• Johns Hopkins kicks off a five-game road swing Wednesday at Georgetown. The Blue Jays will not return to the friendly confines of Homewood Field until March 23.
• The Blue Jays are coming off a 13-12 overtime loss to the Penn Quakers Saturday at Homewood Field. 
  • Hopkins is 41-23 (.641) all-time in the month of February.
• Now in their 48th season, the Blue Jays did not play a game in February until 2002. Hopkins, then in just its fourth season as a Division I program, lost to Vanderbilt, 7-4, on February 24.
  • For the first time in three decades, there is a new coach at the helm of the Blue Jays. Tim McCormack was named just the fourth coach in program history on June 7, 2022.
• McCormack comes to Homewood after a successful three-year stint at Arizona State. He led the Sun Devils to a 26-17 record, including back-to-back 10 wins seasons and a berth in the Pac-12 championship game.
  • Visiting Penn scored as time expired in the fourth quarter and then scored two minutes into overtime to beat Johns Hopkins, 13-12, Saturday afternoon.
• The Quakers scored first on a free position goal, but the Blue Jays answered with a 4-1 spurt to go up 4-2 early in the second quarter. The teams then traded goals throughout the quarter and Hopkins led 7-5 with 2:54 left in the half. Penn strung together three in a row to take an 8-7 lead at 12:37 in the third. JHU responded with a four-goal run of its own and led 11-8 early in the fourth. The Quakers put together another three-goal run and it was a tie game at the 5:16-mark. Junior Georgie Gorelick then put the Blue Jays back on top with a free position goal at 1:55. That set up the late-game comeback by the Quakers.
• Sophomore Ashley Mackin led Hopkins with a career-high five goals, while Gorelick notched her second hat trick of the season. Junior Campbell Case finished with a career-high two goals and three assists, while freshman Ava Angello also had a multi-point game (1g, 1a). Sophomore Annie Marshall totaled 10 draw controls – one shy of the school record. Junior Maggie Tydings made a career-best 16 saves – the most by a Blue Jay since Kathleen Garvey posted 17 on February 26, 2021.  
  • Georgie Gorelick's five goals and Maeve Barker's five assists versus Albany mark the first time since 2021, and the 11th time overall, that Hopkins had a player with five goals and a player with five assists in the same game.
• Mary Key is the only player in program Division I history to have at least five goals and five assists in the same game. She accomplished the feat on March 24, 2007 versus Orgeon.
  • Hopkins dropped three spots and is now ranked 19th in the IL Women/IWLCA Poll with 165 points. The Blue Jays are also receiving votes in the Nike/USA Lacrosse Poll.
• JHU has been ranked in 23 of the last 24 IL Women/IWLCA polls.
• Seven of the Blue Jays' 2023 opponents are ranked in the IL Women/IWLCA poll, including four in the top-10.
• Hopkins boasts the fifth toughest schedule in the nation. The Blue Jays' opponents have a combined win percentage of 70.4.
  • Ava Angello scored three goals in her collegiate debut Sunday. She is the first freshman to tally a hat trick in their debut since Miranda Ibello accomplished the feat on Feburary 12, 2016 versus Marquette.
• In fact, Angello is just the fifth freshman in school Division I history to score a hat trick in their collegiate debut.
• Angello ranks second in the Big Ten in goals (6) and points (8) by a freshman. She is also tied for second in assists (2) by a freshman.
  • Sophomore defender Quinlan O'Brien scored a transition goal with 12 seconds remaining in the third quarter at Loyola. She is the first Blue Jay defender to score since Jeanne Kachris scored, also in transition, against UMBC on March 29, 2022.
• O'Brien is the 12th Hopkins defender to score a goal since the program moved to Division I in 1999 (see chart at right). Six of the 12 have scored multipled goals.
• Lacey-Leigh Hentz is first among all JHU defenders with 12 career goals (2002-05). She was inducted into the JHU Hall of Fame in 2020.
  • Hopkins ranks second in the Big Ten and 17th in the nation with 7.33 assists per game.
• JHU has notched 22 assists in its first three games and is assisting on 56.4 percent of its goals.
• Senior Maeve Barker leads the Blue Jays, and ranks fourth in the Big Ten, with 1.67 assists per game. Senior Bailey Cheetham and junior Campbell Case are tied for second on the team, and ninth in the league, with 1.33 helpers per game. Cheetham's four assists so far this season are one shy of her career high as she tallied five in 2022. Case's four assists are already a career high.
  • Sophomore Annie Marshall has taken the majority of the draw controls for the Blue Jays this season. She has tallied 21 draws in three games, more than she had all of last season (6). In fact, she matched her 2022 season total in JHU's opener against Albany.
• Marshall controlled a career-high 10 draws versus Penn on Saturday - one shy of the program single-season record. She is only the fourth player in program history to register double-digit draws in a game, joining Shelby Harrison, Dene' DiMartino and Ellie McNulty.
• Marshall leads the Big Ten and ranks 15th in the nation with 7.00 draws per game. 
  • Freshman Reagan O'Brien is making her mark early on the Blue Jay defense. She notched three caused turnovers and three ground balls in her collegiate debut versus Albany and has totaled 11 caused turnovers in her first three games. 
• O'Brien had six caused turnovers at Loyola, that's one shy of the school single-game record. The six takeaways are also tied for the most by a freshman in a game.
• O'Brien leads Hopkins, ranks second in the Big Ten and second in the nation with 3.67 caused turnovers per game. She also ranks third in the league with 2.67 ground balls per game.
• As a team, Hopkins ranks third in the Big Ten and 25th in the nation with 10.33 caused turnovers per game.
  • Johns Hopkins and Georgetown meet for the 27th time in a series that dates to a 9-4 Blue Jay win on April 15, 1977. 
• JHU leads the all-time series, 14-12, and has won three straight and six of the last seven. Hopkins beat Georgetown, 16-10, when the two met last March in Baltimore.
• The Blue Jays and Hoyas met eight times between 1977 and 1990, with Hopkins winning five of those meetings. The series resumed in 2005 - Ricky Fried's first season as head coach at Georgetown. Fried had spent nine seasons (1994-2002) on former Blue Jay head coach Janine Tucker's staff.
  • Saturday's game is the 42nd game for Johns Hopkins against a current member of the Big East.
• Hopkins is 29-12 all-time against members of the Big East \, with 26 of those games coming against Georgetown.
• JHU has never played Butler or Xavier.
 
