Johns Hopkins returns to Homewood Field for the last time in the regular season for a big conference match-up with Penn State. The Blue Jays are coming off a win at Ohio State and can secure a berth in the Big Ten Tournament with a win over the Nittany Lions.
  Johns Hopkins got a career-best 15 saves from senior Haley Crosson in a 12-7 win over host Ohio State Saturday afternoon. The Blue Jays jumped out to a 5-1 lead and never looked back against the Buckeyes. Senior Miranda Ibello led all scorers with six points (3g, 3a) and junior Maggie Schneidereith added five (3g, 2a) and sophomore Aurora Cordingley had four (3g, 1a).  Sophomore  Jeanne Kachris grabbed two ground balls and caused a pair of turnovers.
  Hopkins caused 19 turnovers in the win at Towson on April 2, the most by the Blue Jays since they had 19 in a 15-4 win over George Washington on April 25, 2003. In addition, sophomore Keegan Barger broke a school record with seven caused turnovers. Barger is the Blue Jays' active leader with 40 career caused turnovers. She and sophomore Aurora Cordingley lead the team with 20 caused turnovers, while junior Caroline Hoeg is third with 19.
  Senior goalie Haley Crosson has been named the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week for the third time in her career. She posted back-to-back double-digit save performances in a 1-1 week for the Blue Jays. She made 12 saves while holding 20th-ranked Stony Brook below its season average on Tuesday night. Crosson followed that with a career-best 15 saves and just seven goals allowed in the win at Ohio State. She also caused a turnover and picked up two ground balls against the Buckeyes.
  Sophomore Keegan Barger notched her first career hat trick in the season-opening win at Drexel. In fact, it was the first three goals of her career as she was a defensive midfielder last season. Junior Maggie Schneidereith leads the Blue Jays with 10 hat tricks, while sophomore Aurora Cordingley has six and redshirt senior Ellie McNulty has four.
  Redshirt senior Ellie McNulty tallied a game-best five points in the win at Drexel, including the 100th of her career. The midfielder transferred from Princeton, where she totaled 95 points (72g, 23a) in 55 games for the Tigers. She now has 129 career points and joins senior Miranda Ibello (163 points) and junior Maggie Schneidereith (168) in the 100-point club. Senior Nicole DeMase needs just seven points to join Ibello, Schneidereith and McNulty with 100 career points.
  On April 9 versus 20th-ranked Stony Brook, junior Maggie Schneidereith scored the 100th goal of her career. She is the 13th player in school Division I history, and 27th overall, to reach the milestone. This is the third straight year that a Blue Jay has reached the mark, as Emily Kenul and Shannon Fitzgerald each did so in 2018, and Haley Schweizer hit the mark in 2017.
  Senior Miranda Ibello is also chasing a milestone as she needs just seven assists to reach 100 for her career. She would be just the third player in school Division I history, and fifth overall, to reach the milestone.
  Seniors Nicole DeMase and Haley Crosson have been selected in a vote of their teammates as captains for the 2019 season.
  Johns Hopkins was picked to finish fourth in the 2019 Big Ten Women's Lacrosse Preseason Poll of the league's seven head coaches, it was announced January 28. Defending champion Maryland was the unanimous pick to win the 2019 title, followed by Northwestern, Penn State, and Hopkins. Michigan (5th), Ohio State (6th) and Rutgers (7th) round out the poll.
  Hopkins drops two spots to 21st in this week's IWLCA Coaches Poll with 131 points. The Blue Jays are also ranked 19th in the Nike/Lax Magazine Poll and is receiving votes in the Cascade/Inside Lacrosse Media Poll. Eight of the Blue Jays' 2019 opponents are ranked in the top-25 by the IWLCA, including four teams in the top 10 (Maryland, Northwestern, Michigan and Loyola). Hopkins currently ranks 11th in the nation in strength of schedule.
  Several Blue Jays are making their move up the Johns Hopkins Division I record book. Here's a look at where they rank:
 
Keegan Barger (So. • M):
• Needs 20 draws to rank 8th (has 102)
 
Haley Crosson (Sr. • GK):
• Needs 40 saves to rank 4th (has 297)
 
