• Johns Hopkins is back on the road Saturday as the Blue Jays visit the Old Dominion State to take on eighth-ranked James Madison.
• Saturday's game marks the fourth of five straight road games for the Blue Jays. It is also the third straight for JHU against a member of the CAA.
• Hopkins is coming off a 20-6 win at Monmouth on Tuesday in the first-ever meeting between the two.   
  • The Blue Jays are 165-68-2 (.706) all-time in the month of March, including 2-1 under first-year head coach Tim McCormack.
• Since moving to Division I in 1999, Johns Hopkins is 116-52 (.690) in the month of March.
  • Saturday's game is the fourth of five consecutive road games for Johns Hopkins.
• This stretch of five straight road games is the longest for the Blue Jays since April 2021 when they played five straight road games. In fact, including two neutral site games following that five-game road swing, JHU played seven straight away from Homewood Field to end the 2021 season.
• This is just the fifth road trip of five games (or more) for the Blue Jays in the 48-year history of the program.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Freshman Ava Angello scored six goals to lead Johns Hopkins to a 20-6 win at Monmouth Tuesday afternoon.
• Seniors Maeve Barker and Madison McPherson scored back-to-back goals just 44 seconds apart to stake Hopkins to an early 2-0 lead. Monmouth answered with a Caroline Brennan goal to cut the lead in half with 10:19 to play in the first. Angello scored the first of her six goals just 21 seconds later to spark a five-goal Blue Jay run that spanned 10 minutes and 29 seconds and saw JHU go up 7-1 lead.
• The Hawks sandwiched a pair of goals around a bouncer from junior Campbell Case and it was 8-3 Blue Jays with 4:33 to play in the second. Angello then completed her first-half hat trick followed by back-to-back goals from sophomore Ashley Mackin and Hopkins led 11-3. Monmouth would add one more before the half and it was it was 11-4 at the break. The Blue Jays would outscore the Hawks, 9-2, in the second half.
• In all 11 different Blue Jays scored and 13 had at least one point. In addition to Angello's six goals, Barker  finished with a career-best six points (3g, 3a) while Case and Mackin each had two-goal, two-assist performances. Sophomore Annie Marshall controlled a game-high 10 draws, matching her career-high and one shy of the program record.
  • Hopkins dropped four spots and is now ranked 23rd in the IL Women/IWLCA Poll with 66 points.
• JHU has been ranked in 24 of the last 25 IL Women/IWLCA polls.
• Eight 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 68.8.
  • Senior Maeve Barker (3g, 3a) and freshman Ava Angello (6g) each turned in six-point performances in Tuesday's win at Monmouth. It is the first time that two Blue Jays had at least six points in a game since 2021 when Aurora Cordingley (6g, 1a)  and Mackenzie Heldberg (1g, 6a) had seven points each against Rutgers.
• Since JHU moved to Division I in 1999, there have been 15 games in which two Blue Jays have had six-point performances. In fact, in two of those games (Denver 2012, Furman 2019), Hopkins had three players with at least six points.
  • 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 erupted for six goals in Tuesday's win at Monmouth. Her six goals are tied for the most by a Hopkins' freshman since the program moved to Division I in 1999. She joins Meghan Burnett (2000) and Jamie Larrimore (1999) as the only Blue Jay freshman with six goals in a game.
• Angello ranks second in the Big Ten in points (17) and goals (14) by a freshman. She is also tied for third in assists (3).
• In addition, freshman defender Reagan O'Brien is tied for sixth in the Big Ten in assists by a freshman (2).
  • 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 16th in the nation with 7.17 assists per game.
• JHU has notched 43 assists through six games and is assisting on 51.8 percent of its goals.
• Senior Maeve Barker leads the Blue Jays, and ranks third in the Big Ten, with 1.67 assists per game. Barker is JHU's active career leader with 34 assists and needs just one to move into the top-20 in school Division I history.
• Junior Campbell Case is second on the team, and seventh in the conference, with 1.17 assists per game. Her seven assists this season are already a career-high. Senior Bailey Cheetham ranks third on the team and ninth in the B1G with 1.00 helpers per game. Her six assists this season are a career high and she is tied for 15th in school history in assists by a midfielder with 15.
  • Hopkins shutout Georgetown in the first and fourth quarters 10 days ago. It was the first time JHU had shut out an opponent for a quarter since April 28, 2022. On that date, Hopkins held host Penn State scoreless in the fourth quarter. It is also the first time the Blue Jays have held an opponent scoreless for two quarters since women's lacrosse moved to quarters for the 2022 season.
• In addition, JHU has held opponents scoreless for 15 minutes or more five times this season, with three of those coming against Georgetown.
  • 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 14 caused turnovers in her first four 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 fifth in the nation with 2.83 caused turnovers per game. She also ranks third in the league with 2.33 ground balls per game.
• O'Brien's 17 caused turnovers are already tied for ninth most by a freshman in program history. Lacey-Leigh Hentz set the record with 54 in 2002. 
• As a team, Hopkins is second in the Big Ten and 15th in the nation with 10.67 caused turnovers per game. JHU had 17 caused turnovers in last Wednesday's game at Georgetown. That's the most by the Blue Jays since they had 18 against Furman on February 29, 2020.
  • Sophomore Annie Marshall has taken the majority of the draw controls for the Blue Jays this season. She has tallied 36 draws so far this season and ranks third in the Big Ten with 6.00 draws per game. Marshall matched her 2022 season total (6) in JHU's opener against Albany.
• Marshall controlled a career-high 10 draws versus Penn on February 25 - 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 turned in her second double-digit draw game in the win at Monmouth on Tuesday with 10. She and Harrison are the only players in program history with multiple double-digit draw games.
• As a team, Hopkins ranks third in the Big Ten, and 24th in the nation, with 15.33 draws per game. The Blue Jays win 56.1 percent of the draws. 
• Hopkins won 22 of 28 draws Tuesday at Monmouth. The 22 draws are the second most in a game in program history and are four shy of the program record.
  • Saturday's game is just the third all-time meeting between Johns Hopkins and James Madison. This is also the first regular-season meeting between the two. The Dukes have won each of the two previous meetings with the Blue Jays.
•The two last met in the 2021 NCAA First Round in Chapel Hill, NC.
  • Saturday's game is the 59th game for Johns Hopkins against a current member of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA).
• Hopkins is 37-21 all-time against members of the CAA, with 26 of those games coming against Towson.
• The only member of the CAA that JHU has never played is Elon. In fact, Hopkins will face four CAA schools this season - Drexel, Monmouth, Stony Brook and Towson.
 
