• Johns Hopkins wraps up the regular season Saturday afternoon against 14th-ranked Penn State at Homewood Field.
• Hopkins is coming off a come-from-behind overtime win over Towson on Tuesday night. The Blue Jays rallied to beat the Tigers, 13-12, in overtime.       
  • Hopkins has already secured a home game in next Saturday's Big Ten Quarterfinals. The Blue Jays will earn the three seed in the Big Ten Tournament with a win over the Nittany Lions. JHU would then take on Rutgers, the six seed, on Saturday.
• Hopkins will be the four seed with a loss to Penn State on Saturday and would face Michigan, the five seed, in the quarterfinals.
  • Senior Maeve Barker notched the 100th point of her career in the win at Michigan. The milestone came with her assist on a Bailey Cheetham goal with 2:01 left in the first quarter. 
• Barker is the 45th player in program history, and 27th since the program moved to Division I in 1999, to reach the milestone.
• She enters Saturday's game with 105 career points on 64 goals and 41 assists.
  • Johns Hopkins' stunning come-from-behind win versus 25th-ranked Rutgers is the largest come-back win in school Division I history.
• The Blue Jays trailed by six goals (11-5) with 4:04 to play in the third quarter versus the Scarlet Knights. The Blue Jays scored the final seven goals to win 12-11. 
• Four times in the Division I era (1999), Hopkins rallied from a five-goal deficit to win. The last coming on March 7, 2021 when JHU trailed host Ohio State, 6-1, with 5:17 left in the first half. The Blue Jays rallied to win 10-9.
• Hopkins did it again on Tuesday when the Blue Jays rallied to beat the Towson Tigers, 13-12, in overtime. It is the Blue Jays second straight overtime win against the Tigers.
• Towson took the lead with 3:02 to play in the second quarter and held that lead until 1:14 left in the fourth when Hopkins tied the game on Charlotte Smith's goal. It was the first time the game was tied since it was 4-4 at 6:35 in the second. The Tigers led by as many as four in the second half.
• Hopkins trailed 12-9 when Bailey Cheetham scored with 6:09 to play to spark a three-goal rally and force overtime. Ava Angello then won it 1:34 into overtime with her fifth goal of the night.
  • The Blue Jays are 228-162-2 (.584) all-time in the month of April, including 77-64 (.546) since moving to Division I in 1999.
• Hopkins has won eight of its last 10 games in the month of April.
  • 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 came 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.
  • Hopkins jumped three spots in this week's IL Women/IWLCA Poll and is ranked 22nd with 102 points. The Blue Jays also moved into the Nike/USA Lacrosse Poll and are ranked 20th this week.
• Eight of the Blue Jays' 2023 opponents are ranked in the IL Women/IWLCA poll, including four in the top-10.
• Hopkins boasts the fourth toughest schedule in the nation. The Blue Jays' opponents have a combined win percentage of 68.2.
• JHU is 19th in the NCAA's most recent RPI rating with an RPI of 0.59949.
  • Freshman Ava Angello scored the game-winning goal 1:26 into overtime to lift Johns Hopkins to a 13-12 win over Towson Tuesday night. The win snapped the Tigers' six-game win streak.
• Hopkins found itself trailing 12-9 with seven minutes to play after a Katie McCormick goal. But the Blue Jays rallied with three goals in a span of four minutes and 55 seconds to send the game to overtime. Bailey Cheetham got things going when she grabbed the rebound off the post and buried her only goal of the game at 6:09. Angello ripped home a free position shot from the left hash to make it a one-goal game two minutes later. Cheetham then found Charlotte Smith in the middle of the fan for the tying goal with 1:14 to play. Neither team could get the equalizer and they headed to overtime. Annie Marshall won the draw to open overtime and the Blue Jays worked the ball around until Campbell Case found Angello on the crease for the game-winner.
• Blaire Pearre put the Tigers on the board first, scoring off the dodge at the 9:38-mark in the first. Hopkins answered with three straight from Smith and Abbey Hurlbrink to push out to a 3-1 lead less than three minutes later. Milana Zizakovic halted the run with a one-timer in traffic to cut the Jays' lead to one with 6:08 to play in the first. Jordan Carr pushed JHU's lead right back to two when she took a pass from Cheetham and banged the ball in off the Tigers' goalie at 5:25.
• Towson came out firing with five unanswered in the second quarter in a run that spanned more than 12 minutes. Pearre book-ended the run with a pair of goals as the Tigers pushed out to a 7-4 lead with just 58.1 seconds left in the quarter. Angello got the Blue Jays back on the board 17 seconds later off a feed from Case in the left alley to make it a 7-5 game at the half.
• Lindsay Marshall and Zizakovic opened the third with back-to-back goals and Towson led 9-5 just 4:33 into the period. Megan Kielbasa converted a free position at 7:51 followed by goals from Angello and Georgie Gorelick to trim the deficit to one. The Tigers answered with a pair of goals to push their lead back to three early in the fourth. The Blue Jays came right back and made it an 11-9 game on an Angello  score. McCormick answered at the seven-minute mark, setting the stage for another Hopkins' comeback.
• Angello led the Blue Jays with the five goals, while Cheetham tied her career high with three assists and four points. Case matched her high with three helpers and Smith also had a three-point (2g, 1a) night. Maeve Barker had a game-high five ground balls and Marshall finished with six draws. JHU outdrew Towson, 17-12, but won nine of the final 12 as the Blue Jays rallied for the win.
  • Ava Angello scored three goals in her collegiate debut against Albany. 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 the 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 assists by a freshman (12) and is third in points (38) and goals (26) by a freshman.
• Angello had her 10-game point streak snapped in the win over Rutgers on April 25. It was the longest point streak by a freshman to start their career since 2015.
• Angello has notched four hat tricks this season, that's tied for fifth most by a freshman. Mary Key (2004) and Larrimore hold the record with 10 hat tricks each.
  • Senior Maeve Barker (3g, 3a) and freshman Ava Angello (6g) each turned in six-point performances in the 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.
• Barker turned in her second six-point game of the season in the win at Michigan on April 13.
  • 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 ranks second in the Big Ten and 23rd in the nation with 6.64 assists per game.
• JHU has notched 93 assists this season and is assisting on 55.0 percent of its goals. The 93 assists are tied for ninth most in school Division I history, while the 6.54 assists per game are the third best per game average.
• Senior Maeve Barker leads the Blue Jays with 17 assists and ranks eighth in the Big Ten with 1.21 assists per game. She is JHU's active career leader with 41 assists and ranks 15th in school Division I history.
• Junior Campbell Case is second with 16 assists, while senior Bailey Cheetham ranks third with 13 assists. Freshman Ava Angello has also reached double digits and boasts 12 assists.
• Angello's 12 assists are already fifth most by a freshman in program history and Cheetham is tied for seventh in school history in assists by a midfielder with 23.
  • 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 22 caused turnovers and 21 ground balls in 12 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 and ranks third in the Big Ten with 1.83 caused turnovers per game. 
• O'Brien's 22 caused turnovers are already tied for fifth most by a freshman in program history. Lacey-Leigh Hentz set the record with 54 in 2002. 
• As a team, Hopkins ranks third in the Big Ten and 16th in the nation with 9.71 caused turnovers per game. JHU had 17 caused turnovers in the win at Georgetown - that's the most by the Blue Jays since they had 18 against Furman on February 29, 2020.
• Hopkins leads the Big Ten and ranks 19th in the nation with 18.14 ground balls per game. Senior Haleigh Moore leads the Blue Jays and ranks fourth with 2.21 ground balls per game. She also ranks seventh in the league in caused turnovers (1.43).
  • Multiple Blue Jays are making their move up the Johns Hopkins Division I record book. Here's a look at where they rank:
 
