• Johns Hopkins hits the road again to take on its third straight ranked opponent as the Blue Jays visit sixth-ranked Stony Brook on Sunday afternoon.
• Hopkins is coming off a tough 13-12 overtime loss at 25th-ranked Navy Thursday afternoon. The loss snapped the Blue Jays' three-game win streak.  
  • The Blue Jays are 162-64-2 (.715) all-time in the month of March, including 130-52 (.714) under head coach Janine Tucker.
• Since moving to Division I in 1999, Hopkins is 112-48 (.700) in the month of March.
  • The Blue Jays are looking forward to a more traditional schedule in 2022 with 11 non-conference and six Big Ten contests. Last year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Hopkins was unable to practice in the fall and then faced a Big Ten-only schedule in the spring, playing each Big Ten team twice.
• The 2022 schedule features 10 home games and three new opponents (VCU, East Carolina and Coastal Carolina). Seven of the Blue Jays' 2022 opponents advanced to the NCAA Tournament last season, including one which advanced to the national semifinals.
  • 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 307-173 (.639), including a 239-157 (.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 307 wins are the second most by a female coach in any sport in Johns Hopkins history. In addition, she ranks seventh among all JHU coaches in career victories.
• 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.
  • Hopkins jumped up to 16th in this week's IL Women/IWLCA Poll. The Blue Jays had been ranked 20th before topping 15th-ranked Drexel.
• Eight 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 100 of the last 130 IWLCA Coaches Polls, beginning with the first regular season poll in 2012. 
  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 (Gr. • M):
• Needs 48 draws to rank 5th (has 151)
• Needs 1 caused turnover to rank 7th and 17 to rank 6th (has 66)
 
Kathleen Garvey (Gr. • GK):
• Needs 57 saves to rank 6th (has 236)
 
Shelby Harrison (Gr. • M):
• Needs 1 free position goal to rank 3rd and 4 to rank 2nd (has 31)
• Needs 8 draws to rank 1st (has 259)
 
Jeanne Kachris (Gr. • D):
• Needs 7 ground balls to rank 16th (has 101)
• Needs 1 caused turnover to rank 11th and 3 to rank 8th (has 63)
 
Annika Meyer (Sr. • D):
• Needs 4 caused turnover to rank 13th (has 56)
 
