OPENING DRAW
• Johns Hopkins hits the road on Saturday to wrap up a stretch of four games in 10 days at Saint Joseph's. 
• Hopkins is coming off a tough 15-14 overtime loss to Hofstra on Tuesday afternoon. Saint Joseph's has won four straight after dropping back-to-back games to open the season.   
 
LAST TIME OUT
• Hofstra scored two goals in a 77-second span to tie the game with 40.4 seconds to play and then scored 49 seconds into overtime to beat Hopkins, 15-14, Tuesday night. 
• Senior Maggie Schneidereith poured in a career-high eight points and tied her career-high with six goals to leave her just one point shy of 200 for her career. Junior Aurora Cordingley added four points (2g, 2a) to go with two ground balls and two caused turnovers. 
• Junior Shelby Harrison had a season-high 10 draws while classmate Keegan Barger had three.   
 
#SCTop10 
• 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 last Wednesday night. 
 
I'M HONORED 
• Junior Aurora Cordingley was named the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week on Tuesday after totaling 12 points in a pair of Blue Jay wins last week. She scored three goals and dished three assists at Georgetown on Wednesday. Cordingley followed that with two goals and four assists, all in the first half, as the Blue Jays built a 13-3 lead on the Furman Paladins. 
• Freshman Carly Steinlauf earned her second Big Ten Freshman of the Week honor on February 25 after scoring a game-high four goals at Penn. She is tied for fourth on the team and tied for second among freshmen in the Big Ten in goals (9). 
• 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.
• Cordingley is the third Blue Jay to earn Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week honors since the Blue Jays joined the league in 2017. Steinlauf is the fifth player to earn Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors. 
 
ON A ROLL
• Junior Aurora Cordingley has now totaled 30 points (14g, 16a) through six games. She leads the Big Ten in assists (2.67) and points (5.00) per game and is tied for 10th in goals (2.33). 
• In fact, dating back to last season, Cordingley has totaled 41 points (23g, 20a) in her last eight games. 
 
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 second on the team in assists (11) and points (23) and is third in goals (12). She is tied for fourth in the Big Ten in assists (1.83) and seventh in points (3.83) per game. 
 
LENDING A HAND
• Hopkins ranks second in the Big Ten and 20th nationally in assists per game (7.17). 
• Junior Aurora Cordingley leads the Blue Jays with 16 helpers, while senior Mackenzie Heldberg is second with 11. Cordingley is now tied for 12th in school Division I history with 46 assists, while Heldberg is tied for 18th with 35. 
• Senior Maggie Schneidereith is Hopkins' active career leader with 76 assists, which ranks fourth in school DI history and eighth all-time.  
 
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 24 draws to rank 6th (has 129)
• Needs 1 caused turnover to rank 14th and 3 to rank 12th (has 49)
 
Aurora Cordingley (Jr. • A):
• Needs 2 points to rank 18th and 7 to rank 17th (has 120)
• Needs 1 free position goal to rank 12th and 2 to rank 11th (has 18)
• Needs 3 assists to rank 11th and 4 to rank 10th (has 46)
 
Kathleen Garvey (Jr. • GK):
• Needs 63 saves to rank 10th (has 57)
 
Shelby Harrison (Jr. • M):
• Needs 1 free position goal to rank 11th and 3 to rank 10th (has 19)
• Needs 11 draws to rank 4th (has 191)
 
Mackenzie Heldberg (Sr. • A):
• Needs 1 assist to rank 18th, 2 to rank 17th and 3 to rank 16th (has 35)
 
Jeanne Kachris (Jr. • D):
• Needs 1 caused turnover to rank 20th and 4 to rank 19th (has 43)
 
Maggie Schneidereith (Sr. • A):
• Needs 1 point to rank 5th and 18 to rank 4th (has 199)
• Needs 1 point to reach 200 (has 199)
• Needs 3 goals to rank 8th and 7 to rank 7th (has 123)
• Needs 15 assists to rank 4th (has 76)
 
Lexi Souder (Sr. • M):
• Needs 4 draws to rank 14th (has 87)
 
COUNTDOWN TO 200 
• Senior Maggie Schneidereith is closing in on 200 career points. She needs just one point to become the first player to reach the milestone since Dene' DiMartino in 2016. 
• Schneidereith would become just the seventh player in school Division I history to tally 200 career points. In addition, she would be only the 12th player all-time at Johns Hopkins to reach the mark.  
 
