• Johns Hopkins travels to the Land of Lincoln this weekend to take on third-ranked Northwestern in Big Ten action.
• Hopkins hits the road to Evanston riding a two-game win streak. The Blue Jays beat the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers 16-8 Sunday afternoon at Homewood.     
  • The Blue Jays are 223-160-2 (.581) all-time in the month of April, including 117-70 (.625) under head coach Janine Tucker.
• Since moving to Division I in 1999, Hopkins is 76-63 (.547) in the month of April.
  • Three of Hopkins' losses this season have come by just one or two goals to ranked opponents.
• JHU lost in overtime at 25th-ranked Navy on March 10 and then dropped a tough two-goal decision to 10th-ranked Michigan eight days later. Hopkins fell by just one goal at 13th-ranked Rutgers (March 26).
• In addition, two of the Blue Jays' wins have come by one or two goals. Hopkins beat host and 19th-ranked Penn (February 26) by two goals. On Wednesday night, JHU beat host Towson in overtime.
  • 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 311-177 (.637), including a 243-161 (.601) 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 311 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 is ranked 25th in this week's IL Women/IWLCA Poll.
• Seven of the Blue Jays' 2022 opponents are ranked in the top-25 in this week's IL Women/IWLCA Poll, including four in the top-10 (Maryland, Northwestern, Stony Brook, Loyola).
• The Blue Jays boast the ninth toughest schedule in the nation this season. JHU's opponents have a combined win percentage of 64.4.  
• Hopkins has been ranked in 105 of the last 135 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 1 ground ball to rank 18th, 2 to rank 17th and 9 to rank 16th (has 106)
• Needs 39 draws to rank 5th (has 163)
• Needs 4 caused turnovers to rank 7th (has 75)
 
Kathleen Garvey (Gr. • GK):
• Needs 23 saves to rank 4th (has 314)
 
Shelby Harrison (Gr. • M):
• Needs 1 point to reach 100 for her career (has 99)
• Needs 12 goals to reach 100 for her career (has 88)
• Needs 13 free position goals to rank 1st (has 42)
• Needs 2 caused turnovers to rank 16th (had 50)
 
Jeanne Kachris (Gr. • D):
• Needs 6 ground balls to rank 13th (has 118)
• Needs 4 caused turnovers to rank 6th (has 79)
 
Annika Meyer (Sr. • D):
• Needs 1 caused turnover to rank 12th and 3 to rank 10th (has 63)
• Needs 1 ground ball to rank 17th and 8 to rank 16th (has 107)
 