Nicole DeMase (Sr. • M):
• Needs 7 points to reach 100 for her career (has 93)
• Needs 2 free position goals to rank 5th (has 23)
 
Kathleen Garvey (So. • GK):
• Needs 6 saves to rank 11th and 107 to rank 10th (has 13)
 
Shelby Harrison (So. • M):
• Needs 45 draws to rank 4th (has 157)
• Needs 1 free position goal to rank 18th and 2 to rank 15th (has 14)
 
Miranda Ibello (Sr. • A):
• Needs 5 points to rank 9th (has 163)
• Needs 56 assists 2nd (has 93)
 
Maggie Schneidereith (Jr. • A):
• Needs 8 points to rank 8th (has 168)
• Needs 6 goals to rank 10th (has 104)
• Needs 27 assists to rank 4th (has 64)
 
Lexi Souder (Jr. • M):
• Needs 3 draws to rank 16th and 9 to rank 14th (has 82)
  Junior Mackenzie Heldberg and sophomores Shelby Harrison and Jeanne Kachris were named Big Ten Preseason Players to Watch.
 
Harrison and Kachris return after earning All-Big Ten honors a year ago. Harrison led the Blue Jays and set a school freshmen record with 91 draw controls. Her 91 draws are also the second most in school single-season history and ranked second in the Big Ten. Kachris started all 19 games on a defense that ranked second in the Big Ten in scoring defense (10.53) and caused turnovers (8.68). She led the Blue Jays in caused turnovers (22) and ranked fourth in ground balls (32). Heldberg had a breakout sophomore campaign, scoring a team and career-best 41 goals. She also ranked third on the team in points (52) and ninth in the Big Ten in goals.
  Senior Miranda Ibello led the Blue Jays in both points (64) and assists (40) last season. Her point and assist totals were the most by a Blue Jay since Taylor D'Amore put up 105 points and 53 assists in 2014. In addition, her 40 assists are the fifth most in school Division I history and sixth most all-time at JHU. Ibello ranks third in school DI history, and fifth overall, with 93 career assists. She needs seven assists to become just the fifth player in the 44-year history of the program to total 100 helpers. Ibello handed out a season-best five assists at Michigan in what was her fourth game this season with at least three assists. She leads the Big Ten in assists (25) and assists per game (1.67).
  Sophomore Shelby Harrison led the team and ranked second in the Big Ten with 91 draws a year ago. That total is the most in school history by a freshman and the second most by any player in school single-season history. In fact, Harrison already ranks fifth all-time at Hopkins, in career draws with 157. Against Penn, she became only the 11th player, in 44 years, to reach 100 career draws. She also holds the school single-game record with 11 draws, which she did twice last year. On March 23, Harrison had more draws (9) than the entire Rutgers team (7).
 
Sophomore Keegan Barger was also a threat on the draw circle last year, as she ranked second on the team with 54. Her 54 draws are the fourth most by a freshman in school history and are tied for 12th in school Division I history. Against Stony Brook, Barger joined Harrison in the 100-draw club and she now ranks 10th in school DI history with 102 career draws.
 
Harrison and Barger picked up right where they left off at the end of last season. Harrison had six draws while Barger had four in Hopkins' season opener at Drexel. In addition, redshirt senior Ellie McNulty tied Harrison with a game-high six draws versus the Dragons. McNulty ranked second at Princeton last year with 59 draws and she ranks fourth all-time with the Tigers with 115 career draws. She had a career-best 10 versus Northwestern, one shy of the school record, and now has 171 draws in her career. The trio of Harrison, McNulty and Barger account for 170 of the team's 202 (.842) draws on the season.
  Four Blue Jays carry active goal, assist and/or point streaks into Thursday's game versus Penn State. Here's a look at those streaks:
 
Aurora Cordingley (So. • A):
• Has at least one point in 19 straight games
 
Miranda Ibello (Sr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 13 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 2 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 3 straight games
 
Ellie McNulty (Sr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 4 straight games
• Has at leaste one goal in 3 straight games
 
Maggie Schneidereith (So. • A):
• Has at least one point in 24 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 20 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 4 straight games
  Hopkins and Penn State meet for the 21st time in a series that began in 2002. The Nittany Lions lead the series, 15-5, and have won three straight. Penn State beat Hopkins, 13-12 in overtime last March in State College. 
  Penn State is coming off a 17-6 win over Duquesne on Tuesday night in which 10 different players scored. Maria Auth led the Nittany Lions with three goals and two assists while Kirstin Roberto added a hat trick.
 
