• Johns Hopkins takes on second-seeded and third-ranked Syracuse in the NCAA Second Round on Sunday afternoon.
• Hopkins is coming off a 19-8 win over 16th-ranked UMass in first round Friday afternoon at Syracuse.
  • Hopkins earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament for the fifth straight season (not including the cancelled 2020 season).
• This is Tim McCormack's first NCAA Tournament appearance as a head coach. He is in his first season with the Blue Jays and fourth season overall as a head coach. McCormack went to the NCAAs in each of his six seasons as an assistant at Northwestern and played in the tournament as a senior at UMass in 2012. 
• This is Hopkins' 11th NCAA Tournament appearance since moving to Division I in 1999 and 20th overall. JHU made its first trip to the NCAAs as a DI team in 2004.
• The five straight tournament bids are the most in program history. JHU went to the NCAA Division III Tournament five times in six seasons (1993-1998).
• The Blue Jays are 3-10 in the NCAA Division I Tournament and 9-19 all-time. This is JHU's first win in the NCAA Tournament since 2016.
• Hopkins is traveling to New York for an NCAA Tournament game for the first time since 2007 and just the second time ever. JHU beat Hofstra, 12-8, in the first round of the 2007 tournament.
  • Hopkins has played 10 teams that earned spots in the NCAA Tournament, including four in the Big Ten. Eight of those 10 teams are still alive after the first round games on Friday.
• Five of the 10 earned automatic bids (Northwestern, Stony Brook, Loyola, Albany, Penn). In addition, JHU faced three teams that are seeded in the field (Northwestern, James Madison, Loyola).
• The Blue Jays rank sixth in the nation in strength of schedule (.668) and 18th in RPI (.60286).
  • Senior Maeve Barker and sophomore Annie Marshall were named Second Team IWLCA All-Mid-Atlantic on Thursday afternoon.
• Hopkins has now produced 105 IWLCA All-Region selections, including 58 Division I selections. At least one Blue Jay has earned IWLCA All-Mid-Atlantic honors since 2003. In fact, the Blue Jays have had at least two all-region selections 17 times in the last 19 seasons (no post-season honors in 2020).
• Barker and Marshall earn IWLCA All-Region honors for the first time in their careers. Barker has posted career highs in every statistical category this season. She leads the team with 20 assists, ranks second in points (44) and third in goals (24).
• Marshall has made her mark as a draw specialist this season. She has taken the majority of the draws for the Blue Jays and ranks second in the Big Ten and 20th in the nation with 6.21 draws per game. Despite missing three games she has posted an impressive 87 draws, the third most in school single-season history.
  • Head coach Tim McCormack joins Kelly Amonte Hiller's staff as an assistant coach of the 2024 US Women's U20 National Team it was announced this week.
• The US team will compete in the 2024 World Lacrosse Women's U20 Championship in Hong Kong, China next summer.
• The US women won five of the seven world championships conducted by World Lacrosse from 1995 to 2019. World Lacrosse adjusted the age groupings for this championship up to the U20 age level.
  • Head coach Tim McCormack coached against his alma mater on Friday when Hopkins beat UMass in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
• McCormack was a three-year starter in goal, and two-time captain, for the Minutemen. As a senior, he led UMass to a 15-1 record and the number one national ranking for the first time in program history. McCormack posted an impressive 7.09 goals against average and a .606 save percentage en route to All-CAA and USILA All-America honors. He ranks eighth in program history with 475 career saves and boasted an 8.44 goals against average and .559 save percentage in 45 career starters.
• There was also be a familiar face on the UMass sideline in assistant coach Aurora Cordingley, who played for Hopkins from 2018-21. She ranks in the top-10 in school Division I history in career points (9th / 182), goals (10th / 116) and assists (6th / 66). She earned First Team All-Big Ten and Third Team IWLCA All-America honors as a senior.
  • Hopkins boasts a balanced attack in 2023 as five players have notched at least 30 points this season. The last time the Blue Jays had five players with 30 or more points was in 2019.
• In all, 19 players have notched at least one point this season, including 16 that have scored at least one goal.
• Freshman Ava Angello leads the way with 51 points and 38 goals. Senior Maeve Barker (24g, 20a) and juior Campbell Case (23g, 19a) have also eclipsed the 40-point mark.
• Junior Georgie Gorelick ranks second on the team with 26 goals to go with six assists for 32 points. Senior Bailey Cheetham is nearly equal with 15 goals and 17 helpers (32 points).
  • Hopkins dropped one spot in this week's IL Women/IWLCA Poll and is ranked 19th with 107 points. The Blue Jays are also ranked 20th in the Nike/USA Lacrosse Poll.
• Ten of the Blue Jays' 2023 opponents are ranked in the IL Women/IWLCA poll, including four in the top-10.
• Hopkins boasts the sixth toughest schedule in the nation. The Blue Jays' opponents have a combined win percentage of 66.8.
• JHU is 18th in the NCAA's most recent RPI rating with an RPI of 0.60286.
  • Johns Hopkins' stunning come-from-behind win versus 25th-ranked Rutgers on April 1 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 and then 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 April 18 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.
• JHU again came from behind the win over 14th-ranked Penn State on April 22. The Blue Jays trailed 4-1 with 5:58 to play in the first quarter. A Cheetham goal sparked a four-goal run as JHU took the lead with 39 seconds left in the quarter.
• Penn State tied the game twice in the ensuing four minutes, but Abbey Hurlbrink scored to ignite a five-goal run that spanned six minutes and the Blue Jays never looked back in the 16-12 win.