Kaitlyn Pham (Jr. • GK):
• Needs 2 saves to rank 13th and 11 to rank 12th (has 8)
  • Kathleen Garvey notched her 300th career save in the win at Towson (April 6). She is the sixth goalie in school Division I history, and 10th all-time, to reach the mark.
• Garvey is tied for fifth in JHU DI history with 314 career saves and is tied for ninth all-time. She also leads all active goalies in the Big Ten in career saves.
  • 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.
  • Inside Lacrosse released its Midseason All-America Teams on Thursday and three Blue Jays were named to Honorable Mention - fifth-year seniors Shelby Harrison and Jeanne Kachris and senior Annika Meyer.
• Harrison leads the Blue Jays in goals (32), free position goals (15) and draws (49) and is second in points (34). She is eighth in the Big Ten in draws per game (3.50).
• Kachris leads Hopkins with a career-high 25 caused turnovers and is also second in ground balls (26). She ranks second in the league in caused turnovers per game (1.79) and is 10th in ground balls per game (1.86).
• Meyer is JHU's leader in ground balls (29) and is second in caused turnovers (18). She is tied for sixth in the Big Ten in ground balls per game (2.07) and tied for seventh in caused turnovers per game (1.29).
  • Fifth-year senior Shelby Harrison became Johns Hopkins all-time leader in draw controls at Rutgers (March 26). She won the game's opening draw, the 268th of her career, to break Dene' DiMartino's (2013-16) record. Harrison finished with a game-high seven draws. It was the 24th time in her career (69 games) that she has had five or more draws.
• Harrison ranks 14th among all active players in the nation, and second among players in the Big Ten, with her 285 draws.
• Harrison has led the team in draws in each of her five seasons and notched the 200th draw of her career on February 28, 2021 versus Northwestern - in just her 47th career game. She averages 3.90 draws per game in her career, the best per game average in program history. Harrison holds the school record for draws in a game (11) and by a freshman (91).
• 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 163 career draws. and has had five or more draws in a game nine times in her career.  
• Senior Mia Farnella has emerged as a draw specialist this season and ranks second on the team with 26 daws (2.60 per game). She entered the season with nine career draw controls.
  • Johns Hopkins outscored Coastal Carolina, 11-4, over the second and third quarters en route to a 16-8 win Sunday.
• The Chanticleers struck first wbut the Blue Jays answered with a Georgie Gorelick free position goal at 8:42 that sparked a 6-0 Hopkins' run. The run spanned exactly 17 minutes and was capped by a Georgia Esmond transition goal.
• Hannah Demis scored on a free position shot at 5:13 to end Coastal Carolina's scoreless drought of more than 22 minutes. Shelby Harrison had the final say of the half, scoring on a free position shot to complete her first-half hat trick and send Hopkins into the break with a 7-2 lead.
• The Blue Jays wasted little time pushing their lead to seven with back-to-back Abbey Hurlbrink goals in the opening 88 seconds of the second half. Lauren Cremen answered for Coastal at 13:03, but Hopkins came right back with three goals in less than two minutes.
• The Chants sandwiched a pair of goals around a Gorelick strike and it was 13-5 with 1:03 to play in the third. The Blue Jays responded with another three-goal spurt, with goals from Maeve Barker, Ashley Mackin and Carly Steinlauf to push out to a 16-5 lead with 10:55 left. The Chanticleers scored three goals in the final five minutes to make it an eight-goal game.
• Twelve Blue Jays tallied at least one point, led by Esmond (1g, 3) and Keegan Barger's (4a) four-point outings. Barger's four assists are a career high, while Carr notched her first career hat trick.
• Harrison's hat trick was the 12th of her career and gave her 99 career points. Two of her goals came on free position and she now has 15 free position goals this season. That is tied for second most in school single-season history.
• Cameron Levine had a game and career-high five ground balls, to go with a pair of caused turnovers. Jeanne Kachris had three takeaways and three ground balls, while Annika Meyer had two caused turnovers and three ground balls. Kathleen Garvey made seven saves and allowed just four goals in 42 minutes of action.
  • Fifth-year Shelby Harrison leads the Blue Jays with a career-high 15 free position goals. She ranks second in the Big Ten and 14th in the nation in free position goals (1.07/game).
• Harrison ranks second all-time in school history with 42 free position goals. Her 15 fpg this season are tied for the second most in school single-season history and are five shy of Dene DiMartino's single season record (20 / 2016).
• Junior Madison McPherson is second on the team with a career-high seven free position goals. She also ranks 10th in the conference with 0.54 per game.
  • Junior middie Madison McPherson is having a breakout season on the offensive end of the field for the Blue Jays. After playing a primarily defense role in her first two seasons, she made the transition to more of a two-way middie.
• McPherson had tallied just one point in her first two seasons (17 games). This season, she ranks second on the team in goals (23) and is third in points (26) and assists (3). She also leads the team in shooting percentage (.500) and is second in free position goals (7).
  • Fifth-years Keegan Barger, Shelby Harrison and Jeanne Kachris have played in 73 games in their career - four shy of Maggie Schneidereith's school record (77 / 2017-21).
• In addition, Barger and Kachris have started all 73 games of their career. Schneidereith also holds the record for career starts (77).
  • Shelby Harrison needs just one point to reach 100 for her career. She would be the 26th player in school Division I history, and 44th all-time, to reach the milestone.
• Harrison also needs 12 goals to score 100 for her career. She would be the 16th in school DI history to reach the mark, and 30th all-time. 
  • A trio of Blue Jays - Jordan Carr, Georgie Gorelick and Charlotte Smith - scored their first career goals in the season-opening win versus VCU.
• Junior Madison McPherson scored her first career goal just 2:11 into the game versus ninth-ranked Loyola (February 19). She then tallied her first career hat trick in JHU's win over Georgetown (March 2). Senior Claire Mills also turned in her first career hat trick versus the Hoyas.
• Gorelick notched her first career hat trick in Hopkins come-from-behind win over Drexel (March 6).
• Four Blue Jays had career firsts in the win over the UMBC Retrievers (March 29). Fifth-year defender Jeanne Kachris scored her first career goal. Sophomores Jordan Carr, Cameron Levine and Marielle McAteer each notched their first career assist.
• Sophomore Liza Regan tallied her first career assist and freshman Ashley Mackin scored her first career goal in Sunday's win over Coastal Carolina.
  • Senior Georgia Esmond leads the Blue Jays and ranks fifth in the Big Ten  with 22 assists. She has at least one assist in 10 of Hopkins' 14 games this season and has had five 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 28 helpers to her credit. 
  • Hopkins and Northwestern meet for the 21st time in a series that began in 2002, with the inception of the American Lacrosse Conference.
• The Wildcats lead the series, 16-4, and have won five straight. NU is 6-1 against JHU in Evanston. Hopkins' last win in the series came on April 13, 2014 - in Evanston. The Blue Jays won 12-11 in double overtime. 
  • 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). 
  • 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. 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).
  Eight Blue Jays carry active goal, assist and/or point streaks into Saturday's game at Northwestern. In fact, three Blue Jays have a point-scoring streak in double digits. Here's a look at those streaks:
 
