• Johns Hopkins is the number three seed in the 2021 Big Ten Tournament and will take on host and sixth-seeded Penn State in the quarterfinals.
• Hopkins is coming off a sweep of 23rd-ranked Michigan to wrap up the regular season as the Blue Jays finished in a tie for second in the Big Ten.
  • The Blue Jays wrapped up a stretch of six games in 17 days on Saturday as they raced to the end of the regular season after a 26-day layoff.
• That 26-day layoff seems to be just what the doctor ordered. In the six games since, JHU has scored 84 goals (14.00/game), with 40 assists, and is connecting on 70.2 percent of its shots on goal. In addition, Hopkins is 16-of-35 (.457) on free position shots and is 82-of-160 at the draw (.513). In the cage, Hopkins has posted a .454 save percentage and a 10.69 goals against average.
  • Hopkins swept host and 23rd-ranked Michigan last weekend in both teams' regular season finales. Thursday's win gave the Blue Jays six league wins on the season and secured the number three seed in the Big Ten Tournament.
• Trailing by four with 17:05 to play, Hopkins scored four goals in less than nine minutes to tie the game at 11. Michigan retook the lead with 6:53 to play, but a Mackenzie Heldberg goal with just 21 ticks on the clock tied the game and forced overtime. Freshman Abbey Hurlbrink then gave the Blue Jays the win with her second free position goal of the game with 52 seconds to play in overtime. Heldberg (5g) and senior Aurora Cordingley (2g, 3a) led Hopkins with five points apiece. Sophomore Madison McPherson had a career-best seven draws and picked up four ground balls while senior Kathleen Garvey made nine saves, including six in the second half. 
• Michigan jumped out to a 5-2 lead with 18:17 to go in the first half before a Shelby Harrison goal sparked a 6-1 run that put Hopkins on top 8-6. The Wolverines answered with a three-goal spurt to retake the lead. The Blue Jays responded with 12 of the next 14 goals to take a 20-11 lead with 6:49 remaining before a pair of late Wolverine goals. Maggie Schneidereith led Hopkins with a career-best seven goals and nine points while Heldberg and Maeve Barker added five points (3g, 2a) each.
  • Hopkins swept the Big Ten Player of the Week awards  and garnered the IWLCA National Player of the Week.
• Graduate student Maggie Schneidereith was named the B1G Offensive and IWCLA National Player of the Week after totaling nine goals and three assists and two ground balls. She scored twice and assisted on a third in Thursday's overtime win and followed that with a seven-goal, two-assist performance on Saturday. Schneidereith's seven goals and nine points are both career highs and her seven goals are one shy of the school record.
• Senior Trinity McPherson was named the B1G Defensive Player of the Week after tallying three caused turnovers and three ground balls in the sweep of the Wolverines.
• Sophomore Madison McPherson earned B1G Midfielder of the Week with 14 draws, six ground balls and one caused turnover versus Michigan. On Thursday, she had a career-high seven draws, picked up four ground balls and caused a turnover that led to the game-winning goal. She followed that with seven draws and two ground balls in Saturday's win.
• Freshman Abbey Hurlbrink was named the B1G Freshman of the Week with three goals, four caused turnovers and six draws. She scored two goals, including the overtime winner, in Thursday's win. She also caused three turnovers, picked up a ground ball and controlled a draw. On Saturday, Hurlbrink scored a goal, caused a turnover and had five draws. This was Hurlbrink's second B1G Freshman of the Week honor (March 9). She has scored 12 goals, on 19 shots on goal, in 2 games and ranks third on the team with 26 draws. She ranks second among freshmen in the Big Ten in draws and third in goals.
• Seniors Aurora Cordingley, Shelby Harrison and Kathleen Garvey were honored by the Big Ten on April 13 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 in the two wins.
•  Harrison was named the Midfielder of the Week with three goals, one assist, one ground ball and 14 draw controls.
• Garvey earned Defensive Player of the Week honors after totaling 22 saves, six ground balls and a caused turnover for the week.
  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 3 draws to rank 6th (has 140)
• Needs 2 caused turnovers to rank 11th and 4 to rank 10th (has 60)
 
Aurora Cordingley (Sr. • A):
• Needs 4 points to rank 9th and 14 to rank 8th (has 172)
• Needs 1 goal to rank 10th and 14 to rank 9th (has 112)
• Needs 2 free position goals to rank 6th and 3 to rank 5th (has 23)
• Needs 1 assists to rank 6th and 30 to rank 5th (has 61)
• Needs 3 caused turnovers to rank 19th (has 45)
 
Kathleen Garvey (Sr. • GK):
• Needs 22 saves to rank 8th (has 175)
 
Shelby Harrison (Sr. • M):
• Needs 4 free position goals to rank 4th (has 26)
• Needs 11 draws to rank 2nd and 38 to rank 1st (has 229)
 
Mackenzie Heldberg (Gr. • A):
• Needs 5 points to rank 12th and 18 to rank 10th (has 154)
• Needs 5 goals to rank 13th and 12 to rank 12th (has 98)
• Needs 2 goals to reach 100 for her career (has 98)
• Needs 5 assists to rank 7th and 6 to rank 6th (has 56)
 
Jeanne Kachris (Sr. • D):
• Needs 8 caused turnovers to rank 12th (has 52)
 
