• Johns Hopkins is back at home for the first time in three weeks to take on Furman.  
• Hopkins is coming off a thrilling 15-14 win at 25th-ranked Georgetown on Wednesday afternoon. Furman have lost back-to-back games, including a 14-5 loss at Davidson last Saturday. 
• The Blue Jays are in the midst of a stretch of four games in 10 days. 
  • Hopkins won a thriller in Washington, DC Wednesday afternoon, 15-14, over host Georgetown to snap a two-game losing streak.
• Trailing 14-11 with 3:38 to play in the game, the Hoyas scored three goals in a three minute span to tie the game with just 37.4 seconds to go. Georgeton won the draw and got a shot off but junior Kathleen Garvey made the save and then hit senior Maggie Schneidereith with a 70-yard pass. Schneidereith beat her defender and then slipped a shot inside the near post as time expired to lift the Blue Jays to the win.
• Junior Aurora Cordingley led Hopkins with six points (3g, 3a) while senior Mackenzie Heldberg (3g, 2a) and Schneidereith (4g, 1a) had five points apiece.
• Garvey finished with a career-best 13 saves, her second straight double-digit save performance. Sophomore Annika Meyer totaled four ground balls and three caused turnovers while junior Shelby Harrison had two goals, three draws and three caused turnovers.
  • Senior Maggie Schneidereith's gamewinning goal at Georgetown, thanks to a 70-yard outlet pass from junior goalie Kathleen Garvey, was number four on ESPN Sportscenter's Top-10 Wednesday night.
  • 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 (8).
• 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.
  • Junior Aurora Cordingley has now totaled 20 points (10g, 10a) through four games and ranks second in the Big Ten in points (5.00) and assists per game (2.50).
• She also ranks eighth in the conference in goals (2.50) in per game. 
• In fact, dating back to last season, Cordingley has totaled 31 points (19g, 12) in her last six games.
  • 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 second on the team in assists (9) and points (17) and is tied for second in goals (8). She is tied for fourth in the Big Ten in assists (2.25) and sixth in points (4.25) per game.
  • Hopkins ranks third in the Big Ten and 32nd nationally in assists per game (6.00).
• Junior Aurora Cordingley leads the Blue Jays with 10 helpers, while senior Mackenzie Heldberg is second with nine. Cordingley is now tied for 13th in school Division I history with 40 assists, while Heldberg needs just two assists to break into the top-20.
• Senior Maggie Schneidereith is Hopkins' active career leader with 72 assists, which ranks fourth in school DI history and eighth all-time. 
  • 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.
  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 3 draws to rank 7th and 28 to rank 6th (has 125)
• Needs 1 caused turnover to rank 15th, 2 to rank 14th and 4 to rank 12th (has 49)
 
Aurora Cordingley (Jr. • A):
• Needs 3 points to rank 20th (has 110)
• Needs 1 free position goal to rank 12th and 2 to rank 11th (has 18)
• Needs 6 assists to rank 12th (has 40)
 
Kathleen Garvey (Jr. • GK):
• Needs 67 saves to rank 10th (has 53)
 
Shelby Harrison (Jr. • M):
• Needs 1 free position goal to rank 11th and 3 to rank 10th (has 19)
• Needs 25 draws to rank 4th (has 177)
 
Maggie Schneidereith (Sr. • A):
• Needs 2 assists to rank 18th (has 33)
 
Maggie Schneidereith (Sr. • A):
• Needs 14 points to rank 5th (has 187)
• Needs 11 goals to rank 8th (has 115)
• Needs 19 assists to rank 4th (has 72)
 
