• Johns Hopkins continues its four-game road swing on Sunday as the Blue Jays travel to State College to take on 13th-ranked Penn State.
• Hopkins is coming off a heartbreaking 9-8 loss at 11th-ranked Maryland on Wednesday. Both of the Blue Jays' losses to the Terps this season have come by a 9-8 score.
• It will be a mad dash to the end of the regular season for Hopkins as it is scheduled to play six games in 17 days - with the final four games on the road.
  • The 26-day layoff seems to be just what the doctor ordered. In the three games since, JHU has scored 38 goals, with 20 assists, and is connecting on 61.3 percent of its shots on goal. In addition, Hopkins is 8-of-20 (.400) on free position shots and is 41-of-73 at the draw (.562). In the cage, Hopkins has posted a .500 save percentage and a 9.67 goals against average.
  • Maryland scored with 39.3 seconds remaining to take a 9-8 over Hopkins on a rain-soaked Wednesday afternoon and held on for the come-from-behind win.
• The Blue Jays fell behind 7-4 with 26:04 to play in the game, but used a methodical four-goal run that spanned more than 17 minutes to grab an 8-7 lead at the 7:27-mark. The Terps would score the final two goals however to take the win.
• Aurora Cordingley led Hopkins with four goals to extend her point-scoring streak to 38 games. Mackenzie Heldberg tallied three points (1g, 2a) while Maggie Schneidereith (1g, 1a) and Shelby Harrison (1g, 1a) each had two points. Trinity McPherson and Annika Meyer had three caused turnovers apiece as the Blue Jay defense forced 14 turnovers.
  • Seniors Aurora Cordingley, Shelby Harrison and Kathleen Garvey were honored by the Big Ten on Tuesday for their performances in Hopkins' wins over Penn State and Rutgers.
• Cordingley was named the Co-Offensive Player of the Week as well as the US Lacrosse Player of the Week after totaling 12 goals, one assist, 11 draw controls and five caused turnovers. She scored a career-high six goals, caused three turnovers and controlled a then career-high five draws versus Penn State. Cordingley followed that with six goals, one assist, two caused turnovers and six draws against Rutgers.
•  Harrison finished with three goals, one assist, one ground ball and 14 draw controls in the two wins. She notched two points, one ground ball and a game and season-high eight draws against Penn State. She then scored twice and controlled six draws in the win over Rutgers.
• Garvey totaled 22 saves, six ground balls and a caused turnover for the week. She made 10 saves and collected three ground balls versus Penn State. She followed that with 12 saves, including 10 in the second half, three ground balls and a takeaway against Rutgers.
• Freshman Abbey Hurlbrink was named the Big Ten Freshman of the Week on March 9 after her performance in JHU's two wins at Ohio State. She totaled three goals, one ground ball, three caused turnovers and six draws in two wins over the Buckeyes. Hurlbrink has scored nine goals, on just 13 shots on goal, in nine games and ranks second on the team with 18 draws. She ranks third among freshmen in the Big Ten in draws and goals.
  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 10 points to rank 10th (has 162)
• Needs 5 goals to rank 11th and 8 to rank 10th (has 105)
• Needs 1 free position goal to rank 10th and 3 to rank 5th (has 22)
• Needs 5 assists to rank 6th (has 57)
• Needs 1 caused turnover to rank 20th, 2 to rank 19th and 3 to rank 17th (has 45)
 
Kathleen Garvey (Sr. • GK):
• Needs 47 saves to rank 8th (has 150)
 
Shelby Harrison (Sr. • M):
• Needs 5 free position goals to rank 4th (has 25)
• Needs 15 draws to rank 2nd (has 225)
 
Mackenzie Heldberg (Gr. • A):
• Needs 1 point to rank 16th and 8 points to rank 15th (has 140)
• Needs 3 goals to rank 19th and 6 to rank 17th (has 89)
• Needs 4 assists to rank 9th and 5 to rank 8th (has 51)
 
Jeanne Kachris (Sr. • D):
• Needs 4 caused turnovers to rank 12th (has 52)
 
Trinity McPherson (Sr. • D):
• Needs 1 caused turnover to rank 19th, 2 to rank 17, 3 to rank 16 and 4 to rank 15th (has 46)
 
Kaitlyn Pham (Jr. • GK):
• Needs 4 saves to rank 13th and 13 to rank 12th (has 6)
 
Maggie Schneidereith (Gr. • A):
• Needs 25 points to rank 3rd (has 228)
• Needs 3 goals to rank 6th and 4 to rank 5th (has 138)
• Needs 1 assist to rank 4th and 6 to rank 3rd (has 90)
 
