• Johns Hopkins is back at Homewood Field to wrap up its 2021 home schedule with a rematch with 23rd-ranked Rutgers.
• The Blue Jays returned from a 26-day layoff with a 13-10 win over the 14th-ranked Penn State Nittany Lions on Wednesday afternoon. The snapped a five-game losing streak to Penn State and was JHU's first home win in the series since April 27, 2007.
• 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.
  • Aurora Cordingley poured in a career-high six goals to fuel Hopkins' 13-10 win over Penn State.
• With the game tied at four and six minutes to play in the half, Shelby Harrison scored to spark a five-goal Blue Jay run that bridged halftime. Penn State ended the run and a nearly 15-minute scoring drought  with a Sophia Triandafils goal with 22:01 left. The teams traded goals over an 11 minute span and Hopkins led 11-7.
• Back-to-back goals from Abbey Hurlbrink and Mackenzie Heldberg pushed the Blue Jays' lead to six with 8:27 to go. Penn State would pull within three by the 2:19-mark, but could get no closer.
• Maggie Schneidereith (2g, 1a) and Harrison (1g, 1a) were the only other multi-point scorers for the Blue Jays. Harrison also had a game and season-high eight draw controls.
• Annika Meyer led the defense with a career-high five caused turnovers while Trinity McPherson matched her career-high with four takeaways. Kathleen Garvey finished with 10 saves and three ground balls for her fourth double-digit save performance of the season.
  • Hopkins and Penn State played in support of the One Love Foundation on Wednesday afternoon.
• 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 eight goals, on just 10 shots on goal, in seven games and ranks second on the team with 16 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 2 points to rank 12th and 8 points to rank 11th (has 151)
• Needs 2 goals to rank 15th, 3 to rank 14th and 8 to rank 12th (has 95)
• Needs 2 free position goals to rank 11th and 2 to rank 10th (has 20)
• Needs 6 assists to rank 6th (has 56)
 
Kathleen Garvey (Sr. • GK):
• Needs 15 saves to rank 9th and 66 to rank 8th (has 131)
 
Shelby Harrison (Sr. • M):
• Needs 1 free position goal to rank 5th and 6 to rank 4th (has 24)
• Needs 24 draws to rank 2nd (has 208)
 
Mackenzie Heldberg (Gr. • A):
• Needs 5 points to rank 17th (has 130)
• Needs 2 goals to rank 20th and 5 to rank 19th (has 87)
• 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 31 points to rank 3rd (has 222)
• Needs 5 goals to rank 6th (has 136)
• Needs 5 assists to rank 4th (has 86)
 
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 two 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 a pair of multi-assist games this season. She is Hopkins' active career leader with 86 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 ninth in the league with 1.14 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 12th in the Big Ten with 1.00 assists per game. She also ranks 14th in program history in career assists (43).
  • 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 seven games this season, the trio has combined for 42 goals and 22 assists. They account for 60.0 percent of the Blue Jays' goals and 61.1 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 (10.43) and ranks second in ground balls per game (17.57).
• 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 20th in the nation in ground balls (3.14) this season. She also ranks third in the Big Ten with 1.86 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 (2.57) and second in caused turnovers (2.00) 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.
  Six Blue Jays carry active goal, assist and/or point streaks into Sunday's game versus Rutgers. Here's a look at those streaks:
 
Maeve Barker (So. • A):
• Has at least one point in 5 straight games
 
Aurora Cordingley (Sr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 36 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 6 straight games
 
Shelby Harrison (Sr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 4 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 4 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 2 straight games
 
Mackenzie Heldberg (Gr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 14 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 2 straight games
 
Abbey Hurlbrink (Fr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 4 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 4 straight games
 
Maggie Schneidereith (Gr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 2 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 2 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 2 straight games
  • Hopkins and Rutgers meet for the second time this season with the Blue Jays looking to avenge their earlier loss, 13-10, in their season-opener. It was the first win in the series for the Scarlet Knights in six meetings. 
• Hopkins has outscored Rutgers, 87-50, and won the draw battle, 87-60, in the six meetings.
• In their first meeting this season, Rutgers outscored Hopkins, 9-2, over the final 31 minutes of the game to defeat the Blue Jays 13-10 in JHU's season-opener. Senior Shelby Harrison led JHU and tied her career-high with four points (3g, 1a). Sophomore Maeve Barker and graduate students Mackenzie Heldberg and Lexi Souder had two goals apiece. In addition, graduate student Maggie Schneidereith (1g, 2a) and senior Keegan Barger (2a) also had multi-point games. Senior Trinity McPherson led the Blue Jay defense with three caused turnovers.
• The 2018 meeting saw a pair of record-tying performances by then junior Miranda Ibello and freshman  Shelby Harrison. Ibello handed out a career-best eight assists to tie Taylor D'Amore's school record. Harrison controlled 11 draws, matching the total the entire Scarlet Knights' squad had, and tying her own school record set earlier that year.
• In their first year in the Big Ten (2017), the Blue Jays clinched a berth in the Big Ten Tournament with their 17-9 win over the Scarlet Knights at Homewood Field. 
 
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