• Johns Hopkins travels to the Garden State this week for the 2022 Big Ten Tournament. The fourth-seed in the tournament, Hopkins will face top-seeded and third-ranked Maryland in the first semifinal.
• Hopkins earned a crucial 10-5 win at Penn State in both team's regular season finale last Thursday. The win, combined with losses by Ohio State and Michigan, gave the fourth seed to JHU due to goal differential (JHU +1, UM 0, OSU -1).  
  • Johns Hopkins placed four players on the All-Big Ten teams it was announced Wednesday. Fifth-year defender Jeanne Kachris was named to the first team, while fifth-year attacker Shelby Harrison, junior midfielder Madison McPherson and senior defender Annika Meyer were named to the second team.
• The Blue Jays' four selections bring the program's total to 18 since joining the league in 2017 (no selections in 2020). Kachris and Harrison become the first players to earn All-Big Ten honors three times. Meyer earns All-Big Ten accolades for the second time while McPherson earns her first.
• In addition, fifth-year midfielder Keegan Barger was named to the Big Ten All-Sportsmanship Team.
  • This is the Blue Jays' fourth Big Ten Tournament appearance since joining the league in 2017 (no tournament in 2020). Hopkins is 1-3 all-time in the tournament and earned its first Big Ten Tournament win with an 11-9 win at Penn State in the 2021 quarterfinals.
• Hopkins will face Maryland for the fourth time in the B1G Tournament. In three of the four meetings, the Terps were the number one seed. 
• The Blue Jays are 19-35 all-time in postseason play, including 8-21 since moving to Division I in 1999.
  • On March 15, 1994, Hopkins beat Salisbury 14-5 to give head coach Janine Tucker a win in her first game on Homewood Field. On Saturday, Hopkins beat Ohio State, 17-14, to give Tucker a win in her final game on Homewood Field. That's a span of 10,266 days.
  • 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 313-178 (.637), including a 245-162 (.602) 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 23 times, 13 NCAA Tournament appearances and three ECAC Division I championship games. Her 313 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 moved up three spots in this week's IL Women/IWLCA Poll and is ranked 22nd with 69 points. In addition, Hopkins is receiving votes in the USA Lacrosse Magazine Poll.
• Six 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 seventh toughest schedule in the nation this season. JHU's opponents have a combined win percentage of 65.7. Hopkins is also 16th in the nation in RPI (.604).
• Hopkins has been ranked in 107 of the last 138 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 5 ground balls to rank 17th (has 110)
• Needs 39 draws to rank 5th (has 163)
• Needs 2 caused turnovers to rank 7th and 4 to rank 6th (has 79)
 
Kathleen Garvey (Gr. • GK):
• Needs 59 saves to rank 3rd (has 340)
 
Shelby Harrison (Gr. • M):
• Needs 2 goals to rank 17th and 3 to rnak 16th (has 95)
• Needs 5 goals to reach 100 for her career (has 95)
• Needs 11 free position goals to rank 1st (has 44)
• Needs 8 draws to reach 300 for her career (has 292)
• Needs 1 caused turnover to rank 15th and 8 to rank 14th (has 54)
 
Jeanne Kachris (Gr. • D):
• Needs 1 ground ball to rank 13th, 2 to rank 12th and 6 to rank 11th (has 123)
• Needs 2 caused turnovers to rank 6th and 9 to rnak 5th (has 81)
 
Annika Meyer (Sr. • D):
• Needs 1 ground ball to rank 15th and 7 to rank 14th (has 116)
• Needs 10 caused turnovers to rank 8th (has 69)
 