     Delaware________________ 1-1
     Drexel___________________ 7-1
     Hofstra__________________ 7-2
     Monmouth_______________ 1-0
     Stony Brook______________ 3-6
     Towson________________ 16-10
     William & Mary___________ 2-1
  • 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).
  • A couple of Blue Jays are making their move up the Johns Hopkins Division I record book. Here's a look at where they rank:
 
Bailey Cheetham (Sr. • M):
• Needs 1 assist to rank 13th and 3 to rank 11th in assists by a midfielder (has 15)
 
Georgie Gorelick (Jr. • M):
• Needs 1 goal to rank 17th and 4 to rank 17th in goals by a midfielder (has 35)
 
Abbey Hurlbrink (Jr. • M):
• Needs 1 point to rank 17th and 3 to rank 15th in points by a midfielder (has 46)
• Needs 6 goals to rank 12th in goals by a midfielder (has 41)
 
Madison McPherson (Sr. • M):
• Needs 2 points to rank 18th and 3 to rank 17th in points by a midfielder (has 44)
• Needs 3 goals to rank 16th in goals by a midfielder (has 36)
• Needs 7 draws to rank 17th (has 78)
 
Reagan O'Brien (Fr. • D):
• Needs 3 caused turnovers to rank 6th and 5 to rank 5th (among freshman) (has 17)
 
Maggie Tydings (Jr. • GK):
• Needs 73 saves to rank 11th (has 47)
  • Senior Maeve Barker needs 11 points to reach the 100-point mark for her career. She would be the 45th player in program history, and 27th since the program moved to Division I in 1999, to reach the milestone.
  • Saturday's game at James Madison will be the eighth for Hopkins on March 11. The Blue Jays have won their last three contests on March 11. Seven of Hopkins' eight games on this date have come since the program moved to Division I in 1999.
 
     1983      at Notre Dame (MD)________ W, 13-12 (OT)
     2001      Lehigh___________________ W, 18-2
     2003      Penn____________________ W, 8-4
     2005      at Ohio State______________ L, 9-12
     2007      at Ohio State______________ W, 15-14
     2016      Boston University__________ W, 13-12
     2017      at Hofstra________________ W, 12-4
  • 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.
  • 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 carried a 16-game point-scoring streak into the 2023 season. She is the Blue Jays' active leader in goals (55), assists (34) and points (89).
• Cheetham, a two-way middie, returns after posting career highs in every statistical category last season. She finished with 10 goals and 15 points, to go with 23 ground balls, eight caused turnovers and five draws in 18 games. For her career, Cheetham has 29 points (14g, 15), 45 ground balls, 19 draws and 19 caused turnovers.
• 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. She now has 19 goals and 22 points to go with 25 ground balls, nine draws and 16 caused turnovers in 26 career games. 
  • 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.
  • Eight Blue Jays carry active goal, assist and/or point streaks into Saturday's game at James Madison.
• Here's a look at those streaks:
 
Ava Angello (Fr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 6 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 6 straight games
 
Maeve Barker (Sr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 3 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 3 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 3 straight games
 
Jordan Carr (Jr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 3 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 3 straight games
 
Bailey Cheetham (Sr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 3 straight games
 
Georgie Gorelick (Jr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 7 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 7 straight games
 
Ashley Mackin (So. • A):
• Has at least one point in 2 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 2 straight games
 
Annie Marshall (So. • A):
• Has at least one point in 4 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 2 straight games
 
Madison McPherson (Sr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 3 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 3 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).
  • 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 466-304-4 (.604) and a 248-167 (.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 wraps up its five-game road swing and opens Big Ten play next Saturday versus Ohio State in the Buckeye State. Opening draw at Ohio State Lacrosse Stadium is scheduled for 1:00 pm.