• Johns Hopkins returns to Homewood Field to take on ninth-ranked Maryland on Friday afternoon.
• The Blue Jays are coming off a pair of one-goal wins at 24th-ranked Ohio State last weekend. Friday's win over the Buckeyes was the Jays' first of the season and first over a ranked opponent since February 26, 2020 (25th-ranked Georgetown).  
  • Mackenzie Heldberg and Maggie Schneidereith combined for seven goals to lead Hopkins to a 12-11 win at 24th-ranked Ohio State Friday. Trailing 4-3 with 10:10 to play in the first, Heldberg scored to spark a 6-1 run, that spanned just over 13 minutes, and saw the Blue Jays go up 9-5. The Buckeyes answered with a 6-2 run of their own to knot the score at 11 with 14:37 to play. Schneidereith scored what turned out to be the game-winner at the 13:18-mark and the defense made the 12-11 lead stand.
• After falling behind 6-1 early, Hopkins outscored  Ohio State 9-3 over the final 31 minutes to rally for a 10-9 win on Sunday. The Blue Jays trailed by three with 16:34 to play when Claire Mills scored to ignite a four-goal spurt that gave JHU a 9-8 lead with 3:31 to go. Ohio State answered just 42 seconds later to tie the game, but Shelby Harrison's free position goal with 7.1 ticks on the clock gave Hopkins the win.
  • Freshman Abbey Hurlbrink was named the Big Ten Freshman of the Week on Tuesday after her performance in JHU's two wins at Ohio State.
• Hurlbrink totaled three goals, one ground ball, three caused turnovers and six draws in two wins over the Buckeyes. She scored, picked up a ground ball, controlled three draws and caused three turnovers in the game one win. Her third caused turnover of the game came with eight seconds remaining and helped secure the Blue Jays' 12-11 win. Two days later, she scored a pair of goals and controlled three draws. She was also part of a defense that held the Buckeyes to three second-half goals, including just one in the final 18 1/2 minutes.
• Hurlbrink has scored six goals, on just eight shots on goal, in five games and ranks second on the team with 10 draws. She leads freshmen in the Big Ten in draws and is tied for first in goals.
  • 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.
  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 14 draws to rank 6th (has 139)
• Needs 6 caused turnovers to rank 11th (has 56)
 
Aurora Cordingley (Sr. • A):
• Needs 6 points to rank 14th (has 142)
• Needs 2 goals to rank 19th and 5 to rank 18th (has 87)
• Needs 1 free position goal to rank 13th and 2 to rank 11th (has 18)
• Needs 1 assist to rank 7th and 7 to rank 6th (has 55)
 
Kathleen Garvey (Sr. • GK):
• Needs 11 saves to rank 10th and 37 to rank 9th (has 109)
 
Shelby Harrison (Sr. • M):
• Needs 2 free position goals to rank 5th and 7 to rank 4th (has 23)
• Needs 32 draws to rank 2nd (has 208)
 
Mackenzie Heldberg (Gr. • A):
• Needs 3 points to rank 18th and 11 to rank 17th (has 124)
• Needs 6 assists to rank 13th (has 40)
 
Jeanne Kachris (Sr. • D):
• Needs 2 caused turnovers to rank 13th and 5 to rank 12th (has 50)
 
Kaitlyn Pham (Jr. • GK):
• Needs 4 saves to rank 13th and 13 to rank 12th (has 6)
 
Maggie Schneidereith (Gr. • A):
• Needs 1 point to rank 4th and 37 to rank 3rd (has 216)
• Needs 9 goals to rank 6th (has 132)
• Needs 7 assists to rank 4th (has 84)
 