Kaitlyn Pham (Jr. • GK):
• Needs 2 saves to rank 13th and 11 to rank 12th (has 8)
  • With her goal just 2:02 into the third quarter at Northwestern (April 16), Shelby Harrison became the 26th player in school Division I history, and 44th all-time, to score 100 career points.
• Harrison also needs five goals to score 100 for her career. She would be the 16th in school DI history to reach the mark, and 30th all-time. 
  • 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 ranks fourth in JHU DI history with 340 career saves and is sevnth all-time. She also leads all active goalies in the Big Ten in career saves.
  • 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 April 6, JHU beat host Towson in overtime.
  • 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 March 31 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 (39), points (42), free position goals (17) and draws (56). She leads the Big Ten in free position goals, ranks 10th in goals per game (2.29) and draws per game (3.29).
• Kachris leads Hopkins with a career-high 27 caused turnovers and is also second in ground balls (31). She ranks second in the league in caused turnovers per game (1.59) and is 11th in ground balls per game (1.82).
• Meyer is JHU's leader in ground balls (39) and is second in caused turnovers (24). She is fifth in the Big Ten in ground balls per game (2.29) and fourth in caused turnovers per game (1.41).
  • 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 16th among all active players in the nation, and second among players in the Big Ten, with her 292 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 3.84 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 37 daws (2.84 per game). She entered the season with nine career draw controls. In the win over Ohio State (April 23), Farnella had a game and career-high seven draws.
  • Johns Hopkins held host Penn State to one goal in the final 39 minutes of the game and the Blue Jays got a career-high four goals from Abbey Hurlbrink to fuel a 10-5 win Thursday evening.
• The Blue Jays jumped out to a quick 2-0 lead as they scored twice in a 21-second span before the game was five minutes old. The Nittany Lions had the two-goal deficit cut in half in less than two minutes as Kristin O'Neill and Ellie Hollin sandwiched goals around a tally from Hurlbrink to make it 3-2 with 8:31 to play in the first; after the teams combined for five goals in 6:29 to open the game, neither team found the net in the final 8:31.
• Penn State scored back-to-back goals to open the second quarter to give the Nittany Lions their first lead of the game at 4-3 with 9:00 remaining in the first half. The Penn State defense pushed Hopkins' scoreless streak to just over 22 minutes before Shelby Harrison forced a 4-4 halftime tie with her second goal of the game – this one on a free position shot – 98 seconds before halftime.
• The Blue Jays used the late second quarter goal from Harrison to ignite a three-goal run of their own that carried through nearly the entire third quarter. A Madison McPherson bouncer under pressure at the 9:03 mark of the period was followed more than four minutes later when Hurlbrink sliced through the defense off a feed from Keegan Barger to give the Blue Jays a 6-4 lead. Penn State answered with 1:27 left in the period to make it a one-goal game entering the final quarter.  As it turned out, that would be the only Nittany Lion goal over the final 39 minutes of the game.
• Nursing the one-goal lead entering the final period, the Blue Jays got an unassisted goal from Maeve Barker just 61 seconds into the final period; a point-blank save from Kathleen Garvey less than two minutes later maintained the two-goal lead for the Blue Jays. Hopkins would put the game away with three goals in the final 10 minutes – one by Bailey Cheetham and two more from Hurlbrink – to account for the 10-5 final score.
• Both defenses were dialed in and forced extended scoreless droughts.  Penn State held the Blue Jays scoreless for a stretch of 22:22 in the first half, while the Hopkins defense held the Nittany Lions off the board for 22:33 from midway through the second quarter until late in the third.
• Hurlbrink rang up the career-high four goals and posted her fifth consecutive multi-goal game. She scored six goals in the first 12 games of the season, but now has 12 goals in her last five games. Barger tied her career high with four assists.
  • Fifth-year Shelby Harrison leads the Blue Jays with a career-high 17 free position goals. She also leads the Big Ten and ranks 17th in the nation in free position goals (1.00/game).
• Harrison ranks second all-time in school history with 44 free position goals. Her 17 FPG this season are the second most in school single-season history and are three 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. 
  • 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 (28), third in points (34) and fourth in assists (6). She also ranks second on the team in shooting percentage (.467) and is second in free position goals (7).
• McPherson handed out a career-high three assists in the win over Ohio State on April 23. 
  • Fifth-years Keegan Barger, Shelby Harrison and Jeanne Kachris have played in 76 games in their career - one shy of Maggie Schneidereith's school record (77 / 2017-21).
• In addition, Barger and Kachris have started all 76 games of their career. Schneidereith also holds the record for career starts (77).
• Fifth-year Kathleen Garvey has made 39 consecutive starts in the cage, tied for second most in school Division I history. Jen McDonald (2000-03) holds the record with 51 consecutive starts in goal.
  • Hopkins and Maryland meet for the 24th time on Friday. The Terrapins have won every meeting in the series which began in 1979. Though the teams didn't meet again until 2000.
• The Blue Jays and Terps faced off three times last season - twice during the regular season and once in the Big Ten Tournament. Maryland won each of those games by just one goal, including an overtime win at Homewood Field on March 12.
• This is the fifth time that Hopkins and Maryland will meet in the postseason and fourth time the two will square off in the Big Ten Tournament. The Terps beat the Blue Jays 8-7 in the 2021 Big Ten semifinals in their last postseason matchup.
  Six Blue Jays carry active goal, assist and/or point streaks into Friday's Big Ten semifinal game versus Maryland. 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 assist in 2 straight games
 