     UConn__________________ 1-0
     Denver__________________ 3-0
     Georgetown____________ 14-12
     Marquette_______________ 5-0
     Villanova________________ 6-0
  • Wednesday's game at Georgetown will be just the fifth for Hopkins on March 1. The Blue Jays have won their last two contests on this date
 
     2002      at #6 North Carolina_____ L, 5-15
     2008      vs. #7 Princeton_________ L, 5-7
     2014      vs. American___________ W, 17-5
     2017      vs. Georgetown_________ W, 11-10 (OT) 
  • Head coach Tim McCormack announced on June 24 that Nicole Graziano and Dorrien Van Dyke would join his staff at Homewood.
• Van Dyke and Graziano spent the last three seasons on McCormack's staff at Arizona State. During their time in Tempe, the Sun Devils went 26-17 with back-to-back 10-win seasons in 2021 and 2022. Arizona State also made its first-ever appearance in the Pac-12 Championship game in 2022. Van Dyke will coach the Blue Jay defense and Graziano will coach the offense.
• Graziano helped turn around the Arizona State offense. In the year prior her arrival in Tempe, the Sun Devils ranked 96th in the nation with 9.89 goals per game. In her first season, a COVID-shortened 2020 season, ASU ranked 12th in the nation with 16.38 goals per game. Arizona State led the Pac-12 in scoring in 2020 and 2021 (16.44 goals per game) and ranked third in 2022 (13.21).
• Van Dyke's Arizona State defense led the Pac-12 in ground balls and ranked fourth in scoring defense in 2021 (12.62) and 2022 (12.79). The squad also ranked third in caused turnovers in 2020 (7.13) and then second in 2021 (8.50) and 2022 (7.11).
• In addition to her work with the defense, Van Dyke made immediate improvements in the Sun Devil draw control unit. Arizona State ranked fourth in the Pac-12 prior to her arrival in Tempe. ASU ranked third (14.25) in 2020, second in 2021 (16.68) and then led the league (15.95) this past season. The Sun Devils also ranked in the top-20 in the nation in draws in each of the last two seasons.
  • Kathleen Garvey returned to her alma mater in August to join head coach Tim McCormack's staff as the graduate manager. She will assist with the Blue Jay goalies.
• Garvey returns to Homewood after a standout career in the cage for the Blue Jays. She finished her career ranked fourth in program history with 352 saves and seventh in goals against average (11.10) and save percentage (.433).
• A three-year starter, Garvey posted 15 double-digit save performances in 41 starts. She earned Big Ten Goaltender of the Year honors and Second Team All-Mid-Atlantic honors in 2021 after leading the league in saves (129) and ranking second in save percentage (.436).
  • The Blue Jays' 2023 roster includes seven seniors, 11 juniors, eight sophomores and seven freshmen.
• The 33-woman roster features players from 10 states and one Canadian province (Ontario). By state, the Blue Jays hail from Maryland (13), New York (5), Massachusetts (4), California (2), Connecticut (2), New Jersey (2), Pennsylvania (1), Florida (1), Oregon (1) and Virginia (1). 
  • Head coach Tim McCormack welcomed seven freshmen to the Blue Jays this season. Joining Hopkins are Ava Angello, Morgan Giradina, Hannah Johnson, Grace Karstetter, Jillian McNaughton, Reagan O'Brien and Emily Peek.
  • Seniors Maeve Barker and Bailey Cheetham and junior Jordan Carr have been selected as captains for the 2023 season.
• Barker returns after starting 18 games on attack a year ago and carries a 16-game point-scoring streak into the 2023 season. She is the Blue Jays' active leader in goals (43), assists (24) and points (67).
• Cheetham, a two-way middie, returns after posting career highs in every statistical category last season. She finished with 10 goals and 15 points in 18 games. Cheetham also tallied 23 ground balls, eight caused turnovers and five draws.
• Carr had a breakout season as a two-way middie in 2022. After seeing action in just two games as a freshman, she played in 18 games and started 16 a year ago. She totaled 16 points (12g, 4a), 23 ground balls, 13 caused turnovers and six draws. Carr scored on 75 percent of her shots on goal.
  • Senior Maeve Barker, junior Georgie Gorelick and sophomore Annie Marshall have been named to the 2023 Big Ten Players to Watch list. Three players from each of the Big Ten's six teams were named as players to watch.
• Barker returns after starting 18 games on attack. She ranked second on the team with 12 assists and tied for third with 23 goals. She posted 12 multi-point games and finished the season on a 16-game point streak.
• Gorelick saw action in 17 games in the midfield and finished fifth on the team in goals (20) and assists (5). She was also tied for second with seven free position goals.
• Marshall played 18 games in her freshman campaign as a center draw specialist. She totaled six ground balls, six draw controls and three caused turnovers.
  • Three Blue Jays carry active goal, assist and/or point streaks into Wednesday's game at Georgetown.
• Senior Maeve Barker had her 18-game point streak snapped in Saturday's loss to Penn. That streak was tied for 20th in program history.
• Here's a look at those streaks:
 