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 scored the 100th goal of her career on April 11 with her fifth goal of the day. She is the 14th player in school Division I history, and 28th all-time to reach the milestone.
• 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.
  • 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.
  • Head coach Janine Tucker needs just one win to reach 300 for her career. She would become just the ninth coach in NCAA Division I history to reach the milestone.
• Tucker would become the seventh coach, and just the second woman, in Johns Hopkins history to win 300 games.
  • After back-to-back wins over top-25 teams, Hopkins jumped into the IWLCA Coaches Poll and is ranked 20th with 120 points. JHU is also ranked 14th in the Nike/US Lacrosse Poll.
• All six of the Blue Jays' 2021 opponents are ranked in the top-25 by the IWLCA this week.
• Hopkins has been ranked in 93 of the last 123 IWLCA Coaches Polls, beginning with the first regular season poll in 2012. 
  • Maggie Schneidereith has had three multi-assist games this season and she is Hopkins' active career leader with 90 assists. She ranks fifth in school Division I history and seventh all-time in career assists. Schneidereith aso ranks ninth in the Big Ten with 1.25 assists per game.
• Last season, Hopkins ranked second in the Big Ten and 20th nationally in assists per game (7.00). Hopkins has notched 54 assists on 95 goals this season (56.8 percent). 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. Against Maryland, seven of JHU's eight goals were assisted. Last Sunday, Hopkins totaled 13 assists on its 17 goals. The Blue Jays rank second in the league and 26th in the nation with 6.00 assists per game.
• Last season, Aurora Cordingley led the Blue Jays and the Big Ten, and ranked 12th nationally with 18 helpers. In 2021, she is third on the team and 12th in the league with 1.12 assists per game. For her career, she is seventh in school DI history with 57 career assists.
• Mackenzie Heldberg ranked second on the team and fourth in the conference with 12 assists last season. She leads the team in assists (15) and is fifth in the Big Ten with 1.62 assists per game this season. She also ranks 10th in program history in career assists (51). Heldberg handed out a career-best six assists in the win over Rutgers last Sunday, two shy of the school single-game record.
  • The Blue Jays returned 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 nine games this season, the trio has combined for 56 goals and 35 assists. They account for 58.9 percent of the Blue Jays' goals and 64.8 percent of their 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 caused turnovers (10.75) and ranks second in ground balls per game (17.50).
• 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 third in the league and 21st in the nation in ground balls (3.00) this season. She also ranks third in the Big Ten with 1.75 caused turnovers per game.
• Trinity McPherson had four caused turnovers in the win over Penn State on Wednesday and followed that with three takeaways versus Rutgers and Maryland. She ranks fifth in the Big Ten in ground balls (2.62) and second in caused turnovers (2.12) 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 13th in school history with 52 caused turnovers.
  Five Blue Jays carry active goal, assist and/or point streaks into Sunday's game at Penn State. Here's a look at those streaks:
 
Maeve Barker (So. • A):
• Has at least one point in 7 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 2 straight games
 
Aurora Cordingley (Sr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 38 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 8 straight games
 
Shelby Harrison (Sr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 6 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 6 straight games
 
Mackenzie Heldberg (Gr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 16 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 4 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 2 straight games
 
Maggie Schneidereith (Gr. • 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
  • Senior Shelby Harrison has led the team in draws in each of her four seasons and ranks third all-time in school history with 225 career draws. She notched the 200th draw of her career on February 28 versus Northwestern - in just her 47th career game. Harrison averages 4.25 draws per game in her career and needs 42 draws to break Dene DiMartino's all-time record of 267. In the last three games, she has controlled 17 draws. 
• 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 15 times in her career and her 4.25 career draws per game is the best in school history.
• 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 seventh in school history with 139 career draws. She has had five or more draws in a game nine times in her career.  
  •  Hopkins and Penn State meet for the 23rd time in a series that began in 2002 with the inception of the American Lacrosse Conference (ALC). The Blue Jays and the Nittany Lions were charter members of the ALC, which disbanded after the 2014 season with the formation of the Big Ten.
• Penn State leads the all-time series, 16-6, but Hopkins won the last meeting and snapped a five-game losing streak against the Nittany Lions. Two of the last three games have been decided by just two goals and 15 of the last 20 games have been decided by three or fewer goals.
• The teams have met four times in the postseason, including one NCAA Tournament game.
• Maggie Schneidereith leads all current Blue Jays with eight goals and five assists in her career against Penn State. Aurora Cordingley poured in six goals in the last meeting with PSU and Shelby Harrison controlled eight draws and has 16 in four games against Penn State.