CENTURY CLUB 
• Junior Aurora Cordingley assisted on Hopkins' first goal of the game at Penn (February 22) 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 (February 26). 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. 
 
FIRST TIMERS 
• A pair of Blue Jays scored their first career goals in the season-opener versus Drexel in Bailey Cheetham and Carly Steinlauf. In addition, freshman Madison McPherson picked up her first career assist. 
• Sophomore Kaitlyn Pham made her first career appearance in goal at Loyola (February 15) and made two saves in just over six minutes of action. 
• Sophomore Claire Mills scored her first career goal at Penn (February 22). 
• Four Blue Jays scored their first career goal in the win over Furman on Saturday in freshmen Maeve Barker and Bryce Pfundstein and sophomores Kylie Kempe and Rachel Scheinberg. In addition, Scheinberg and Pfundstein each notched their first career assist. 
 
POLL POSITION 
• Seven of the Blue Jays' 2020 opponents are ranked in the top-25 by the IWLCA, including five in the top-10 (Loyola, Stony Brook, Northwestern, Penn, 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.  
• The Blue Jays are receiving votes in in this week's Maverik Inside Lacrosse Media Poll. 
 
TEWAARATON WATCH LIST 
• Senior Maggie Schneidereith was named to the Tewaaraton Award Watch List it was announced on February 13. She was 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. 
 
AT THE DRAW 
• Junior Shelby Harrison has led the team in draws the last two seasons and currently ranks fifth in school history with 191 career draws. She needs just 76 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). She nearly tied her single-game record with 10 draws against Hofstra on Tuesday. 
• 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 is tied for eighth in school history, and sixth in school Division I history, with 129 career draws. She had a game-high six draws in the season-opening win over Drexel.  
 
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.  
 
IN MARCH 
• The Blue Jays are 158-64-2 (.709) all-time in the month of March, including 127-51 (.713) under head coach Janine Tucker. 
• Since moving to Division I in 1999, Hopkins is 107-46 (.699) in the month of March.  
 
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.
 
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 (123), assists (76) and points (199). 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.
 
AGAINST THE HAWKS 
• Hopkins and Saint Joseph's meet for the fourth time in a series that began in 1998. The teams met in 1998 and 1999 before taking a 20-year hiatus and resuming the series in 2019. 
• The Blue Jays have won all three meetings in the series. 
• Hopkins won last year's meeting, 17-11, behind a six-goal, seven-point performance from Maggie Schneidereith. Mackenzie Heldberg (3g, 2a) and Aurora Cordingley (2g, 3a) added five points each and Shelby Harrison had a game-high six draws. 
 
SCOUTING THE HAWKS 
• Saint Joseph's topped Villanova, 16-9, on Wednesday to pick up its fourth straight win entering Saturday's match-up. 
• Four Hawks notched hat tricks, led by Bridget Cerciello with a game-high five goals and six points. Stephanie Kelly and Lauren Figura added four points each while Taylor Newman-Farr had a game-high six draws.
• A two-time all-conference pick Cerciello leads the Hawks in goals (19), points (20) and draws (20). She is also third in ground balls (12) and fourth in caused turnovers (6). 
• Kelly leads the team with five helpers and already ranks fourth in program history with 62 assists in her career. She is just 16 assists shy of the program record. 
• Mikala Davis has started all six games in the goal and boasts a .434 save percentage with a 12.51 goals against average. She has posted double-digit saves in two games this season, including a 16-save performance in the overtime win at Rutgers. 
 
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 294-164 (.642), she accounts for more than 66 percent of the program's all-time wins (444). 
• 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.
 
WE'RE STREAKING! 
• Seven Blue Jays carry active goal, assist and/or point streaks into Saturday's game at Saint Joseph's (see chart). 
• Senior Maggie Schneidereith's 33-game point streak is the sixth longest in school Division I history, while her 29-game goal streak is the fourth longest. 
• Junior Aurora Cordingley's 28-game point streak is the ninth longest in program history. 
 
FOR THE RECORD 
• This marks the 45th season for Johns Hopkins, which sports an all-time record of 444-285-4 (.608) and a 226-148 (.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. 
 
HOME SWEET HOME(WOOD) 
• Under head coach Janine Tucker, the Blue Jays are 135-66 (.675) within the friendly confines of Homewood Field and the Jays are 43-19 (.694) 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 return home to open Big Ten play on Saturday, March 14.
• Hopkins hosts Ohio State at 1:00 pm at Homewood Field.