• Hopkins nearly pulled off another comeback win in the Big Ten Quarterfinals versus Rutgers. The Blue Jays trailed 15-10 with 7:27 to play and rallied with four unanswered to pull within one with 39.1 ticks on the clock. JHU was unable to find the equalizer however and fell just short in its bid for a spot in the semifinals. 
  • 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.
  • Johns Hopkins rode a 7-1 first quarter to a 19-8 win over 16th-ranked UMass in the first round of the NCAA Tournament Friday afternoon.
• With the game tied at one, Hopkins scored five goals in the final 5:04 of the first to take a 7-1 lead into the second. Campbell Case sparked the run when she scored from a tough angle off a restart. Ava Angello then scored back-to-back goals just 45 seconds apart, followed by a transition goal from Ashley Mackin. Campbell blew one home off a flip pass from Angello and Mackin put the punctuation on the run when she grabbed a ball of the post and deposited it with 29.4 ticks on the clock.
• Charlotte Clavelli scored just 35 seconds into the second to get UMass back on the board, but Hopkins answered with a pair of free position goals from Angello and Georgie Gorelick and it was 9-2 with 9:55 left in the half.
• The Minutewomen answered with a 3-1 spurt to pull within five just 1:10 into third quarter. However, the Blue Jays responded with a 5-1 run that spanned nearly 13 minutes as they stormed out to a 15-6 lead after three. Angello got things going when she beat Catrina Tobin on a back-hand in traffic at 13:07. Marielle McAteer then scored on the run after a failed UMass clear. Case used a couple of screens to get free and scored on a sidearm shot in the middle of the fan to put Hopkins up 13-6. Jordan Carr then picked the bottom left corner from in-tight and Maeve Barker capped the spurt when she ripped a right-handed shot from eight yards out.
• Charlotte Wilmoth and Mackin traded a pair of scores over an eight-minute span of the fourth quarter and Hopkins led 17-8 with 4:05 to go. Abbey Hurlbrink scored on a free position and Carly Steinlauf wrapped up the scoring with a shot from goal line extended in the final minute.
• Mackin led the Blue Jays with a game-high six points on four goals and two assists. Case (4g, 1a) and Angello (4g, 1a) also had five-point games. Barker (1g, 2a), Hurlbrink (1g, 2a) and Bailey Cheetham (1g, 1a) added multi-point games as 11 Blue Jays had at least one point. Annie Marshall and Hurlbrink had six draws each, as Hopkins won the draw battle, 17-13.
  • Ashley Mackin returned with a bang Friday in the win over UMass. The sophomore had missed the last five games with an injury. Her six points (4g, 2a) are tied for the second most in an NCAA Tournament game in JHU history.
• Ava Angello finished with four goals and five points versus the Minutewomen, the most by a Hopkins' freshman in a tournament game.
• Annie Marshall and Abbey Hurlbrink tied the program record for draws in a tournament game with six apiece.
• As a team, Hopkins also had program-bests for an NCAA Tournament game with 19 goals, 10 assists, 29 points and 17 draws.
  • 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 freshmen with six goals in a game.
• Angello ranks second in the Big Ten in points (51) and assists by a freshman (13) and is also tied for second in goals (38) by a freshman.
• In Johns Hopkins history, Angello ranks third in points, fourth in goals and fifth in assists by a freshman. She also ranks 14th in draws (24) by a freshman.
• Angello opened her career with a 10-game point scoring streak - the the longest point streak by a freshman to start their career since 2015.
• Angello has notched seven hat tricks this season, that's tied for fourth most by a freshman in program history. Mary Key (2004) and Larrimore hold the record with 10 hat tricks each.
• Angello is the first freshman to lead the Blue Jays in points since 2009. In fact, the top two scorers on the 2009 squad were freshmen - Candace Rossi (33 points) and Colleen McCaffrey (32 points). She has tallied an impressive 23 points (21g, 2a) in the last five games.
  • Four different players have notched at least six points in a game this season - senior Maeve Barker, junior Abbey Hurlbrink, sophomore Ashley Mackin and freshman Ava Angello. This is the first time since 2019 that at least four players have done so.
• Barker (3g, 3a) and Angello (6g) each turned in six-point performances in the win at Monmouth on March 7. 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.
• Hurlbink turned in back-to-back six-point outings versus Penn State (5g, 1a) and Rutgers (1g, 5a). She's the first player to do so since Cordingley in 2020. In addition, Hurlbrink is only the 11th player in school Division I history with back-to-back six-point games.
• After missing five games due to an injury, Mackin returned on Friday and led the Blue Jays with a game-high six points (4g, 2a) in the win over the Minutewomen.
  • Georgie Gorelick's five goals and Maeve Barker's five assists versus Albany (February 12) was 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.
• Abbey Hurlbrink and Ava Angello turned in the second five-goal, five-assist game on the season in the loss to Rutgers in the Big Ten Quarterfinals. Hurlbrink handed out five assists while Angello scored five goals.
• This is only the second time that Hopkins has had two five-goal, five-assist performances in the same season. The last was in 2013 and happened in back-to-back games.
• 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.
  • 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 7 points to rank 2nd in points by a freshman (has 51)
• Needs 3 goals to rank 3rd and 10 to rank 2nd in goals by a freshman (has 38)
• Needs 6 assists to rank third in assists by a freshman (has 13)
• Needs 3 draw controls to rank 13th in draws by a freshman (has 24)
 
