OPENING DRAW
• Johns Hopkins travels to the nation's capital on Wednesday afternoon to take on 25th-ranked Georgetown.  
• Hopkins is coming off a 15-12 loss at then 11th-ranked Penn on Saturday. Georgetown is back at home after a 12-10 win at Drexel on Saturday.  
• Wednesday's game marks the final game of the Blue Jays' three-game road swing.
• This is the third straight game in which Hopkins has faced a ranked opponent.  
 
LAST TIME OUT
• Hopkins took an early 2-1 lead on a pair of Mackenzie Heldberg goals just 30 seconds apart. But host Penn used a 6-0 run, that spanned just over three minutes, to go up 6-2. The Blue Jays responded with a 6-2 run to end the half and the Quakers led 9-8 at the break.
• The teams traded goals in the second half and three times Hopkins was within a goal, but Penn got two late goals to secure the win.  
• Heldberg and junior Aurora Cordingley led the Blue Jays with five points each while freshman Carly Steinlauf had a game-high four goals.  
• Steinlauf is the first Blue Jay freshman to score four goals in a game since Maggie Schneidereith did so on March 1, 2017 versus Georgetown. 
• Sophomore Annika Meyer had a career-best four ground balls and four caused turnovers to lead the defense and junior Kathleen Garvey made a career-high 10 saves. 
 
I'M HONORED 
• Freshman Carly Steinlauf earned her second Big Ten Freshman of the Week honor on Tuesday after scoring a game-high four goals at Penn. She is tied for second on the team and second among freshmen in the Big Ten in goals (6). 
• 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. 
 
ON A ROLL
• Junior Aurora Cordingley has now totaled 14 points (7g, 7a) through three games and ranks second in the Big Ten in points (4.67) and third in assists per game (2.33). 
• She also ranks 10th in the conference in goals (2.33) and eighth in ground balls (2.33) per game.  
 
WELCOME BACK
• Senior Mackenzie Heldberg has picked up right she left off after suffering a season-ending injury nine games in to the 2019 season. At the time of her injury, she ranked second on the team in points (31) and assists (13) and was third in goals (18). 
• Heldberg is tied for the team-lead in assists (7), ranks second in points (12) and fourth in goals (5). She is third in the Big Ten in assists (2.33) and seventh in points (4.00) per game. 
 
LENDING A HAND
• Hopkins ranks third in the Big Ten and 39th nationally in assists per game (5.67). 
• Senior Mackenzie Heldberg and junior Aurora Cordingley lead the Blue Jays with seven assists each. Cordingley is now tied for 16th in school Division I history with 37 assists, while Heldberg needs just four assists to break into the top-20. 
• Senior Maggie Schneidereith is Hopkins' active career leader with 71 assists, which ranks fourth in school DI history and eighth all-time.  
 
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. She then handed out her first career assist at Penn. 
• Against Drexel, 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 at Drexel. 
• Sophomore Kaitlyn Pham made her first career appearance in goal at Loyola on February 15 and made two saves in just over six minutes of action. 
• Sophomore Claire Mills scored her first career goal at Penn on Saturday. 
 
IN FEBRUARY 
• Hopkins is 35-17 (.673) 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.
 
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 4 draws to rank 7th (has 124)
• Needs 1 caused turnover to rank 18th and 2 to rank 16th (has 46)
 
Aurora Cordingley (Jr. • A):
• Needs 1 free position goal to rank 12th and 2 to rank 11th (has 18)
• Needs 1 assist to rank 15th, 2 to rank 13th and 9 to rank 12th (has 37)
 
Kathleen Garvey (Jr. • GK):
• Needs 80 saves to rank 10th (has 40)
 
Shelby Harrison (Jr. • M):
• Needs 1 free position goal to rank 12th and 2 to rank 11th (has 18)
• Needs 28 draws to rank 4th (has 174)
 
Mackenzie Heldberg (Sr. • A):
• Needs 5 points to reach 100 for her career (has 95)
 
