Johns Hopkins University Athletics

The Johns Hopkins women's soccer program was founded in 1992; one year later, the first prized recruit in program history, Kerrie Cathcart, arrived at Homewood.  When she graduated four years later, she had helped establish the program as one that would soon ascend to national prominence.

Cathcart was the first great scorer produced by the Blue Jay women's soccer program.  More than 20 years after her graduation, she still ranks eighth in school history in points (77) and ninth in goals (32).  She remains one of just two players from the program's first 10 years of existence to ranks in the top 20 in school history in either of those categories.  She was also Johns Hopkins' career leader in assists (13) when she graduated.

Cathcart earned All-Centennial Conference honors three times in her career.  She was a second team selection as a freshman in 1993 and a first team pick as a sophomore and senior.  She was the first freshman in program history to earn All-Centennial and became the first Blue Jay to earn First Team All-Centennial a year later.

Joining a program in just its second year of existence, Cathcart spearheaded a meteoric rise that saw the Blue Jays win just two games her freshman year and claim the first of what is now a league-record 14 Centennial Conference titles her senior year.  Johns Hopkins had won just 12 games during her first three seasons combined, but finished the 1996 season with 11-5-1 record, including an 8-1 mark in the Centennial.  That season jump-started the current 24-year run that includes all 14 of those Centennial titles and 18 NCAA Tournament appearances.