Ava Angello (Fr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 3 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 3 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 2 straight games
 
Georgie Gorelick (Jr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 4 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 4 straight games
 
Ashley Mackin (So. • M):
• Has at least one point in 3 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 2 straight games
  • Johns Hopkins was picked to finish fifth in the 2023 Big Ten Women's Lacrosse Preseason Poll of the league's seven head coaches.
• Maryland is the preseason favorite to win the Big Ten, followed by Northwestern, Rutgers, Michigan, Hopkins, Ohio State and Penn State.
• All seven teams will qualify for the 2023 Big Ten Women's Lacrosse Tournament, with the top team in the final league standings earning a bye into the semifinals. The teams that finish second, third and fourth will host quarterfinal games on Saturday, April 29. Ohio State will host the semifinals (May 4) and finals (May 6).
  • Athletics at Johns Hopkins is a family affair and this year's team is no different.
• Freshman Reagan O'Brien joins her sister, sophomore Quinlan O'Brien, at Homewood this spring. The O'Briens are the 13th pair of sisters to don the Hopkins Blue & Black.
• Freshman Morgan Giardina is following in the footsteps of her father, Scott, who played lacrosse at Johns Hopkins and is a 1992 graduate.
• In addition, junior Liza Regan played alongside her cousin, Caroline Somerville, for two seasons (2021, 2022) at Homewood.
  • Hopkins will play four nationally televised games this season. JHU willl take on Penn (Feb. 25), Rutgers (Apr. 1) and Maryland (Apr. 5) on ESPNU. In addition, Hopkins' game at Michigan (Apr. 13) will be shown on the Big Ten Network. 
  • This marks the 48th season for Johns Hopkins, which sports an all-time record of 464-303-4 (.605) and a 246-166 (.597) record as a Division I program.
• The Blue Jays have posted 36 winning seasons, including 21 straight from 1987 to 2007. Hopkins has also made 19 NCAA Tournament appearances, including 10 in the Division I Tournament (2004, 2005, 2007, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022).
  • Hopkins produced a school-record and Big Ten-best 33 Academic All-Big Ten selections for the 2022 season. Fifteen Blue Jays were named Big Ten Distinguished Scholars.
• In addition, JHU set a school record as 14 student-athletes were named to the IWLCA Academic Honor Roll in late July.
• The Blue Jays posted an impressive 3.57 GPA for the Spring semester, which included five players with a perfect 4.00 GPA.
  • Hopkins is right back at it on Saturday as the Blue Jays travel to the City of Brotherly Love to take on Drexel. Opening draw at Vidas Field is slated for 11:00 am.