Maggie Schneidereith (Sr. • A):
• Needs 4 points to rank 7th (has 182)
• Needs 2 goals to rank 9th and 15 to rank 8th (has 111)
• Needs 20 assists to rank 4th (has 71)
 
Lexi Souder (Sr. • M):
• Needs 4 draws to rank 14th (has 87)
 
CENTURY CLUB 
• Junior Aurora Cordingley assisted on Hopkins' first goal of the game at Penn on Saturday for the 100th point of her career. She needed just 40 games to reach the milestone.  
• Cordingley is the 42nd player all-time, and 24th since the program moved to Division I, to tally 100 career points. 
• Cordingley joins senior Maggie Schneidereith as the only current Blue Jays with 100 points. 
• Senior Mackenzie Heldberg is also closing in on the century mark as she needs just five points to reach 100 for her career. 
 
AT THE DRAW 
• Junior Shelby Harrison has led the team in draws the last two seasons and currently ranks fifth in school history with 174 career draws. She needs just 93 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 124 career draws. She had a game-high six draws in the season-opening win over Drexel.  
 
POLL POSITION 
• Eight of the Blue Jays' 2020 opponents are ranked in the top-25 by the IWLCA, including four in the top-10 (Stony Brook, Loyola, Northwestern, Maryland). 
• Hopkins fell out of the IWLCA poll on February 17, 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.  
 
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 (111), assists (71) and points (182). 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.
 
WE'RE STREAKING! 
• Four Blue Jays carry active goal, assist and/or point streaks into Wednesday's game at Georgetown. 
• Senior Maggie Schneidereith's 30-game point streak is the eighth longest in school Division I history, while her 26-game goal streak is the fifth longest. 
• Junior Aurora Cordingley's 25-game point streak is the 11th longest in program history. 
 
Aurora Cordingley (Jr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 25 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 7 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 5 straight games
 
Shelby Harrison (Jr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 3 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 3 straight games
 
Mackenzie Heldberg (Sr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 3 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 3 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 3 straight games
 
Maggie Schneidereith (So. • A):
• Has at least one point in 30 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 26 straight games
 
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 HOYAS 
• Hopkins and Georgetown square off for the 25th time since the series began in 1977. 
• The series is tied at 12 with the Blue Jays earning a 12-11 win in last year's meeting at Homewood on February 27.   
• JHU is 5-4 against Georgetown on the road and last won in DC on March 19, 2016. 
• Each of the last three meetings have been decided by just one goal. In fact, since 2006, seven of the 15 meetings have been one-goal games. 
 
SCOUTING THE HOYAS 
• Georgetown is 2-1 on the season after a 12-10 win at Drexel on Saturday. With the game tied at nine and under 15 minutes to play, the Hoyas scored three straight goals to get the cushion they needed.  
• Senior midfielder Natalia Lynch was named the BIG EAST Midfielder of the Week on Monday for the second time this season. She led Georgetown with four goals and seven draws at Drexel. 
• Lynch leads the Hoyas with nine goals and is tied for the team lead with 10 points. She also has a team-best 21 draws and ranks second in ground balls (6) and draws (5). 
• Senior attacker Michaela Bruno is tied with Lynch for points (10) and ranks second in goals (8). Senior attacker Emily Ehle meanwhile leads the team with four assists. 
• Bruno and Lynch, along with senior defender Katie Hudson and junior defender Mollie Miller were named to the Preseason All-BIG East squad. Hudson was also named the preseason BIG East Defensive Player of the Year as well as a preseason All-American by Inside Lacrosse. 
 
YOU LOOK FAMILIAR 
• Georgetown head coach Ricky Fried is no stranger to Johns Hopkins and head coach Janine Tucker, as he spent nine seasons (1994-2002) as an assistant for the Blue Jays. 
 
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 292-163 (.642), 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 needs 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 442-284-4 (.608) and a 224-147 (.603) 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 
• The Blue Jays are back at home on Saturday for the first time since its season-opener on February 8.
• Hopkins hosts Furman at 1:00 pm to wrap up the month of February. It is the first of two home games in just four days for the Blue Jays.