If you are like me (and for your sake, I hope you're not), you spent some time over the last two weeks watching the Summer Olympics play out in Tokyo.  Judge the coverage as you like, but you pretty much could watch something, either live or on delay, 24 hours a day for two straight weeks.
 
At one point in my life, I was a big Olympics guy.  The first one I vaguely remember was the 1976 summer games; my most vivid recollection of those games?  My older sister, Janine, not being able to walk right for about a week after she tried to emulate Romanian gold-medal gymnast Nadia Comaneci.  Being the supportive younger brother that I was, I of course laughed at her as she pulled every muscle in her legs trying to do a split.
 
Through the years, I've enjoyed so many great Olympic moments, from the 1980 US Hockey Team, to Eric Heiden, Carl Lewis, the Dream Team and of course, Johns Hopkins' own Ana Bogdanovski in 2016.  I especially loved Eddie the Eagle, but that's another story.
 
As I watched some of this year's games, I took note, especially during the swimming and track coverage, of the World and Olympic records that were broken.  As someone whose job literally revolves, to some degree, around statistics in 24 different sports here at Hopkins, how could I not focus on the records.
 
With that, it got me thinking about some of our own records – specifically, which of our records are unbreakable.  Yes, I know that every record could be broken, but some have lasted, or are likely to last, for quite a while.
 
I'm a little pressed for time, so this is pretty much off the top of my head and not inclusive of every sport.  In no particular order, here are a few of what I consider to be Hopkins' unbreakable – or mostly unbreakable (if that's a thing) records.
 
• The seniors on the 2016 Johns Hopkins football team went 40-0 during their career in the regular season.  That's four consecutive 10-0 regular seasons.  Unless the NCAA boosts the number of games that can be played in Division III, this one will never be broken.
 
• The aforementioned Ana Bogdanovski won 10 NCAA titles during her swimming career at JHU (five relays/five individual).  The next closest Blue Jays (Sarah Rinsma and Taylor Kitayama) have won five.  I think Ana's record is safe for a while.
 
• The 2004 Blue Jay baseball team started the season with 33 consecutive wins.  The season-opening 33-game run ended on a play at the plate in the bottom of the ninth (yes, of course I remember the score (4-3)).  We did win 32 in a row in 2010, but that wasn't to start the season.  Have a hard time believing we'll start a season better than 33-0.
 
• Johns Hopkins Hall of Famer and current USC men's basketball coach Andy Enfield went 123-of-129 (.953) from the free throw line as a senior during the 1990-91 season.  No other JHU player has shot better than 89.7% from the line while making 40 or more free throws in a season.  I like Andy's odds of staying at the top of the list for a bit.
 
• Mary Key rang up 383 points for the women's lacrosse team during her career from 2004-07 … or, 80 points more than anyone else in program history.  I think that covers women's lacrosse.
 
• Johns Hopkins played in nine consecutive NCAA Division I men's lacrosse national championship games from 1977-85.  Not only do I think this record is likely safe here at JHU, no other men's lacrosse program has played in more than four straight titles games; our nine straight appearances from '77 to '85 seems secure … both internally and nationally.
 
• Matt Doran scored a goal in 15 consecutive games for the Blue Jay men's soccer team during the 2000 season.  The next longest streak in school history is seven games (Chad Tarabolous/2002, Ted Zingman/1999).  Since Doran's mark is still tied for the longest in Division III history, I'm feeling like #2 will hold the Hopkins mark for a while.
 
• Meg Van de Loo went one better than Doran as she scored a goal in 16 straight games for the JHU women's soccer team in 2016.  The next longest streak in program history is eight games (Hannah Kronick/2011).  Speaking of Kronick, she amassed 200 career points (82g, 36a) during her career from 2011-14.  Couldn't decide which I thought was more unbreakable … so you get them both.
 
• Bill Milne won a program-record nine individual NCAA titles during his illustrious career on the Blue Jay men's swimming team from 1971-74.  Only Bill Smiddy (8/1977-79) has threatened the mark in the nearly 50 years since Milne jumped out of the pool for the last time.  On the "safe" scale I might put Milne pretty close to the top … consider that only one person (John Thomas/4/2007-10) has won more than three individual titles since I arrived at JHU in 1997.
 
• Julie Anderson scored 1,944 points for the Blue Jay women's basketball team from 1994-98.  Since she graduated, not one player has come with 500 points of her record. Anderson's classmate, Angie Arnold, did score more than 1,800 points in the same four-year period as Anderson, but only Lyndsay Burton (1,323/2007-11) has even reached 1,350 in the last 20 years.
 
• For all the success we've enjoyed in women's track and cross country, there is one record that stands above the rest.  Kathy Darling's school-record toss of 167'5" in the discus is 22-feet longer than anyone else's in program history.  In fact, her throw is nearly 7-feet longer than best mark in Johns Hopkins men's track history.
 
• Don't tell any Blue Jay lacrosse fans, but my down-low favorite sport at Hopkins is wrestling, which brings me to the two Pauls … Marcello and Bewak.  Paul Marcello (2008-12) won four consecutive Centennial Conference titles with a pair at 133 and two more at 141.  That record can be tied, but it can't be broken.  Paul Bewak (2011-15) overlapped with Marcello for two years and showed up in 2011 when our school record for wins in a career was 98 – he left four years later with 135 wins to his credit (135-24).  Enough said … time to eat.
   
Ernie Larossa is in his 24th year as the Director of Athletic Communications at Johns Hopkins.  In short, he has the greatest job in the world; he gets paid to watch Johns Hopkins athletes compete and chronicle their achievements.  In September, 2017, he decided it was time to periodically pen a column about something related to Blue Jay athletics.