• Johns Hopkins is back at Homewood Field for a two-game set against fourth-ranked Northwestern on Friday and Sunday.
• The Blue Jays are coming off a season-opening 13-10 loss to Rutgers on Sunday afternoon. The Wildcats meanwhile, were idle last weekend after a 23-7 win over the Ohio State Buckeyes on February 14.
• This weekend's two-game set wraps up a three-game homestand to open the 2021 season. Hopkins will not return to Homewood Field until Wednesday, March 10. 
  • Rutgers used a 9-2 run to defeat Hopkins, 13-10, in the Blue Jays' season-opener Sunday at Homewood Field.
• The Scarlet Knights jumped on top with a pair of early goals, but the Blue Jays responded with five straight and eight of the next 10 goals to push out to an 8-4 lead with 1:38 to play in the half. Rutgers had the final say of the half, scoring as time expired to make it a three-goal game at the break.
• Rutgers scored three straight coming out of the half to tie the game at eight. Maeve Barker and Shelby Harrison sandwiched goals around a Cassidy Spilis score and JHU led 10-9 at the 14:30-mark. Rutgers answered with the final four goals of the game to grab the win.
• Harrison led the Blue Jays with four points (3g, 1a), tying her career high. Barker, Mackenzie Heldberg and Lexi Souder had two goals apiece, while Maggie Schneidereith (1g, 2a) and Barger (2a) also had multi-point games.
  • Senior Keegan Barger has been selected in a vote by her teammates to serve as the Blue Jays' captain for the 2021 season. In addition, a member of each class was selected to serve in a "captain's cohort" to assist Barger this season.
• This marks just the fourth time in the 46-year history of the program, and the first time since 1996, that the Blue Jays will have a lone captain. Barger, who has started every game of her career, was one of three Blue Jays named to the Big Ten's Preseason Players to Watch list.
• Graduate student Lexi Souder, senior Jeanne Kachris, junior Annika Meyer, sophomore Bailey Cheetham and freshman Abbey Hurlbrink were selected for the captain's cohort.
  • Hopkins is 38-18 (.678) under head coach Janine Tucker in the month of February. Now in their 46th 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.
  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 (Sr. • M):
• Needs 18 draws to rank 6th (has 135)
• Needs 1 caused turnover to rank 13th and 11 to rank 11th (has 51)
 
Aurora Cordingley (Sr. • A):
• Needs 1 point to rank 17th and 9 to rank 16th (has 126)
• Needs 1 free position goal to rank 13th and 2 to rank 11th (has 18)
• Needs 1 assist to rank 10th and 2 to rank 9th (has 49)
 
Kathleen Garvey (Sr. • GK):
• Needs 48 saves to rank 10th (has 72)
 
Shelby Harrison (Sr. • M):
• Needs 1 free position goal to rank 10th and 2 to rank 9th (has 21)
• Needs 6 draws to reach 200 for her career (has 194)
• Needs 8 draws to rank 4th and 9 to rank 3rd (has 194)
 
Mackenzie Heldberg (Gr. • A):
• Needs 1 assist to rank 17th, 2 to rank 16th and 3 to rank 14th (has 36)
 
Jeanne Kachris (Sr. • D):
• Needs 1 caused turnover to rank 19th and 2 to rank 17th (has 46)
 
Kaitlyn Pham (Jr. • GK):
• Needs 4 saves to rank 13th and 13 to rank 12th (has 6)
 
Maggie Schneidereith (Gr. • A):
• Needs 11 points to rank 4th (has 206)
• Needs 1 goal to rank 8th and 5 to rank 7th (has 125)
• Needs 10 assists to rank 4th (has 81)
 
Lexi Souder (Gr. • M):
• Needs 3 draws to rank 15th (has 88)
  • Aurora Cordingley and Mackenzie Heldberg each notched the 100th point of their careers last season. In fact, they did so a in a four-day span and joined Maggie Schneidereith as the only current Blue Jays with 100 career points. 
• Heldberg achieved the milestone in just 36 days, making her the sixth fastest to reach the mark since the program moved to Division I in 1999. Cordingley reached the milestone in just 40 games.
• In what turned out to be the final game of the 2020 season, Maggie Schneidereith tallied the 200th point of her career in a 13-10 win at Saint Joseph's. She is the seventh player in school Division I history, and 12th overall, to reach the milestone. In addition, it took Schneidereith just 62 games to score 200 points.
• This is the 12th time in program history that at least three teammates have had 100 (or more) career points.
  • Last season, Hopkins ranked second in the Big Ten and 20th nationally in assists per game (7.00). In the season opener versus Rutgers, seven of Hopkins' 10 goals were assisted.
• Aurora Cordingley led the Blue Jays and the Big Ten, and ranked 12th nationally with 18 helpers last season. Mackenzie Heldberg ranked second on the team and fourth in the conference with 12 assists.
• Cordingley ranks 12th in school Division I history with 49 assists, while Heldberg is tied for 18th with 36.
• Maggie Schneidereith is Hopkins' active career leader with 81 assists, which ranks fifth in school DI history and eighth all-time. 
  Four Blue Jays carry active goal, assist and/or point streaks into this weekend's two-game series versus Northwestern. Maggie Schneidereith's 31-game goal-scoring streak is tied for the third longest in school Division I history. Here's a look at those streaks:
 
Aurora Cordingley (Sr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 30 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 10 straight games
 
Mackenzie Heldberg (Gr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 8 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 8 straight games
 
Shelby Harrison (Sr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 2 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 2 straight games
 
Maggie Schneidereith (Gr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 35 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 31 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 5 straight games
  • Last season, Hopkins led the Big Ten and ranked 14th in the nation with 10.86 caused turnovers per game.
• Annika Meyer led the Blue Jays and the Big Ten, and ranked 24th in the nation with 1.86 takeaways per game. Shelby Harrison ranked second in the conference with 1.57 caused turnovers per game.
• Meyer picked up a game-high five ground balls in the season opener versus Rutgers. Trinity McPherson had a game-high three caused turnovers as the Blue Jays totalled nine versus the Scarlet Knights.
• Keegan Barger is the team's active career leader with 51 caused turnovers, which ranks 14th in school Division I history. She also holds the school single-game record with seven takeways in a game. Senior Jeanne Kachris ranks 20th in school history with 46 caused turnovers.
  • Senior Shelby Harrison has led the team in draws the last three seasons and currently ranks fifth all-time in school history with 194 career draws. She needs just 73 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 has had six or more draws in a game 12 times in her career. 
• Senior Keegan Barger is also a threat at the draw circle and she ranked second on the team in draws a year ago (17) and as a freshman (54). She ranks eighth in school history, and seventh in school Division I history, with 135 career draws. She has had five or more draws in a game nine times in her career.  
  •  Hopkins and Northwestern meet for the 19th time in a series that began in 2002. The Blue Jays and the Wildcats were both members of the American Lacrosse Conference from its inception in 2002 until its disbandment in 2014.
• The Wildcats have won each of the last three meetings, including the last two at Homewood Field. Friday's game will mark the third straight at Homewood between the two.
• Sophomore Dene' DiMartino scored five goals, including the game-winner with 20 seconds remaining in the second overtime as the Blue Jays beat the Wildcats, 12-11, in 2014. It was Northwestern's first home loss in nearly two years and just the third in the last 10 seasons. In addition, it was Hopkins' first ever win in Evanston.
• In 2011, Hopkins scored three goals in an eight-minute span late in the second half and forced three turnovers to upset second-ranked Northwestern at Homewood Field. Senior Brooke Foussadier (2g, 2a) and junior Colleen McCaffrey (3g) led the Blue Jays in the win.