Ava Angello (Fr. • A):
• Needs 1 point to rank 7th, 6 to rank 5th and 8 to rank 4th in points by a freshman (has 38)
• Needs 1 goal to rank 9th, 2 to rank 7th, 3 to rank 6th, 4 to rank 5th and 9 to rank 4th in goals by a freshman (has 26)
• Needs 7 assists to rank third in assists by a freshman (has 12)
• Needs 7 draw controls to rank 13th in draws by a freshman (has 20)
 
Maeve Barker (Sr. • A):
• Needs 5 assists to rank 14th in assists (has 41)
 
Bailey Cheetham (Sr. • M):
• Needs 2 assists to rank 6th and 5 to rank 5th in assists by a midfielder (has 23)
 
Georgie Gorelick (Jr. • M):
• Needs 2 point to rank 14th and 11 to rank 13th in points by a midfielder (has 53)
• Needs 6 goals to rank 14th in goals by a midfielder (has 41)
• Needs 1 assist to rank 17th and 3 to rank 16th in assists by a midfielder (has 12)
 
Abbey Hurlbrink (Jr. • M):
• Needs 9 points to rank 13th in points by a midfielder (has 55)
• Needs 9 goals to rank 11th in goals by a midfielder (has 47)
• Needs 5 draws to rank 16th (has 86)
 
Madison McPherson (Sr. • M):
• Needs 2 goals to rank 16th and 3 to rank 15th in goals by a midfielder (has 37)
• Needs 1 draw to rank 18th, 2 to rank 17th and 7 to rank 16th (has 84)
 
Reagan O'Brien (Fr. • D):
• Needs 6 caused turnovers to rank 4th by a freshman (has 22)
 
