OPENING DRAW
• Johns Hopkins returns home for the first of two straight at Homewood Field as the Blue Jays welcome Georgetown to Baltimore.
• The Blue Jays are coming off a 10-8 win at then 19th-ranked Penn last Saturday at Franklin Field.   

WRAPPING UP FEBRUARY 
• The Blue Jays capped the February portion of their 2022 schedule with last week's win at Penn.  Hopkins is 40-21 (.656) under head coach Janine Tucker in the month of February. 
• Now in their 47th season, the Blue Jays did not play a game in the month of February until 2002. Hopkins, then in just its fourth season as a Division I program, lost to Vanderbilt, 7-4, on February 24.

LAST SEASON, BEST SEASON 
• Head coach Janine Tucker announced in August that 2022 will be her final season at Johns Hopkins. She is in her 29th, and final, season and sports a career record of 305-172 (.639), including a 237-156 (.603) record since she successfully transitioned the program from Division III to Division I in 1999. 

• The all-time winningest coach in program history, Tucker has led the Blue Jays to double-digit wins 22 times, 13 NCAA Tournament appearances and three ECAC Division I championship games. Her 305 wins are the second most by a female coach in any sport in Johns Hopkins history. 

• In a career filled with thrilling victories and big moments, Tucker's most recent milestone came in 2021 as she became just the ninth coach in NCAA Division I history to reach 300 wins when her Blue Jays beat 13th-ranked Penn State, on April 18. 

• Tucker was presented with the IWLCA's Diane Geppi Aikens Award in November. The award is named in honor of the legendary Loyola coach whose courageous battle with cancer. inspired the nation and recognizes lifetime achievement to the women's college game.

• After a successful career as an All-American lacrosse player at Loyola, Tucker broke into the coaching ranks at her alma mater as an assistant alongside Geppi Aikens.

LAST TIME OUT (Johns Hopkins-10, Penn-8 / Feb. 26, 2022)
• Penn jumped out to a three-goal lead in the first seven minutes of the game with three different Quakers getting on the board early. Junior Madison McPherson got the Blue Jays on the board with 3:29 to play in the first when she dodged the middle of the fan and scored on a lefty shot on the run. Just 80 seconds later, freshman Charlotte Smith buried a free position shot to pull Hopkins within one.  The teams traded goals in the final two minutes of the first quarter, which ended with Penn holding a 4-3 lead.

• The Blue Jays drew even just 1:31 into the second quarter as sophomore Abbey Hurlbrink weaved thru the defense and beat Krissy Kowalski to the lower left corner. Penn retook the lead midway through the quarter when Niki Miles found Lexi Edmonds on the back-door for the one-timer.

• Shelby Harrison answered when she blew home a hard shot from 10 yards out to tie the game at five with 5:51 to go in the quarter before Kaitlyn Cumiskey gave Penn a 6-5 lead at the half after she scored just under three minutes before intermission. 

• Hopkins struck quickly early in the third quarter, scoring twice in just nine seconds to grab its first lead of the game. Senior Georgia Esmond found Smith open to her right and she beat Kelly Van Hoesen to tie the game. The Blue Jays were awarded the draw after a Quaker foul and just nine seconds later Harrison gave Hopkins the lead with her third of the game. An Edmonds goal with just three seconds on the third-quarter clock tied the game entering the fourth quarter.

• The Blue Jays erupted for three goals in a span of just two and a half minutes to push out to a 10-7 lead. After an Annika Meyer takeaway, McPherson found Esmond deep in the Quaker zone. Esmond drew a double team and scored over the top to put JHU on top. Just 60 seconds later, she took a pass from Smith on the doorstep, hitched a couple of times and then slipped a shot over Van Hoesen's shoulder. Sophomore Jordan Carr then beat Van Hoesen and the possession clock with a bouncer from in-tight to put the Jays up three.  

POLL POSITION
• Hopkins jumped up to 20th in this week's IL Women/IWLCA Poll.  The Blue Jays had been ranked 24th before topping 19th-ranked Penn.
• Seven of the Blue Jays' 2022 opponents are ranked in the top-25 in this week's IL Women/IWLCA Poll, including five in the top-10. 
• Hopkins has been ranked in 99 of the last 129 IWLCA Coaches Polls, beginning with the first regular season poll in 2012.  

FIRST TIMERS 
• A trio of Blue Jays scored their first career goals in the season-opening win vs. VCU as Jordan Carr, Georgie Gorelick and Charlotte Smith all struck against the Rams. 
• Junior Madison McPherson added her first career goal just 2:11 into the game versus ninth-ranked Loyola on February 19.