Maeve Barker (Sr. • A):
• Needs 2 assists to rank 14th and 5 to rank 13th in assists (has 44)
 
Bailey Cheetham (Sr. • M):
• Needs 2 assists to rank 5th and 5 to rank 4th in assists by a midfielder (has 26)
 
Georgie Gorelick (Jr. • M):
• Needs 6 points to rank 14th in points by a midfielder (has 58)
• Needs 1 goal to rank 13th and 8 to rank 12th in goals by a midfielder (has 46)
• Needs 1 assist to rank 17th and 3 to rank 16th in assists by a midfielder (has 12)
 
Abbey Hurlbrink (Jr. • M):
• Needs 3 points to rank 11th and 14 to rank 10th in points by a midfielder (has 70)
• Needs 2 goals to rank 11th and 10 to rank 10th in goals by a midfielder (has 54)
• Needs 2 assists to rank 12th, 3 to rank 11th and 4 to rank 10th in assists by a midfielder (has 16)
• Needs 19 draws to rank 9th (has 103)
 
Annie Marshall (So. • A):
• Needs 1 to rank 13th, 2 to rank 12th and 9 to rank 11th (has 93)
 
Madison McPherson (Sr. • M):
• Needs 2 goals to rank 16th and 3 to rank 15th in goals by a midfielder (has 37)
• Needs 2 draws to rank 18th and 4 to rank 17th (has 85)
 
Reagan O'Brien (Fr. • D):
• Needs 3 caused turnovers to rank 4th by a freshman (has 25)
 