Trinity McPherson (Sr. • D):
• Needs 2 caused turnovers to rank 13th and 10 to rank 10th (has 50)
 
Kaitlyn Pham (Jr. • GK):
• Needs 4 saves to rank 13th and 13 to rank 12th (has 6)
 
Maggie Schneidereith (Gr. • A):
• Needs 9 points to rank 3rd (has 244)
• Needs 3 goals to rank 4th and 21 to rank 3rd (has 149)
• Needs 2 free position goals to rank 17th (has 15)
• Needs 1 assists to rank 3rd and 54 to rank 2nd (has 95)
• Needs 5 assists to reach 100 for her career (has 95)
 
Lexi Souder (Gr. • M):
• Needs 1 draw to rank 13th, 2 to rank 12th, 3 to rank 11th and 10 to rank 10th (has 92)
  • 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 became just the ninth coach in NCAA Division I history to win 300 games on Sunday when Hopkins beat host and 13th-ranked Penn State, 13-11.
• Tucker is only the seventh coach, and just the second woman, in Johns Hopkins history to win 300 games. 
  • Hopkins jumped two spots in the IWLCA Coaches Poll and is tied for 13th with 302 points. JHU is also ranked 12th in the Inside Lacrosse Media Poll and 13th in the Nike/US Lacrosse Poll.
• Five of the Blue Jays' six 2021 opponents are ranked in the top-25 by the IWLCA this week.
• Hopkins has been ranked in 95 of the last 125 IWLCA Coaches Polls, beginning with the first regular season poll in 2012. 
  • With her next start, graduate student Maggie Schneidereith will tie the school record for career games played and started with 75. Haley Schweizer set the standard in 2017. Schneidereith is one of only five players in school Division I history to start atleast 70 games.
  • In four seasons together, Maggie Schneidereith, Mackenzie Heldberg and Aurora Cordingley have combined to score 527 points. They are one of the most prolific scoring trios in program history.
• Only two trios that played together for four years scored more points than Schneidereith, Heldberg and Cordingley. Jen Ward, Francine Brennan and Carlene Barents combined to score 658 points from 1993 to 1996. Taylor D'Amore, Sammy Cermack and Sarah Taylor scored a total of 559 points from 2011 to 2014.
  • Maggie Schneidereith has had five multi-assist games this season and she is Hopkins' active career leader with 95 assists. She ranks fourth in school Division I history and sixth all-time in career assists. Schneidereith aso ranks seventh in the Big Ten with 1.33 assists per game.
• Hopkins has notched 74 assists on 141 goals this season (52.5 percent) and ranks second in the Big Ten in assists per game (6.08). The Blue Jays have assisted on at least 50 percent of its goals seven times this season. In four of those seven games, it is atleast 70 percent.
• 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 with 13 assists and seventh in school DI history with 61 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 (20) and is third in the Big Ten with 1.67 assists per game this season. She also ranks eighth in program history in career assists (56). Heldberg handed out a career-best six assists in the win over Rutgers, 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 12 games this season, the trio has combined for 83 goals and 49 assists. They account for 58.8 percent of the Blue Jays' goals and 66.2 percent of their assists.
  • Hopkins leads the league and ranks 15th in the nation in caused turnovers (10.25). The Blue Jays also rank second in the league in scoring defense (11.83) and third in ground balls per game (17.33).
• Annika Meyer leads the Blue Jays and ranks fourth in the league in ground balls (2.75) this season. She also ranks third in the Big Ten with 1.75 caused turnovers per game.
• Trinity McPherson has had at least two caused turnovers in a game seven times this season. She ranks second in the Big Ten in caused turnovers (1.92) per game and is fifth in ground balls (2.33). She is tied for 16th in school DI history with 50 career caused turnovers.
• Keegan Barger is the team's active career leader with 60 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.
  Six Blue Jays carry active goal, assist and/or point streaks into Thursday's Big Ten Quarterfinal at Penn State. Here's a look at those streaks:
 
Keegan Barger (Sr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 3 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 3 straight games
 
Maeve Barker (So. • A):
• Has at least one point in 10 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 3 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 5 straight games
 
Aurora Cordingley (Sr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 41 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 11 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 2 straight games
 
Mackenzie Heldberg (Gr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 19 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 7 straight games
 
Abbey Hurlbrink (Fr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 3 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 2 straight games
 
Maggie Schneidereith (Gr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 7 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 7 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 7 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 229 career draws. She notched the 200th draw of her career on February 28 versus Northwestern - in just her 47th career game. Harrison averages 4.08 draws per game in her career and needs 38 draws to break Dene DiMartino's all-time record of 267.  
• 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 4.08 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 140 career draws. She has had five or more draws in a game nine times in her career.  
  •  Hopkins and Penn State meet for the 24th 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, 16-7, but Hopkins has won the last two meetings. Two of the last four games have been decided by just two goals and 16 of the last 21 games have been decided by three or fewer goals.
• This will be the fifth meeting between the two in the postseason. 
• Maggie Schneidereith leads all current Blue Jays with 10 goals and seven assists in her career against Penn State. Aurora Cordingley has scored 10 goals  and Shelby Harrison has controlled 18 draws in five games against Penn State.   

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