Lexi Souder (Gr. • M):
• Needs 1 draw to rank 15th, 3 to rank 13th, 4 to rank 12th and 5 to rank 11th (has 90)
  • 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.
  • Head coach Janine Tucker needs just three wins to reach 300 for her career. She would become just the ninth coach in NCAA Division I history to reach the milestone.
  • The Blue Jays are 161-64-2 (.713) all-time in the month of March, including 130-51 (.718) under head coach Janine Tucker.
• Since moving to Division I in 1999, Hopkins is 110-46 (.705) in the month of March. 
  • Maggie Schneidereith has had multi-assist games in two of the Blue Jays' five games this season. She is Hopkins' active career leader with 84 assists, which ranks fifth in school DI history and eighth all-time. 
• 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. In game two against fourth-ranked Northwestern, seven of the Blue Jays' nine goals were assisted.
• Aurora Cordingley led the Blue Jays and the Big Ten, and ranked 12th nationally with 18 helpers last season. She ranks eighth in the league with 1.40 assists per game and is tied for eighth in school DI history with 55 career assists.
• Mackenzie Heldberg ranked second on the team and fourth in the conference with 12 assists last season. She currently is tied for third on the team in assists (4) and ranks 14th in program history in career assists (40).
  • The Blue Jays return an astonishing amount of their offense from the 2020 season - 96.7% of their goals (90), 97.9% of their assists (48) and 97.2% of their points (138).
• Leading the way are Aurora Cordingley (17g, 18a), Mackenzie Heldberg (16g, 12) and Maggie Schneidereith (17g, 8a), who each totaled at least 20 points in seven games in 2020. Through five games this season, the trio has combined for 27 goals and 16 assists.
  • Last season, Hopkins led the Big Ten and ranked 14th in the nation with 10.86 caused turnovers per game. This season, JHU leads the league in ground balls per game (18.40) and ranks second in caused turnovers (10.60).
• Annika Meyer led the Blue Jays and the Big Ten, and ranked 24th in the nation with 1.86 takeaways per game in 2020. She ranks second in the league and 36th in the nation in ground balls (3.20) this season. She also ranks 10th in the Big Ten with 1.40 caused turnovers per game.
• Trinity McPherson had a game-high three caused turnovers as the Blue Jays totalled nine versus the Scarlet Knights in the season opener. She ranks fourth in the Big Ten in both ground balls (2.40) and fifth in caused turnovers (1.80) per game.
• Keegan Barger is the team's active career leader with 56 caused turnovers, which ranks 12th in school Division I history. She also holds the school single-game record with seven takeaways in a game. Jeanne Kachris ranks 15th in school history with 55 caused turnovers.
  Seven Blue Jays carry active goal, assist and/or point streaks into Friday's game versus Maryland. Here's a look at those streaks:
 
Maeve Barker (So. • A):
• Has at least one point in 3 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 3 straight games
 
Keegan Barger (Sr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 2 straight games
 
Eliza Bowman (Fr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 2 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 2 straight games
 
Aurora Cordingley (Sr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 34 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 4 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 14 straight games
 
Shelby Harrison (Sr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 2 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 2 straight games
 
Mackenzie Heldberg (Gr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 12 straight games
 
Abbey Hurlbrink (Fr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 2 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 2 straight games
  •  Hopkins and Maryland meet for the 20th time in a series that began in 1979,  though the teams didn't meet again until 2000.
• The Blue Jays are 0-19 all-time against the Terrapins, including 0-3 since JHU joined the Big Ten in 2017. Hopkins and Maryland met in the postseason for three straight years (2016-2018).
• In the last meeting between the two (in 2019), Aurora Cordingley (4g, 1a) and Miranda Ibello (3g, 2a) each tallied five points in a 19-12 Terps' win in College Park. In addition, Shelby Harrison and Keegan Barger notched five draw controls each.
• Maggie Schneidereith leads all current Blue Jays with 11 points (4g, 7a) in five games versus the Terps. Mackenzie Heldberg and Cordingley have scored six goals each in their careers against Maryland. In addition, Harrison has controlled 11 draws in three games, while Lexi Souder has nine draws.