Keegan Barger (Gr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 2 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 2 straight games
 
Maeve Barker (Jr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 11 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
 
Jordan Carr (So. • M):
• Has at least one point in 4 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 2 straight games
 
Bailey Cheetham (Jr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 5 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 3 straight games
 
Shelby Harrison (Gr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 12 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 12 straight games
 
Abbey Hurlbrink (So. • M):
• Has at least one point in 2 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 2 straight games
 
Madison McPherson (Jr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 12 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 6 straight games
  • Senior attacker Georgia Esmond was named the Big Ten Co-Offensive Player of the Week on February 15. She finished with 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 (February 26). She scored twice and added an assist for three points.
  • The Blue Jay defense ranks second in the Big Ten and 17th in the nation with 9.50 caused turnovers per game. JHU is also third in the league and 21st in the nation in scoring defense (10.14).
• 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.
• Fifth-year senior Jeanne Kachris ranks seventh in school history and 12th among all active Division I players with 76 career caused turnovers. She is second in the Big Ten in caused turnovers (1.69/game). She is also tied for 15th in JHU history with 115 career ground balls. Kachris is 18th among all active Division I players in ground balls.
• Fifth-year senior Keegan Barger ranks eighth in JHU history, and is 14th among all active players in Division I, with 75 caused turnovers. She also holds the school single-game record with seven takeaways in a game.
• Senior Annika Meyer ranks eighth in the league in caused turnovers (1.23) and seventh in ground balls (2.00). She ranks 14th in program history with 61 career takeaways and is 19th with 104 career ground balls.
• Hopkins held VCU to just six goals on 15 shots in its season-opener (February 12). The Blue Jays' also forced 13 Rams' turnovers, led by Meyer's game-high four takeaways.
• In the come-from-behind win over Drexel (March 6), Hopkins held the Dragons scoreless for a stretch of 26:07 between the second and fourth quarters. Hopkins held ECU (March 20) scoreless for nearly 22 minutes in a drought that spanned the second and third quarters. Last Saturday, JHU held Rutgers scoreless for nearly 21 minutes in a drought that spanned the second and third quarters. And on March 29, the Blue Jays held the UMBC Retrievers scoreless for a span of 17:26 in the second and third quarters.
• On Wednesday night, Hopkins held Towson scoreless for 18:30, a drought that spanned the first to third quarters. 
  • 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.
  • 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 142-72 (.663) within the friendly confines of Homewood Field and the Jays are 51-26 (.662) 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 on 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 461-297-4 (.607) and a 243-161 (.601) 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 to Homewood Field to take on Ohio State in head coach Janine Tucker's final regular season home game on Saturday, April 23. Hopkins will also honor its seniors and graduate students after the game. Opening draw for the Big Ten contest is slated for 12:02 pm.