Six Nittany Lions have at least 20 points, led by Quinn Nicolai (24g, 8a). Kayla Brisolari (24g, 6a) also boasts 30-plus points. Auth has tallied 29 points (20g, 9a) while Sophia Triandafils has 28 (13g, 15a), Delaney Muldoon has 23 (17g, 6a) and Madison Carter has 21 (17g, 4a). Carter, who suffered a season-ending injury earlier this season, ranks seventh in school history with 218 points and fifth with 197 goals.
 
Brisolari leads the Nitany Lions in both draws (50) and caused turnovers (22). Taylor Suplee has started every game in the crease and boasts a 11.83 goals against average and a .477 save percentage.
  Head coach Janine Tucker welcomes 11 freshmen and a transfer to the Blue Jays this season. Joining Hopkins are Georgia Esmond, Mia Farnella, Carli Freeman, Kylie Kempe, Sam Leva, Annika Meyer, Claire Mills, Kaitlyn Pham, Nadiya Roy, Rachel Scheinberg, Caroline Somerville and Ellie McNulty.
  Janine Tucker is now in her 26th season at Homewood. The winningest coach in program history, she sports a record of 291-158 (.648), including a 223-142 (.611) mark in Division I. Tucker took over the Blue Jay women's lacrosse program in August 1993 and coached five seasons in Division III before successfully guiding the program's transition to Division I in 1999. A 1989 graduate of Loyola (MD) and a member of the Greyhound Athletic Hall of Fame, Tucker has led the Blue Jays to double-digit win totals in 22 of her 26 years on the bench. She has also guided Hopkins to seven NCAA Division I Tournament appearances, three ECAC Division I championship games, and four NCAA Division III Tournament appearances. Tucker became the 14th coach in NCAA history to reach 250 wins on February 12, 2016 and she currently ranks eighth in NCAA Division I history in wins. She coached her 400th career game at Loyola on February 22, 2017.
  This marks the 44th season for Johns Hopkins, which sports an all-time record of 441-279-4 (.611) and a 223-142 (.611) record as a Division I program. The Blue Jays have posted 32 winning seasons, including 21 straight from 1987 to 2007. Hopkins has also made 16 NCAA Tournament appearances, including seven in the Division I Tournament (2004, 2005, 2007, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018). This year is the 22nd double-digit win season under head coach Janine Tucker and the 29th all-time.
  Under head coach Janine Tucker, the Blue Jays are 133-64 (.675) within the friendly confines of Homewood Field and the Jays are 41-17 (.707) at home since the start of the 2014 season. Hopkins will play 10 of its 17 regular season games, including five straight from February 16 to March 6, at Homewood this spring. 
  Athletics at Johns Hopkins is a family affair as a pair of Blue Jays have followed in their fathers' footsteps at the Homewood campus while two more are following in their sisters' footsteps.
 
Junior Miranda Ibello is not only following in the cleats of her sister, Paige '10, but also of her brother-in-law, Max Venker '10, who was a four-year standout on the JHU men's soccer team. Junior Shannon Logan joined the Blue Jays and played alongside her older sister, Holly, for two seasons. The Logans are the 11th pair of sisters to don the Hopkins Blue & Black and the first to do so at the same time since Sam and Megan Schrum played together in 2009.
  Junior Maggie Schneidereith will not be playing alongside her sister or sisters for that matter, in her collegiate career. Schneidereith, who hails from nearby Towson, is a quadruplet and all four sisters are playing Division I lacrosse. Midfielders Jamie and Lucy are playing at Drexel while goalie Georgia is playing for Albany.
  Hopkins closes out the regular season on Saturday, April 28 at second-ranked Maryland. Opening draw from Capital One Field at Maryland Stadium is slated for 4:30 pm.