Maggie Tydings (Jr. • GK):
• Needs 25 saves to rank 11th (has 95)
  • Hopkins shutout Georgetown in the first and fourth quarters on March 1. 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 in 2022.
• JHU shutout Rutgers in the fourth quarter as the Blue Jays rallied for a 12-11 win. Hopkins outscored Rutgers, 6-0, in the quarter. On April 5, Hopkins held Maryland scoreless in the third quarter as the Blue Jays rallied with five straight goals. It is the fourth time this season that JHU has shutout an opponent for a quarter.
• In addition, JHU has held opponents scoreless for 15 minutes or more nine times this season, with three of those coming against Georgetown. The longest streak came on March 18, when the Blue Jays held the host Buckeyes scoreless for over 21 minutes as they built a 5-1 lead.
  • Sophomore Annie Marshall has taken the majority of the draw controls for the Blue Jays this season. Despite missing three games due to injury, she leads the team with 66 draws and ranks third in the Big Ten, and 24th in the nation, with 6.00 draws per game. Marshall matched her 2022 season total (6) in JHU's opener against Albany.
• Marshall's 66 draws are already tied for fifth most in school single-season history.
• Marshall controlled a career-high 10 draws versus Penn on February 25 - one shy of the program single-game 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 10-draw game in the win at Monmouth and again at Ohio State. She and Harrison are the only players in program history with multiple double-digit draw games.
• Junior Abbey Hurlbrink ranks second on the team with a career high 33 draws. She also ranks 17th in JHU history with 86 career draws. Freshman Ava Angello is third on the team with 20 draw controls, which ranks 14th among freshman in program history.
• As a team, Hopkins ranks third in the Big Ten with 14.00 draws per game. The Blue Jays are winning 52.0 percent of their draws. The 14.00 draws per game is the best per game average in school Division I history.  
• Hopkins won 22 of 28 draws at Monmouth on March 7. That's the second most draw control wins in a game in program history and are four shy of the program record. JHU outdrew Ohio State, 19-3, in its win in Columbus. 
• In the come-back over Towson on Tuesday night, Hopkins won nine of the final 12 draws as the Blue Jays rallied for the win.
  • Saturday's game is the 26th meeting between Johns Hopkins and Penn State in a series that dates to a 13-9 Penn State win in 2002.
• The Nittany Lions lead the all-time series, 16-9, but the Blue Jays have won the last three meetings. Eleven of the 25 meetings have been by decided by just one or two goals.
• The series began in 2002 with the inception of the American Lacrosse Conference (ALC). The ALC disbanded after the 2014 season due to the formation of the Big Ten and the series continued uninterrupted. The two became conference opponents once again when Hopkins joined the Big Ten in 2017.
  • Saturday's game versus Penn State will be the 15th for Hopkins on April 22. The Blue Jays are 9-5 all-time on this date.
• This will be Hopkins' fifth game on Apri 22 since moving to Division I in 1999. JHU has won nine of its last 10 on this date, and is 4-1 on April 22 since moving to Division I. 
 
     1976     at Dickinson__________ L, 0-13
     1977     vs. UMBC____________ L, 0-15
     1978     at Swarthmore________ L, 3-7
     1982     at Hood_____________ L, 6-7
     1987     at Mary Washington____ W, 13-10
     1988     at Hood_____________ W, 18-4
     1993     at Widener___________ W, 15-8
     1995     Swarthmore__________ W, 12-6
     1997     at Western Maryland____ W, 8-7
     2000     #14 George Mason_____ W, 14-13 (3OT)
     2005     #1 Northwestern_______ L, 3-12
     2015     Rutgers______________ W, 14-6
     2017     at Ohio State__________ W, 12-6
     2021     at #23 Michigan_______ W, 13-12 (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).
  • Freshman Ava Angello was named the Big Ten Freshman of the Week on March 22 after she totaled eight goals and 10 points in a 1-1 week for the Blue Jays. She is the first Blue Jay to earn B1G Freshman of the Week honors since Charlotte Smith in March 2022.
• Angello scored a career-high six goals and controlled one draw in the win at Monmouth. Her six goals are tied for the most by a freshman in school history. Angello finished with four points on two goals and two assists in a tough loss at eighth-ranked James Madison.
• Angello leads team with 26 goals, is tied for the team lead in points (38) and is fourth in assists (12). She also ranks second in the Big Ten in assists by a freshman (12) and is third in points (38) and goals (26).
  • ILWomen released it's Midseason All-America teams on March 31 and freshman Reagan O'Brien was named to the Honorable Mention team. She is one of just four freshmen named to the four teams.
• O'Brien leads the Blue Jays and ranks third in the Big Ten with 1.83 caused turnovers per game.
  • Senior Maeve Barker, junior Georgie Gorelick and sophomore Annie Marshall were 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.
  • Eight Blue Jays carry active goal, assist and/or point streaks into Saturday's game versus Penn State.
• Here's a look at those streaks:
 
Ava Angello (Fr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 2 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 2 straight games
 
Maeve Barker (Sr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 4 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 2 straight games
 
Jordan Carr (Sr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 3 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 3 straight games
 
Campbell Case (Jr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 9 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 3 straight games
 
Bailey Cheetham (Sr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 5 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 5 straight games
 
Georgie Gorelick (Jr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 4 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 4 straight games
 
Megan Kielbasa (Jr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 2 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 2 straight games
 
Charlotte Smith (So. • A):
• Has at least one point in 7 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 5 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 3 straight games
  • 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.
  • 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 470-308-4 (.603) and a 252-171 (.595) 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 returns to Homewood Field on Saturday, April 29 for the Big Ten Quarterfinals.