Maeve Barker (Jr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 14 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
 
Shelby Harrison (Gr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 15 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 15 straight games
 
Abbey Hurlbrink (So. • M):
• Has at least one point in 5 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 5 straight games
 
Madison McPherson (Jr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 15 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 9 straight games
  • 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 the win over Coastal Carolina (April 10).
• Kachris handed out her first career assist at Northwestern on April 16.
  • 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' 17 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 31 helpers to her credit. 
  • 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.
• Fifth-year goalie Kathleen Garvey was named the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week on Tuesday. She helped JHU to a crucial 10-5 win at Penn State in the regular season finale. She made nine saves and picked up two ground balls, while allowing just five goals. Five of her saves came in the second half as she held the Nittany Lions to just one goal over the final 39 minutes. Hopkins outscored Penn State 7-1 during that 39-minute span.
  • The Blue Jay defense ranks second in the Big Ten and 17th in the nation with 9.59 caused turnovers per game. Hopkins is also third in the league in ground balls per game (17.94).
• 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 81 career caused turnovers. She is second in the Big Ten in caused turnovers (1.59/game). She is also 14th in JHU history with 123 career ground balls. Kachris is 19th 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 79 caused turnovers. She also holds the school single-game record with seven takeaways in a game.
• Senior Annika Meyer ranks fourth in the league in caused turnovers (1.41) and fifth in ground balls (2.29). She is ninth in program history with 69 career takeaways and is 16th with 116 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 April 6, Hopkins held Towson scoreless for 18:30, a drought that spanned the first to third quarters. 
• The five goals the Blue Jay defense allowed to the Nittany Lions are the fewest allowed in the 25-game series against Penn State and the fewest they've allowed in any game this season.  It's also the fewest since JHU beat Towson, 10-3, on April 2, 2019.
  • 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 143-72 (.665) within the friendly confines of Homewood Field and the Jays are 52-26 (.667) at home since the start of the 2014 season.
• Hopkins played 10 of its 17 regular season games at Homewood this spring. 
  • Johns Hopkins played three nationally-televised games during the regular season. Hopkins' games versus Maryland (April 2) and Ohio State (April 23) were televised on ESPNU while JHU's game at Penn State (April 28) aired on the Big Ten Network.
• In addition, Hopkins' games at Penn (Feb. 26), Navy (Mar. 10) and Stony Brook (Mar. 13) wereshown on ESPN+
• The Big Ten Network will show all three games of the tournament this weekend.
  • This marks the 47th season for Johns Hopkins, which sports an all-time record of 463-298-4 (.607) and a 245-162 (.602) 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).
  • With a win over Maryland, Hopkins would earn its first-ever trip to the Big Ten Championship game on Sunday. Opening draw is slated for 12:00 pm at SHI Stadium.