Maggie Tydings (Jr. • GK):
• Needs 2 saves to rank 11th and 28 to rank 10th (has 118)
  • 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 Sunday's game with 111 career points on 67 goals and 44 assists.
  • Hopkins ranks second in the Big Ten and 20th in the nation with 6.88 assists per game.
• JHU has notched 117 assists this season and is assisting on 53.6 percent of its goals. The 117 assists are the second most in school Division I history, while the 6.88 assists per game are the third best per game average.
• Hopkins tallied 10 assists in the win over UMass on Friday, the most by the Blue Jays in an NCAA Tournament game. The previous mark was eight  when JHU beat host Hofstra, 12-7, in the first round of the 2007 tournament.
• Senior Maeve Barker leads the team with 20 assists and is JHU's active career leader with 44 assists. She ranks 15th in school Division I history in career assists. Junior Campbell Case is second with 19 assists, while senior Bailey Cheetham ranks third with 17 assists.
• Freshman Ava Angello and junior Abbey Hurlbrink have also reached double digits. Angello is fourth with 13 assists and Hurlbrink is fifth with 11. Angello's 13 assists are fifth most by a freshman in program history and Cheetham is sixth in school history in assists by a midfielder with 26.
  • 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 87 draws and ranks second in the Big Ten, and 20th in the nation, with 6.21 draws per game. Marshall matched her 2022 season total (6) in JHU's opener against Albany.
• Marshall's 87 draws are the third most in school single-season history. She needs four draws to move into a tie for second with Shelby Harrison (2018). Dene' DiMartino set the single season record in 2016 with 103 draw controls.
• 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 Harrison, 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 50 draws. She is also 10th in JHU history with 103 career draws. Freshman Ava Angello is third on the team with 24 draw controls, which ranks 14th among freshman in program history.
• As a team, Hopkins ranks third in the Big Ten with 14.76 draws per game. The Blue Jays are winning 53.3 percent of their draws. The 14.76 draws per game is the best per game average in school Division I history. Hopkins' 251 draw controls this season are tied for third most in school 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. The Blue Jays won 22 of 32 draws against Penn State (April 22). JHU outdrew Ohio State, 19-3, in its win in Columbus on March 18. In the come-back over Towson on April 18, Hopkins won nine of the final 12 draws as the Blue Jays rallied for the win.
  • 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 on April 1. 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.
• Hopkins held UMass well below its season average in Friday's win. Entering the tournament, the Minutewomen ranked sixth in the nation in scoring offense with 15.89 goals per game. The Blue Jays held them to just eight - the fewest they've had in a game since a 16-6 loss to Boston College on February 15. In fact, its just the fifth time in the last five seasons they've been held to single-digit goals in a game.
  • Freshman Reagan O'Brien has made her mark on the Blue Jay defense. She notched three caused turnovers and three ground balls in her collegiate debut versus Albany (February 12) and has totaled 25 caused turnovers and 23 ground balls in 15 games. 
• O'Brien had six caused turnovers at Loyola (February 18), 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 fourth in the Big Ten with 1.67 caused turnovers per game. 
• O'Brien's 25 caused turnovers are fifth most by a freshman in program history. Lacey-Leigh Hentz set the record with 54 in 2002. 
• As a team, Hopkins ranks second in the Big Ten and 14th in the nation with 9.35 caused turnovers per game. JHU had 17 caused turnovers in the win at Georgetown (March 1) - 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 14th in the nation with 18.41 ground balls per game. Senior Haleigh Moore leads the Blue Jays and ranks fourth with 2.35 ground balls per game. She also ranks eighth in the league in caused turnovers (1.29). Senior Madison McPherson is 10th in the league with 1.24 caused turnovers per game. 
  • Sunday's game is the first-ever meeting between Johns Hopkins and Syracuse.
  • Saturday's game is the 28th game for Johns Hopkins against a current member of the ACC.
• Hopkins is 9-18 all-time against members of the ACC, with 22 of those games coming against Duke (9), North Carolina (7) and Virginia (6).
• The members of the ACC that JHU has never played are Clemson, Louisville, Pitt and Virginia Tech.
 
     Boston College_____________ 1-1
     Duke____________________ 1-8
     North Carolina_____________ 1-6
     Notre Dame_______________ 3-0
     Virginia__________________ 3-3
  • Sunday's game versus Syracuse will be just the fifth for Hopkins on May 14. This date has not been kind to the Blue Jays as they are just 1-3 on May 14.
 
     1988     at Trenton State_______ L, 7-13
     1994     Denison_____________ W, 13-9
     2000     at Cornell____________ L, 4-16
     2021     vs. James Madison_____ L, 6-9
     • Eight Blue Jays carry active goal, assist and/or point streaks into Sunday's game at Syracuse.
• Here's a look at those streaks:
 
Ava Angello (Fr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 5 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 5 straight games
 
Maeve Barker (Sr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 7 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 2 straight games
 
Jordan Carr (Sr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 6 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 2 straight games
 
Campbell Case (Jr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 12 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 3 straight games
 
Bailey Cheetham (Sr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 8 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 2 straight games
 
Georgie Gorelick (Jr. • M):
• Has at least one point in 7 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 7 straight games
 
Abbey Hurlbrink (Jr. • A):
• Has at least one point in 4 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 4 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 3 straight games
 
Ashley Mackin (So. • A):
• Has at least one point in 2 straight games
• Has at least one goal in 2 straight games
• Has at least one assist in 2 straight games
  • 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).
  • Senior Maeve Barker earned Second Team All-Big Ten honors last Wednesday. She was the Blue Jays' lone all-conference selection this season.
• Barker is having a career year for the Blue Jays. She leads the team with 20 assists and ranks second in points (44) and third in goals (24). She also has 18 ground balls and four caused turnovers.
• Barker has posted career highs in assists, points, ground balls and caused turnovers this season. She also ranks eighth in the Big Ten in assists per game (1.17).
  • ILWomen released it's Midseason All-America teams on March 31 and freshman Reagan O'Brien was named to the Honorable Mention team. She was one of just four freshmen named to the four teams.
• O'Brien leads the Blue Jays and ranks fourth in the Big Ten with 1.67 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.
  • 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 played four nationally televised games this season. JHU will 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 472-309-4 (.604) and a 254-172 (.596) 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 20 NCAA Tournament appearances, including 11 in the Division I Tournament (2004, 2005, 2007, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022,  2023).
  • 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.
  • With a win, Hopkins would face the winner of seventh-seeded James Madison and 11th-ranked Maryland in the NCAA Quarterfinals on May 18.