AGAINST THE HOYAS 
• Hopkins and Georgetown are meeting for the 26th time in a series that began in 1977
• Johns Hopkins leads the all-time series 13-12 and the Blue Jays have won two straight and seven of the last 10, including a thrilling 15-14 win in the last meeting on February 26, 2020. 
• The last four meetings in the series have all been one-goal affairs with the Blue Jays taking decisions of 11-10 (2017), 12-11 (2019) and 15-14 (2020) and the Hoyas snagging a 15-14 win in 2018.
• In 17 meetings since 2005 (all the meetings in Johns Hopkins' Division I era), the Hoyas hold a narrow 9-8 series lead.  Eight of the 17 have been decided by just one goal.

A FAMILIAR FACE
• Ricky Fried, the head coach at Georgetown, spent nine years as an assistant coach under Janine Tucker from 1994-2002.  During his time at Homewood, Fried helped Tucker transition the Blue Jays from a highly-successful Division III program to an up-and-coming Division I program in 1999.

I'M HONORED
• Senior attacker Georgia Esmond was named the Big Ten Co-Offensive Player of the Week on February 15. This is her second weekly conference honor as she was named B1G Freshman of the Week on March 4, 2019,
• Esmond totaled a game and career-high six points and four assists, along with three ground balls in the season-opening win against VCU. Five of her six points came in an 11-minute span of the second half as the Blue Jays turned a one-goal game into a nine-goal game. 

A FIRST-TIME HONOREE
• Freshman attacker Charlotte Smith was named the Big Ten Co-Freshman of the Week for her effort in the Blue Jays' 10-8 win at 19th-ranked Penn.
• Smith scored twice and added an assist for three points.  She is the ninth Blue Jay to earn B1G Freshman of the Week honors since Johns Hopkins joined the league in 2017.

AT THE DRAW 
• Fifth-year senior Shelby Harrison has led the team in draws in each of her four seasons and ranks second all-time in school history with 247 career draws. She notched the 200th draw of her career on February 28, 2021 versus Northwestern - in just her 47th career game. Harrison averages 3.98 draws per game in her career, the best per game average in program history. She needs 21 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. 

• Fifth-year senior Keegan Barger is also a threat at the draw circle. She ranked second on the team in draws in a COVID-shortened 2020 (17) and as a freshman (54). She ranks seventh in school history with 147 career draws. and has had five or more draws in a game nine times in her career.   

D - FENCE 
• The Blue Jay defense led the Big Ten and ranked 14th in the nation in caused turnovers (10.00) in 2021. JHU also ranked second in the league in scoring defense (11.20) and ground balls (17.60).

• Senior Annika Meyer ranked second in the Big Ten and 19th in the nation with 3.00 ground balls per game. She also ranked third in the league and 30th nationally with 1.73 takeaways per game. Meyer totaled 28 caused turnovers, which is tied for 12th in school Division I history. In addition, she totaled 45 ground balls – the most by a Blue Jay since 2014.

• Fifth-year senior Keegan Barger is the team's active career leader with 65 caused turnovers, which ranks 10th in school Division I history. She also holds the school single-game record with seven takeaways in a game. Fifth-year senior Jeanne Kachris ranks 13th in school history with 57 caused turnovers. 

• Hopkins held VCU to just six goals on 15 shots in its season-opener on February 12. The Blue Jays' also forced 13 Rams' turnovers, led by Meyer's game-high four takeaways. Hopkins also forced 12 turnovers versus Loyola.

HOME SWEET HOME(WOOD) 
• Under head coach Janine Tucker, the Blue Jays are 137-70 (.661) within the friendly confines of Homewood Field and the Jays are 46-24 (.657) at home since the start of the 2014 season. 

• Hopkins will play 10 of its 17 regular season games at Homewood this spring.  

ON THE TUBE 
• Johns Hopkins will play  three nationally-televised games this season. Hopkins' games versus Maryland (April 2) and Ohio State (April 23) will be televised by ESPNU while JHU's game at Penn State (April 28) will air on the Big Ten Network. 

• In addition, Hopkins' games at Penn (Feb. 26), Navy (Mar. 10) and Stony Brook (Mar. 13) will be shown on ESPN+

FOR THE RECORD 
• This marks the 47th season for Johns Hopkins, which sports an all-time record of 455-293-4 (.608) and a 237-156 (.603) record as a Division I program.

• The Blue Jays have posted 35 winning seasons, including 21 straight from 1987 to 2007. Hopkins has also made 18 NCAA Tournament appearances, including nine in the Division I Tournament (2004, 2005, 2007, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021). 

ON TAP 
• Hopkins returns to Homewood Field on Sunday, March 6 to take on 15th-ranked Drexel. Opening draw is slated for 1:00 pm. 

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