Kaitlyn Pham (Jr. • GK):
• Needs 4 saves to rank 13th and 13 to rank 12th (has 6)
  • Hopkins jumped out to a four-goal lead with goals from four different scorers in the game's opening six minutes. Charlotte Smith gave the Jays the early lead, followed by goals from Madison McPherson, Maeve Barker and Georgie Gorelick. Navy answered with back-to-back goals to pull within two.
• McPherson and Smith sandwiched goals around a strike from Gil Eby to stake the Blue Jays to a 6-3 lead after one. Navy used a 4-2 run to pull within one with 3:07 to play in the half, but a late Claire Mills goal gave the Jays a 9-7 lead at the half. Navy bookended a two-goal JHU spurt with a pair of goals and it was an 11-9 Hopkins lead heading into the fourth. 
• The Mids scored three straight to open the fourth and grabbed their first lead of the game at the 7:43-mark. The Blue Jays battled back and got the equalizer on a Barker free position goal with 1:02 left. Navy won the draw to open overtime and possessed the ball for nearly two and a half minutes before Beardmore drew a free position shot with just one tick showing on the possession clock. Beardmore fired a shot as the horn sounded to set off the Navy celebration.
• Georgia Esmond led the Blue Jays with four points and a game-high three assists. Mills notched her second career hat trick while Barker (2g), McPherson (2g), Smith (2g) and Gorelick (1g, 1a) also had multi-point games.
• Jeanne Kachris led the defense with three caused turnovers and two ground balls. Annika Meyer and McPherson led the team with four ground balls apiece.
  • A trio of Blue Jays scored their first career goals in the season-opening win versus 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. She then tallied her first career hat trick in JHU's win over Georgetown on March 2. Senior Claire Mills also turned in her first career hat trick versus the Hoyas.
• Gorelick notched her first career hat trick last Sunday in Hopkins come-from-behind win over Drexel.
  • Senior Georgia Esmond leads the Blue Jays, ranks second in the Big Ten and 11th in the nation with 14 assists. In fact, she accounts for 63.6 percent of the team's assists (22) this season. Esmond has at least one assist in five of Hopkins' six games this season and has had four multi-assist games.
• Just four games into the season, Esmond had already doubled her career assist total. She entered the season with nine career assists and now has 23 helpers to her credit. 
  • Hopkins and Stony Brook meet for the ninth time in a series that began in 2010. The Seawolves lead the series, 5-3, and have won four straight.
• This will be the first meeting between the two since 2019. The teams were set to meet on April 20, 2020 at Homewood Field before the season was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Then in 2021, the Blue Jays played a Big Ten-only schedule.
  • Senior defender Annika Meyer has been named to the 2022 Tewaaraton Award Watch List. She is just the third Blue Jay defender to be named to the watch list and the first since Alyssa Kildare in 2012. A Hopkins women's lacrosse player has been named to the watch list 16 times in the last 19 seasons.
• Meyer was named a Big Ten Preseason Player to Watch after earning First Team All-Big Ten honors in 2021. She was also named a preseason All-American by both USA Lacrosse Magazine (Second Team) and Inside Lacrosse (Honorable Mention). 
• Meyer anchors a Blue Jay defense that ranks second the Big Ten in caused turnovers (10.17) and ranks fourth in scoring defense (9.50). She ranks third in the league in caused turnovers (1.67) and sixth in ground balls (2.33). In 2021, 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 caused turnovers per game.
  • Fifth-year seniors Shelby Harrison and Kathleen Garvey were also named Big Ten Preseason Players to Watch.
• Harrison, a two-time All-Big Ten selection in the midfield, returns as one of the top draw specialists in the 46-year history of the program. She has led the Blue Jays in draws in each of her four seasons and ranks second in JHU history with 247 career draws. She needs just 20 draws to tie Dene' DiMartino's school record. Harrison has also tallied 63 goals, including 29 free position goals, and 72 points in her career.
• Garvey returns after earning Big Ten Goalie of the Year honors in 2021. She led the league in saves (129) and was second in save percentage (.436), goals against average (11.14) and saves per game (8.60). She posted six double-digit save performances and ranks eighth in program history with 221 career saves.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Johns Hopkins was picked to finish fourth in the 2022 Big Ten Women's Lacrosse Preseason Poll of the league's seven head coaches.
• Northwestern was the unanimous pick to the win the Big Ten in 2022, followed by Maryland, Rutgers, Hopkins, Penn State, Ohio State and Michigan.
  • Fifth-year senior midfielders Keegan Barger and Shelby Harrison and senior defender Annika Meyer have been selected in a vote by their teammates as captains for the 2022 season.
• This is Barger's second turn as a captain as she was the Blue Jays' lone captain in 2021.
  • 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 259 career draws. She notched the 200th draw of her career on February 28, 2021 versus Northwestern - in just her 47th career game. Harrison averages 4.01 draws per game in her career, the best per game average in program history. She needs just eight draws to tie 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 sixth in school history with 154 career draws. and has had five or more draws in a game nine times in her career.  
  • The Blue Jay defense is second in the Big Ten and ranks 16th in the nation with 10.17 caused turnovers per game. JHU also ranks fourth in the league and 21st in the nation in scoring defense (9.50).
• In 2021, the Blue Jays led the Big Ten and ranked 14th in the nation in caused turnovers (10.00). JHU also ranked second in the league in scoring defense (11.20) and ground balls (17.60) a year ago.
• Senior Annika Meyer ranks third in the league in caused turnovers (1.67) and sixth in ground balls (2.33).. She has moved into the top-20 in school history in caused turnovers and currently ranks 14th with 56 career takeaways.
• Fifth-year senior Keegan Barger is the team's active career leader with 66 caused turnovers, which is tied for eighth 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 12th in school history with 63 caused turnovers and is tied for 17th with 101 career ground balls.
• 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 and 14 against Penn.
• In the come-from-behind win over Drexel, Hopkins held the Dragons scoreless for a stretch 26:07 between the second and fourth quarters.
  Seven Blue Jays carry active goal, assist and/or point streaks into Sunday's game at Stony Brook. Here's a look at those streaks:
 
Maeve Barker (Jr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 3 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 3 straight games
 
Eliza Bowman (So. • A):
• Has at least one point in 3 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 3 straight games
• Will miss the season due to injury
 
Georgia Esmond (Sr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 6 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 6 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 4 straight games
 
Georgie Gorelick (So. • 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
 
Shelby Harrison (Gr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 4 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 4 straight games
 
Madison McPherson (Jr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 5 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 5 straight games
 
Charlotte Smith (Fr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 6 straight games
  • The Blue Jays welcome back four seniors from last year's squad in Keegan Barger, Kat Garvey, Shelby Harrison and Jeanne Kachris. After the 2020 season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the NCAA granted all spring athletes an extra year of eligibility.
  • Head coach Janine Tucker welcomed eight freshmen to the team this season. Joining Hopkins are Hadley Boston, Paris Colgain, Jordan Conversano, Alayna Costa, Ashley Mackin, Annie Marshall, Quinlan O'Brien and Charlotte Smith.
• Colgain was ranked #17 by Inside Lacrosse while Boston was named to the Watch List.
  • Under head coach Janine Tucker, the Blue Jays are 139-70 (.665) within the friendly confines of Homewood Field and the Jays are 48-24 (.667) at home since the start of the 2014 season.
• Hopkins will play 10 of its 17 regular season games at Homewood this spring. 
  • 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+
  • This marks the 47th season for Johns Hopkins, which sports an all-time record of 457-294-4 (.608) and a 239-157 (.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).
  • Hopkins returns home and opens Big Ten play on Friday, March 18 against eighth-ranked Michigan. Opening draw at Homewood Field is slated for 2:00 pm.