OPENING DRAW
• Johns Hopkins makes the short trip down Cold Spring Lane to take on 11th-ranked Loyola at Ridley Athletic Complex. 
• The Blue Jays are coming off a 13-11 come-from-behind win over the Drexel Dragons last Saturday at Homewood Field. Today's game marks the Greyhounds' season-opener. 
 
LAST TIME OUT
• Johns Hopkins scored the final three goals, and five of the last six, as the Blue Jays rallied from a 10-8 deficit with 19:19 to play in the second half. Freshman Carly Steinlauf scored the game-winner with 6:41 to go and junior Shelby Harrison added an insurance goal less than three minutes later. 
• Senior Mackenzie Heldberg made an emphatic return to the field after missing the second half of 2019 with a knee injury. She scored a goal and tied her career-high with four assists. 
• Junior Keegan Barger had a game-high six draw controls as Hopkins outdrew Drexel (14-12) for the game, including 8-4 in the second half. Harrison and sophomore Annika Meyer led the defense with three caused turnovers each. 
• Hopkins is now 20-7 (.740) in season openers under head coach Janine Tucker and is 31-13-1 (.700) all-time. The Blue Jays have won 12 straight and 16 of the last 17 season-openers.  
 
FIRST TIMERS 
• A pair of Blue Jays scored their first career goals on Saturday in Bailey Cheetham and Carly Steinlauf.
• Cheetham's goal came at the 10:13-mark of the first half and gave Hopkins a 5-4 lead - it's first of the game.
• Steinlauf scored to tie the game at 10-10 with 14:48 to play in the game. She then scored her second goal, and first career game-winner, with 6:41 to go. 
• In addition, freshman Madison McPherson picked up her first career assist - on Steinlauf's game-winner. 
 
IN FEBRUARY 
• Hopkins is 35-15 (.700) under head coach Janine Tucker in the month of February. Now in their 45th season, the Blue Jays did not play a game in the month of February until 2002. Hopkins, then in just its fourth season as a Division I program, lost to Vanderbilt, 7-4, on February 24.
 
OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN! 
• Senior attackers Mackenzie Heldberg and Maggie Schneidereith and senior midfielder Lexi Souder have been selected in a vote by their teammates as captains for the 2020 season.
• A three-year starter, Schneidereith returns as the Blue Jays' active career leader in goals (107), assists (71) and points (178). She led the team with 48 goals, 29 assists and 77 points en route to earning All-Big Ten and IWLCA All-Mid-Atlantic honors a year ago. 
• Heldberg returns after missing the final nine games of the 2019 season with a knee injury. Named a Big Ten Preseason Player to Watch, she still ranked fourth on the team in assists (13), fifth in points (31) and seventh in goals (18). 
• Souder has played in all but one game in her career and ranks 16th in school Division I history with 87 career draw controls. She ranked fourth on the team in draws (28) and finished with a career-best 17 goals and 18 points last year.
 
I'M HONORED 
• Freshman Carly Steinlauf was named the Big Ten Freshman of the Week on Tuesday after making a splash in her collegiate debut. She scored a pair of goals, including the game-winner, as Hopkins rallied to beat Drexel on Saturday. Both of Steinlauf's goals came in the final 15 minutes.
• Steinlauf is the fifth player to earn Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors since the Blue Jays joined the league in 2017. 
 
TEWAARATON WATCH LIST 
• Senior Maggie Schneidereith was named to the Tewaaraton Award Watch List it was announced Thursday night. She is one of 50 women's players selected to the list.
• Schneidereith is the 10th different Blue Jay to be named to the watch list and first since Emily Kenul in 2018. Hopkins has had at least one player named to the watch list in 14 of the last 17 seasons. 
 
