the Tewaaraton Award, given to the nation’s best men’s and women’s lacrosse player, Cummings refused to believe it.

“I walked up to Cathy and was like ‘Is this a joke?'” Cummings said.

It wasn’t. Weeks later, Cummings became the award’s youngest recipient.

After a dominant junior campaign — Cummings led the nation with 100 points — she became the youngest female two-time Tewaaraton winner.

And once her final season, one in which she again leads the Terps in points and ground balls, ends, she has a chance to become the first three-time Tewaaraton winner.

“I mess up, and I’m not perfect,” Cummings said. “I have the most turnovers on our team. There are people who want to beat us and people who want to beat me. That keeps me grounded.”

Cummings has also been a two-time ESPY nominee for the nation’s best female college athlete. Last year, Reese, Cummings, her dad and Georgetown attacker Corinne Etchison, Cummings’ best friend, made the trip to Los Angeles.

Cummings walked the red carpet and saw athletes from the women’s national soccer team. Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer sat to her right, professional men’s soccer players to her left.

Cummings has celebrity status in the lacrosse world, too. Reese’s daughter’s friends all want to meet her, and the coach often receives emails requesting autographs. The latest came from California.

Robinson said he’s never seen Cummings refuse to speak with anyone or ignore an autograph or picture request, but Cummings doesn’t like the attention.

One time in an elevator at The Varsity apartment complex, a girl recognized her from a commercial she appeared in. Cummings cringed.

“I got awkward and said ‘Hi,'” Cummings said. “I don’t want people to come up to me, and I’m glad nobody does. I’m just another person.”

‘NOT GOD’S GIFT TO LACROSSE’

In their first fall ball scrimmage before this season, the Terps lost to Notre Dame by 13. Cummings was shocked.

“I said ‘What just happened?'” Cummings said. “That made me step back and realize it’s not going to be perfect. It’s never going to be perfect, but I thought ‘It’s not going to be perfect right now.'”

As a freshman, Cummings had been hesitant to drive to the goal, afraid to intrude on the older players’ roles. The next year, Cummings said she started to find her place on offense. Then as a junior, Reese challenged her to improve her defense.

In her final season, Cummings has embraced a leadership role. The Terps only returned five starters this season, so she wasn’t sure how the team would adjust with its second-ranked recruiting class. The preseason apprehension multiplied after the Terps’ slip against the Fighting Irish.

“I’ve had to work on not only incorporating a new group of people together,” Cummings said, “but more with myself and not getting frustrated when things don’t come together right away.”

By the end of the regular season — on Cummings’ Senior Night — she knew her team had hit its stride.

After picking up her second yellow card of the game against Virginia on April 20, Cummings trudged to the

sideline. Reese shook her head in disagreement at the referees. All Cummings could do for the final 27 minutes was watch.

It was the first time in her 16 years of playing lacrosse that she was forced to watch from the sideline for almost an entire half.

The Terps held a nine-goal lead when Cummings exited, but she felt like she let her teammates down.

She realized her team’s progress, however, as they scored seven more times without her in the game.

“It was as if it didn’t happen and I expected nothing less,” Cummings said. “You don’t need me out there to go beat Virginia and they did.”

This weekend, Cummings could have another chance to face the Cavaliers. Virginia and Johns Hopkins will play a first-round game for the right to battle the Terps in the NCAA Tournament on Sunday.

It’s Cummings’ final ride in a Terps uniform, one the team hopes will end in a third-consecutive national

championship run.

Reese doesn’t want to think about replacing Cummings’ production. And Cummings hadn’t made post-graduation plans either.

She would consider a graduate assistant coaching position and aspires to work for a sports company such as Under Armour where she can “combine a love for sports with a business degree.”

Her days in a Terps uniform will be done, but Cummings knows she’ll stay busy.

“I’m not God’s gift to lacrosse,” Cummings said. “Just because you’re successful doesn’t mean someone isn’t working their butt off behind you to take what you have. I think that’s carried with me throughout my life and it’s something I’ll teach my kids, because there’s nothing worse than a cocky teammate.”