Lexi Souder (Sr. • M):
• Needs 4 draws to rank 14th (has 87)
  • Junior Aurora Cordingley assisted on Hopkins' first goal of the game at Penn for the 100th point of her career. She needed just 40 games to reach the milestone. 
• Just four days later, senior Mackenzie Heldberg reached the milestone with a five-point outing at Georgetown. She reached the mark in just 36 games, making her the sixth fastest to reach the milestone since the program moved to Division I in 1999.
• Heldberg and Cordingley join senior Maggie Schneidereith as the only current Blue Jays with 100 points.
• This is the 12th time that at least three teammates have had 100 (or more) career points.
  • Five Blue Jays carry active goal, assist and/or point streaks into Saturday's game versus Furman.
• Senior Maggie Schneidereith's 31-game point streak is tied for the seventh longest in school Division I history, while her 27-game goal streak is the fifth longest.
• Junior Aurora Cordingley's 26-game point streak is the 10th longest in program history.
 
Aurora Cordingley (Jr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 26 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 8 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 6 straight games
 
Shelby Harrison (Jr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 4 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 4 straight games
 
Mackenzie Heldberg (Sr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 4 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 4 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 4 straight games
 
Maggie Schneidereith (So. • A):
• Has at least one point in 31 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 27 straight games
 
Carly Steinlauf (Fr. • F):
• Has at least one point in 2 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 2 straight games
  • 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. 
  • 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.
  • Junior Shelby Harrison has led the team in draws the last two seasons and currently ranks fifth in school history with 177 career draws. She needs just 90 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 125 career draws. She had a game-high six draws in the season-opening win over Drexel. 
  • 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. 
  • Hopkins is 36-17 (.679) 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Hopkins and Furman meet for the sixth time since the series began in 2015.
• The Blue Jays have won all five previous meetings, including four at Homewood Field.  
• Hopkins beat Furman, 20-6, last season behind six-point performances by Aurora Cordingley (3g, 3a), Mackenzie Heldberg (2g, 4a) and Miranda Ibello (2g, 4a).
  The Paladins had five players earn Southern Conference Preseason All-Conference accolades in junior attacker Hannah Demis, senior attacker Grace Pollak, junior midfielder Sydney Catts, senior defender Morgan Franklin and junior midfielder Avery Whitehead.
• Demis led the team in assists (37) and ranked second in points (67) and third in goals (30) a year ago. She ranks in the top-10 in program history in assists (62), goals (49), points (111) and draws (43). This season, she leads the Palladins in assists (9) and ranks second in goals (6) and points (15).
• Pollak earned First Team All-Southern Conference honors after leading the team with 50 goals and ranking third with 65 points. She ranks in the-10 in program history with 95 goals, 34 assists and 129 points. In fact, Pollak needs goals to become just the third player in program history to score 100 goals. She leads the team this season in points (17) and goals (13). 
• Catts was second on the team with 43 draws, to go with 18 points (16g, 2a), 26 ground balls and 11 turnovers. She has tallied three goals and seven draws through four games this season.
• Franklin picked up first team all-conference honors after totaling 16 caused turnovers, 35 ground balls and 16 draws. A two-time First Team All-SoCon picks, she leads the Paladins with 18 draws and nine caused turnovers this season.
• Whitehead was named Second Team All-Southern Conference after finishing with 35 ground balls, 19 caused turnovers and 10 draws on the year. She paces the team with 10 ground balls and has also caused five turnovers and controlled three draws.
  • Furman head coach Rachel Whitten will see a familiar face on the Hopkins' sideline Saturday in Blue Jay associate head coach Tara Singleton. The two played together at nearby Loyola and later coached together at the University of Denver.
  • 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.
  • The all-time winningest coach in program history, Janine Tucker returns for her 27th season with the Blue Jays. With a record of 293-163 (.642), she accounts for more than 66 percent of the program's all-time wins (443).
• 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 seven wins to reach the 300-win mark.
  • This marks the 45th season for Johns Hopkins, which sports an all-time record of 443-284-4 (.608) and a 225-147 (.604) 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.
  • 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. 
  • 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.
  • The Blue Jays are back at Homewood Field in just three days for a midweek contest.
• Hopkins hosts Hofstra on Tuesday, March 3 with opening draw set for 4:00 pm.