AROUND THE BIG TEN 
• Johns Hopkins was picked to finish fifth in the 2020 Big Ten Women's Lacrosse Preseason Poll of the league's seven head coaches. Defending national champion Maryland was voted the preseason favorite to win the 2020 title, followed by Northwestern, Michigan, Penn State and Hopkins. Ohio State (6th) and Rutgers (7th) round out the preseason poll.
• In addition, three players from each team were named to the preseason players to watch list with senior Maggie Schneidereith and juniors Shelby Harrison and Jeanne Kachris earning the honor for Hopkins.
• Schneidereith and Kachris return after earning All-Big Ten honors a year ago. Schneidereith led the team with 48 goals, 29 assists and 77 points last season. In addition, she led the Big Ten in assists per game (1.61) and ranked second in points (4.28) and third in goals per game (2.67). 
• Harrison continued her domination at the draw circle last season, as she led the team and ranked fifth in the Big Ten with 76 draws. She also posted career highs in goals (20), assists (4), points (24), ground balls (21) and caused turnovers (16). 
 • Kachris is the Blue Jays' top match-up defender and led a defense that ranked second in the Big Ten in caused turnovers (9.67), third in scoring defense (11.56) and fourth in ground balls (17.83) in 2019. The only two-time All-Big Ten player in program history, she totaled 28 ground balls and 16 caused turnovers a year ago.
 
CLIMBING THE RANKS 
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 (Jr. • M):
• Needs 1 draw to rank 8th and 7 to rank 7th (has 121)
• Needs 1 caused turnover to rank 19th and 4 to rank 18th (has 43)
 
Aurora Cordingley (Jr. • A):
• Needs 6 points to reach 100 for her career (has 94)
• Needs 1 free position goal to rank 15th and 2 to rank 13th (has 16)
• Needs 4 assists to rank 18th (has 31)
 
Kathleen Garvey (Jr. • GK):
• Needs 94 saves to rank 10th (has 26)
 
Shelby Harrison (Jr. • M):
• Needs 1 free position goal to rank 15th and 2 to rank 13th (has 16)
• Needs 32 draws to rank 4th (has 170)
 
Maggie Schneidereith (Sr. • A):
• Needs 6 points to rank 7th (has 180)
• Needs 1 goal to rank 10th and 4 to rank 9th (has 109)
• Needs 20 assists to rank 4th (has 71)
 
Lexi Souder (Sr. • M):
• Needs 4 draws to rank 14th (has 87)
 
AT THE DRAW 
• Junior Shelby Harrison has led the team in draws the last two seasons and currently ranks fifth in school history with 170 career draws. She needs just 97 draws to break the program's all-time record of 267, held by Dene' DiMartino '16.
• Harrison holds the school record for draws in a game (11) and by a freshman (91). 
• Junior Keegan Barger is also a threat at the draw circle, as she ranked third on the team in draws a year ago (61) and second as a freshman (54). She ranks 11th in school history, and ninth in Division I, with 121 career draws. She had a game-high six draws in Saturday's season-opening win over Drexel.  
 
POLL POSITION 
• Hopkins is ranked 24th in the IWLCA Coaches preseason poll and is receiving votes in both the Maverik Inside Lacrosse Media and Nike/US Lacrosse polls. 
• Eight of the Blue Jays' 2020 opponents are ranked in the top-25 by the IWLCA, including three in the top-10 (Maryland, Northwestern, Michigan). 
• Hopkins has been ranked in the IWLCA Top-25 in each of the last 25 polls, dating back to the 2018 preseason poll. In addition, JHU has been ranked in 92 of the last 115 polls, beginning with the first regular season poll in 2012.  
 
CENTURY CLUB 
• Junior Aurora Cordingley is closing in on the century mark as she enters this week with 94 career points. 
• Cordingley would be the 42nd player all-time and 24th since the program moved to Division I to tally 100 career points. 
• She would join senior Maggie Schneidereith as the only current Blue Jays with 100 points. 
 
WELCOME TO HOMEWOOD 
• Head coach Janine Tucker welcomes eight freshmen to the Blue Jays this season. Joining Hopkins are Maeve Barker, Olivia Caan, Bailey Cheetham, Madison McPherson, Alex Miller, Haleigh Moore, Bryce Pfundstein and Carly Steinlauf.
• Pfundstein and Steinlauf were named to Inside Lacrosse's Power 100 Incoming Freshmen list.
 
