• Johns Hopkins is back at Homewood Field to take on Coastal Carolina in the Blue Jays' final non-conference game of the season.
• Hopkins is coming off a thrilling overtime win at rival Towson on Wednesday night.    
  • The Blue Jays are 222-160-2 (.580) all-time in the month of April, including 116-70 (.623) under head coach Janine Tucker.
• Since moving to Division I in 1999, Hopkins is 75-63 (.543) 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 310-177 (.636), including a 242-161 (.600) 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 309 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 tied for 22nd 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 third toughest schedule in the nation this season. JHU's opponents have a combined win percentage of 66.1. Only Syracuse (68.8) and Florida (67.4) have tougher schedules.  
• Hopkins has been ranked in 104 of the last 134 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 2 ground balls to rank 17th and 9 to rank 16th (has 106)
• Needs 40 draws to rank 5th (has 162)
• Needs 1 caused turnover to rank 7th and 8 caused turnovers to rank 6th (has 75)
 
Kathleen Garvey (Gr. • GK):
• Needs 14 saves to rank 5th (has 306)
 
Shelby Harrison (Gr. • M):
• Needs 4 points to reach 100 for her career (has 96)
• Needs 15 goals to reach 100 for her career (has 85)
• Needs 15 free position goals to rank 1st (has 40)
• Needs 1 caused turnover to rank 18th and 3 to rank 16th (had 49)
 
Jeanne Kachris (Gr. • D):
• Needs 2 ground balls to rank 14th and 9 to rank 13th (has 115)
• Needs 7 caused turnovers to rank 6th (has 76)
 
Annika Meyer (Sr. • D):
• Needs 1 caused turnover to rank 13th and 3 to rank 12th (has 61)
• Needs 2 ground balls to rank 18th and 4 to rank 17th (has 104)
 
Kaitlyn Pham (Jr. • GK):
• Needs 2 saves to rank 13th and 11 to rank 12th (has 8)
  • 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 (29), free position goals (13) and draws (47) and is second in points (31). She is eighth in the Big Ten in draws per game (3.62).
• Kachris leads Hopkins with 22 caused turnovers, tying her career high, and is also second in ground balls (23). She ranks second in the league in caused turnovers per game (1.69) and is eighth in ground balls per game (1.82).
• Meyer is JHU's leader in ground balls (26) and is second in caused turnovers (16). She ranks seventh in the Big Ten in ground balls per game (2.00) and is eighth in caused turnovers per game (1.23).
  • 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 283 draws.
• Harrison has led the team in draws in each of her four seasons and notched the 200th draw of her career on February 28, 2021 versus Northwestern - in just her 47th career game. She averages 3.93 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 162 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.
  • Sophomore Abbey Hurlbrink scored with 1:58 to play in overtime to lift the Johns Hopkins to an 11-10 win at Towson Wednesday night.
• The Blue Jays jumped out to a 5-2 lead with goals from five different players. The Tigers responded with a four-goal run, in the span of just 92 seconds, to take a 6-5 lead. Fifth-year Shelby Harrison won the ensuing draw and carried into the zone before passing to a trailing Madison McPherson, who scored on the run to tie the game after one.
• Harrison put the Blue Jays back on top at the 12:20-mark in the second. The pace slowed from there and neither team scored again until Harrison cashed in on a free position shot with 3:04 to play in the quarter.
• Towson scored twice in a six-minute span to knot the score at eight with 7:29 to play in the third. Hopkins answered with a quick-stick goal from fifth-year Keegan Barger to go up 9-8 after three. The fourth started just like the third, with a pair of Towson goals as the hosts went up 10-9. Harrison tied the game with just 1:06 on the clock with her third free position goal of the game. 
• Fifth-year Kathleen Garvey made a pair of saves in overtime before Hurlbrink dodged the middle of the fan and picked the bottom left corner to give the Blue Jays the win.
• Harrison finished with a game-high four goals and five points, while also controlling three draws. Barker (2a), Bailey Cheetham (1g, 1a) and Hurlbrink (2g) also had multi-point games for the Blue Jays. Junior Haleigh Moore tied her career high with three caused turnovers to go with two ground balls and a draw control.
• Garvey finished with 10 saves, her fourth double-digit save performance in the last seven games. She also notched her 300th career save to become just the sixth player in school Division I history to do so.
  • Fifth-year Shelby Harrison leads the Blue Jays with a career-high 13 free position goals. She ranks third in the Big Ten and 14th in the nation in free position goals (1.00/game).
• Harrison ranks second all-time in school history with 40 free position goals. Her 13 fpg this season are the third most in school single-season history.
• Junior Madison McPherson is second on the team with a career-high seven free position goals. She also ranks 11th 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).
  • 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.
  • Senior Georgia Esmond leads the Blue Jays and ranks fifth in the Big Ten  with 19 assists. She has at least one assist in nine of Hopkins' 13 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 28 helpers to her credit. 
  • Hopkins and Coastal Carolina meet for the first time ever on Sunday. The Chanticleers are in their ninth season.
  • 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).
  • 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 third in the Big Ten and 18th in the nation with 9.38 caused turnovers per game. JHU is also third in the league and 24th in the nation in scoring defense (10.31).
• 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.
• 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. 
  Six Blue Jays carry active goal, assist and/or point streaks into Sunday's game versus Coastal Carolina. In face, three Blue Jays have a point-scoring streak in double digits. Here's a look at those streaks:
 
Maeve Barker (Jr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 10 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 3 straight games
 
Bailey Cheetham (Jr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 4 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 2 straight games
 
Shelby Harrison (Gr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 11 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 11 straight games
 
Madison McPherson (Jr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 12 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 6 straight games
  • 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 141-72 (.662) within the friendly confines of Homewood Field and the Jays are 50-26 (.657) 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 460-297-4 (.607) and a 242-161 (.600) 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 Big Ten play on Saturday, April 16 as the Blue Jays visit the third-ranked Northwestern Wildcats. Opening draw at Martin Stadium is slated for 12:00 pm CST.