OPENING DRAW
• Johns Hopkins travels to the City of Brotherly Love on Saturday to take on 11th-ranked Penn at Franklin Field.  
• Hopkins is coming off a 16-7 loss at then 11th-ranked Loyola last Saturday. Penn moved up a spot in this week's IWLCA poll after beating host Georgetown, 17-6, in its opener. 
• Saturday's game marks the second of a three-game road swing for the Blue Jays. 
 
LAST TIME OUT
• JHU jumped out to a 4-1 lead on host Loyola, but a pair of five-goal runs by the Greyhounds swung the momentum in favor of the home team. Loyola went on to beat visiting Hopkins, 16-7, to snap the Blue Jays' three-game win streak in the series.
• Junior Aurora Cordingley led the Blue Jays with five points, including her second straight hat trick. Junior Shelby Harrison (2g) and senior Mackenzie Heldberg (1g, 1a) were the only other Blue Jays to finish with multi-point games 
 
ON A ROLL
• Junior Aurora Cordingley has now totaled nine points (6g, 3a) in the first two games of the season and ranks sixth in the Big Ten with 4.50 points per game. 
• She also ranks sixth in the conference in goals (3.00) and assists per game (1.50). In addition, she leads the Big Ten in caused turnovers (2.00) and ranks fifth in ground balls (2.50) per game. 
 
LENDING A HAND
• Senior Mackenzie Heldberg leads the Blue Jays with five assists and leads the Big Ten in assists per game (2.50). She entered the season with 24 assists in her first 32 games. Heldberg needs just four assists to break into the top-20 in JHU Division I history. 
• Senior Maggie Schneidereith is Hopkins' active career leader with 71 assists, which ranks fourth in school DI history and eighth all-time.  
• Junior Aurora Cordingley has tallied three assists in the first two games and now ranks 20th in school DI history with 33 career helpers. 
 
FOR OPENERS
• Hopkins opened the season with a 13-11 come-from-behind win over Drexel on February 8. 
• The Blue Jays are 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 in the season-opener versus Drexel 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 35-16 (.686) 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 is the Blue Jays' active career leader in goals (110), assists (71) and points (181). 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.
 
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. 
 
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 5 draws to rank 7th (has 123)
• Needs 1 caused turnover to rank 19th and 4 to rank 18th (has 43)
 
Aurora Cordingley (Jr. • A):
• Needs 1 point to reach 100 for her career (has 99)
• Needs 1 free position goal to rank 13th and 2 to rank 12th (has 17)
• Needs 2 assists to rank 18th and 3 to rank 17th (has 33)
 
Kathleen Garvey (Jr. • GK):
• Needs 90 saves to rank 10th (has 30)
 
Shelby Harrison (Jr. • M):
• Needs 1 free position goal to rank 13th and 2 to rank 12th (has 17)
• Needs 30 draws to rank 4th (has 172)
 
Mackenzie Heldberg (Sr. • A):
• Needs 10 points to reach 100 for her career (has 90)
 
Maggie Schneidereith (Sr. • A):
• Needs 5 points to rank 7th (has 181)
• Needs 3 goals to rank 10th and 4 to rank 9th (has 110)
• 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 172 career draws. She needs just 95 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 10th in school history, and eighth in school Division I history, with 123 career draws. She had a game-high six draws in the season-opening win over Drexel.  
 
POLL POSITION 
• Hopkins is receiving votes in the Nike/US Lacrosse poll. 
• Eight of the Blue Jays' 2020 opponents are ranked in the top-25 by the IWLCA, including three in the top-10 (Maryland, Stony Brook, Northwestern). 
• Hopkins fell out of the IWLCA poll this week, but had been ranked in the top-25 in each of the previous 25 polls, dating back to the 2018 preseason poll. In addition, JHU had been ranked in 92 of the previous 115 polls, beginning with the first regular season poll in 2012.  
 
WE'RE STREAKING! 
• Four Blue Jays carry active goal, assist and/or point streaks into Saturday's game at Penn. 
• Senior Maggie Schneidereith's 29-game point streak is the eighth longest in school Division I history, while her 25-game goal streak is the fifth longest. 
 
Aurora Cordingley (Jr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 24 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 6 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 4 straight games
 
Shelby Harrison (Jr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 2 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 2 straight games
 
Mackenzie Heldberg (Sr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 2 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 2 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 2 straight games
 
Maggie Schneidereith (So. • A):
• Has at least one point in 29 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 25 straight games
 
I'M HONORED 
• Freshman Carly Steinlauf was named the Big Ten Freshman of the Week on February 11 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 February 8. 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. 
 
CENTURY CLUB 
• Junior Aurora Cordingley is closing in on the century mark as she enters this week with 99 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. 
• In addition, senior Mackenzie Heldberg is also closing in on the mark as she needs 10 points to reach 100 for her career.  
 
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 QUAKERS 
• Hopkins and Penn square off for the 14th time since the series began in 2001. 
• Penn has a 7-6 edge in the series and has won the last three meetings. The last two games have been decided by just one goal. 
• The Blue Jays are 2-3 aginst the Quakers in Philadelphia. Hopkins last beat Penn on the road on March 29, 2006 - a 12-9 Blue Jay win. 
 
SCOUTING THE QUAKERS 
• Penn was picked to finish second in the Ivy League Preason Poll with 112 points and three first-place votes. The Quakers return seven All-Ivy league selections, including unanimous first team selections Erin Barry and Gabby Rosenzweig. 
• Barry and Rosenzweig each earned preseason Alll-America honors from Inside Lacrosse and were also named to the Tewaaraton Award watch list.
• Barry ranked second on the team in goals (37) and ground balls (35) and third in points (43) a year ago. She also led the team with 13 free position goals, on 25 shots. 
• Rosenzweig had a team-best 98 points and 63 assists, while ranking third in goals (35) in 2019. 
• The Quakers return 100 percent of their goal-scoring output from a year ago - the only team in the nation to do so. In all, 12 players combined to score 224 goals for Penn in 2019. 
• Zoe Belodeau, a First Team All-Ivy selection last season, led Penn with 42 goals and ranked second with 57 points. She also ranked second with 57 draws. 
• Mikaila Cheeseman returns after earning Second Team All-Ivy honors with 124 saves and a .458 save percentage last season. A two-year starter, she boasts a 11.05 goals against average and a .453 save percentage.  
 
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.
 
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 292-162 (.643), 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 442-283-4 (.609) and a 224-146 (.605) 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 closes out its three-game road swing as the Blue Jays travel down I-95 to the nation's capital on Wednesday, February 26. 
• Hopkins will take on 23rd-ranked Georgetown at 4:00 pm at Cooper Field.