AGAINST THE GREYHOUNDS 
• Hopkins and Loyola meet for the 19th time in a series that began in 1976. 
• The Greyhounds lead the all-time series, 13-5, though the Blue Jays have won the last three meetings. 
• Despite being separated by just one mile, the series took a 30-year hiatus from 1982 to 2012. The teams have met every year since the series resumed in 2012 and Hopkins is 5-3 during that stretch. 
• JHU won last year's meeting, 13-11, at Homewood Field behind a game-high four goals from Shelby Harrison. 
 
AGAINST YOUR ALMA MATER 
• Head coach Janine Tucker and associate head coach Tara Singleton are facing off against their alma mater this Saturday at Loyola. 
• Tucker (1989) and Singleton (2004) each earned Second Team All-America honors while playing for the Greyhounds. 
 
SCOUTING THE GREYHOUNDS 
• Loyola, which is ranked in all three national polls, kicks off its 2020 season Saturday. The Greyhounds are picked to win the Patriot League for a seventh consecutive season since joining the league in 2014.
• Junior Livy Rosenzweig returns after earning First Team All-America honors a year ago. She finished the season with 46 goals and 70 assists, breaking her own school record for points (117) and breaking the program record for assists. She also finished second on the team with 85 draws and for her career, boasts 101 goals, 117 assists and 174 draws. Rosenzweig was named a Preseason All-American by Inside Lacrosse and was also named to the Preseason All-Patriot League team. 
• In addition to Rosenzweig, juniors Sam Fielder and Elli Kluegel and sophomore Katie Detwiler were named to the Preseason All-Patriot League team. 
• Fielder had an impressive rookie season, totaling 53 goals and 26 assists. Kluegel finished fifth on the team with 35 goals and sixth with 40 points. Detweiler started all 21 games as a freshman and tallied 24 ground balls and 12 caused turnovers. 
 
WE'RE STREAKING! 
Two Blue Jays carry active goal, assist and/or point streaks into Saturday's game at Loyola. Here's a look at those streaks:
 
Aurora Cordingley (Jr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 23 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 5 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 3 straight games
 
Maggie Schneidereith (So. • A):
• Has at least one point in 28 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 24 straight games
 
AT THE HELM 
• The all-time winningest coach in program history, Janine Tucker returns for her 27th season with the Blue Jays. With a record of 292-161 (.645), she accounts for more than 66 percent of the program's all-time wins (442). 
• Tucker successfully guided the program through its transition from Division III to Division I in 1999. She has led the Blue Jays to double-digit win totals in 22 of her 26 seasons and 12 NCAA Tournament appearances, including five in the last six years. 
• Tucker became the ninth coach in NCAA Division I history to reach 250 wins when JHU beat Marquette on February 12, 2016. She enters the week needing just eight wins to reach the 300-win mark.
 
FOR THE RECORD 
• This marks the 45th season for Johns Hopkins, which sports an all-time record of 442-282-4 (.610) and a 224-145 (.607) record as a Division I program.
• The Blue Jays have posted 33 winning seasons, including 21 straight from 1987 to 2007. Hopkins has also made 17 NCAA Tournament appearances, including eight in the Division I Tournament (2004, 2005, 2007, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019). 
• Last year was the 22nd double-digit win season under head coach Janine Tucker and the 28th all-time. 
 
HOME SWEET HOME(WOOD) 
• Under head coach Janine Tucker, the Blue Jays are 134-65 (.673) within the friendly confines of Homewood Field and the Jays are 42-18 (.700) at home since the start of the 2014 season. 
• Hopkins will play nine of its 17 regular season games at Homewood this spring.  
 
IT'S A FAMILY AFFAIR 
• Athletics at Johns Hopkins is a family affair and this year's team is no different. 
• Senior Shannon Logan joined the Blue Jays in 2017 and played alongside her older sister, Holly, for two seasons. Freshman Madison McPherson joins her sister, junior Trinity, at Homewood this spring. The McPhersons are the 12th pair of sisters to don the Hopkins Blue & Black. 
 
ON TAP 
• Hopkins continues its three-game road swing as the Blue Jays travel to the City of Brotherly Love next Saturday. 
• JHU takes on 12th-ranked Penn at 1:00 pm at Franklin Field.