• Johns Hopkins finally returns to the field to host 14th-ranked Penn State at Homewood Field.
• JHU last played on March 12, a tough 9-8 overtime loss to ninth-ranked Maryland. Following a bye-week, the Blue Jays saw their two-game series at Michigan postponed twice leading to a 26-day layoff for the Blue Jays.
• 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.   
  • Hopkins dropped a heartbreaker in overtime to ninth-ranked Maryland at Homewood Field in its last outing. Hannah Leubecker scored with 3:08 to play in overtime to give the Terps a 9-8 win.
• Hopkins took an early 2-1 lead, but Maryland answered with three straight to go up 4-2. The Blue Jays answered with three of their own to take a 5-4 lead into the half. The Terps came out firing in the second with three unanswered to go up 7-5. The teams then traded goals and Maryland led 8-6 with 10:57 to play.
• Shelby Harrison and Aurora Cordingley scored back-to-back goals less than three minutes apart to tie the game at the 6:09-mark. Both defenses got stops over the final six minutes and for the first time in 20 meetings, Hopkins and Maryland would need overtime to decide a winner.
• Mackenzie Heldberg led the Blue Jays with a game-high five points (2g, 3a) while Maggie Schneidereith and Cordingley had three points (2g, 1a) each. Kathleen Garvey finished with 12 saves for her third double-digit save performance of the season.
  • On Wednesday, Hopkins and Penn State will be playing in support of the One Love Foundation.
• The One Love Foundation was founded in honor of Yeardley Love, a University of Virginia women's lacrosse player who tragically lost her life in 2010 at the hands of her ex-boyfriend.
• One Love's mission is to educate young people about healthy and unhealthy relationships, empowering them to identify and avoid abuse and learn how to love better. Young women in Yeardley's age group are at three times greater risk for relationship violence and abuse than any other demographic. • 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.
• 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 seven goals, on just nine shots on goal, in six games and ranks second on the team with 13 draws. She ranks third among freshmen in the Big Ten in draws and 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 3 points to rank 14th, 4 points to rank 13th and 8 points to rank 12th (has 145)
• Needs 3 goals to rank 18th, 6 to rank 16th and 8 to rank 15th (has 89)
• Needs 1 free position goal to rank 13th and 2 to rank 11th (has 18)
• Needs 6 assists to rank 6th (has 56)
 
Kathleen Garvey (Sr. • GK):
• Needs 25 saves to rank 9th and 76 to rank 8th (has 121)
 
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 6 points to rank 17th and 12 to rank 16th (has 129)
• Needs 3 goals to rank 20th and 6 to rank 18th (has 86)
• Needs 3 assists to rank 13th and 6 to rank 12th (has 43)
 
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 34 points to rank 3rd (has 219)
• Needs 7 goals to rank 6th and 8 to rank 5th (has 134)
• Needs 6 assists to rank 4th (has 85)
 
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.
  • Maggie Schneidereith has had multi-assist games in two of the Blue Jays' six games this season. She is Hopkins' active career leader with 85 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. Against Maryland, seven of JHU's eight goals were assisted.
• Aurora Cordingley led the Blue Jays and the Big Ten, and ranked 12th nationally with 18 helpers last season. She ranks seventh in the league with 1.33 assists per game and is tied for seventh in school DI history with 56 career assists.
• Mackenzie Heldberg ranked second on the team and fourth in the conference with 12 assists last season. She is second on the team in assists (7) and 10th in the Big Ten with 1.17 assists per game. She also ranks 14th in program history in career assists (43).
  • 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 six games this season, the trio has combined for 33 goals and 21 assists. They account for 57.9 percent of the Blue Jays' goals and 61.7 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 (9.67) and ranks second in ground balls per game (17.00).
• 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 fourth in the league and 26th in the nation in ground balls (3.00) this season. She also ranks seventh in the Big Ten with 1.33 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 fifth in the Big Ten in ground balls (2.50) and fourth in caused turnovers (1.67) 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.
  Five Blue Jays carry active goal, assist and/or point streaks into Wednesday's game versus Penn State. Here's a look at those streaks:
 
Maeve Barker (So. • A):
• Has at least one point in 4 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 4 straight games
 
Aurora Cordingley (Sr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 35 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 5 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 15 straight games
 
Shelby Harrison (Sr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 3 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 3 straight games
 
Mackenzie Heldberg (Gr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 13 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 2 straight games
 
Abbey Hurlbrink (Fr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 3 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 3 straight games
  •  Hopkins and Penn State meet for the 22nd 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, 16-5, and has won the last five meetings. Thelast two games have been decided by just two goals and seven of the last 18 meetings have been one-goal affairs. In fact, 14 of the last 19 games have been decided by three or fewer goals.
• The teams have met four times in the postseason, including one NCAA Tournament game.
• The Blue Jays last beat the Nittany Lions on May 1, 2014 in the ALC Tournament in Evanston, IL. Sammy Cermack led Hopkins with four points (2g, 2a) while Dene' DiMartino added a hat trick. 

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