• Johns Hopkins opens its 49th season overall, and 26th in Division I, against UAlbany on Friday in the Capital Region.
• Hopkins is 33-14-1 (.698) all-time in season openers and has won 18 of its last 20 season-openers. 
• This is the first time the Blue Jays are opening the season on the road since 2019. In fact, this is just the ninth time since the Jays moved to Division I in 1999 that they are opening the season away from Homewood.
• Hopkins then makes the short trip over to Siena to take on the Saints on Sunday afternoon.
  • Hopkins is 41-23 (.641) all-time in the month of February. Now in their 49th 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.
  • Host and second-seeded Syracuse pulled away with a 9-1 third quarter as the Orange topped Johns Hopkins, 25-8, in the NCAA Sweet 16 last May.
• Bailey Cheetham led the Blue Jays with four goals on two goals and two assists. Ava Angello (2g) and Ashley Mackin (2g, 1a) also had multi-point games for Hopkins. Angello also tied her career-high with six draw controls while Madison McPherson had three ground balls and a pair of caused turnovers on the defensive end.
  • Hopkins is ranked 14th in the IL Women/IWLCA Preseason Poll with 227 points and is ranked 11th in the USA Lacrosse Preseason Poll.
• JHU has been ranked in nine of the last 10 IL Women/IWLCA Preseason Polls. The Blue Jays are ranked in the top-15 in the preseason poll for the first time since 2009, when they were ranked 15th.
• Eleven of the Blue Jays' 2024 opponents are ranked in the IL Women/IWLCA poll, including four in the top-10.
  • Johns Hopkins has been picked to finish third in the Big Ten in a preseason vote of the league's head coaches.
• Defending national champion Northwestern is the preseason favorite to win the Big Ten in 2024. Maryland was picked second in the poll, followed by Hopkins, Michigan, Penn State, Rutgers and Ohio State.
• All seven teams qualify for the Big Ten 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 27. Northwestern will host the semifinals (May 2) and finals (May 4).
  • Graduate student midfielder Bailey Cheetham and senior midfielders Jordan Carr and Abbey Hurlbrink have been selected as captains for the 2024 season. Cheetham and Carr are both two-time captains. They are the 19th and 20th players in program history to serve as a captain twice.
• Cheetham returns after posting career highs in every statistical category last season. She finished with 17 goals, 19 assists, 24 ground balls, 14 caused turnovers and 19 draw controls. She ranked second on the team in assists and was fourth in points.
• Carr topped a breakout sophomore season with a career junior year in 2023. She started 16 games and posted career highs in goals (19), points (21) and draw controls (16). Carr also picked up 17 ground balls and casued nine turnovers.
• Hurlbrink started 15 games a year ago and finished with 14 goals and a career-high 11 assists. She also finished with career highs in ground balls (18) and draw controls (53) and had eight caused turnovers. Hurlbrink's 53 draws ranked second on the team.
  • The Blue Jays' 2024 roster includes six graduate students, nine seniors, eight juniors, seven sophomores and 11 freshmen.
• The 41-woman roster features players from 12 states, the District of Columbia and one Canadian province (Ontario). The Blue Jays also represent all four United States time zones.
• By state, the Blue Jays hail from New York (10), Maryland (9), New Jersey (5), Massachusetts (4), California (2), Pennsylvania (2), Oregon (2), Connecticut (1), Virginia (1), Minnesota (1), Texas (1) and Colorado (1).  
  • Head coach Tim McCormack welcomed three graduate student transfers - Jennifer Barry (Boston University), Madison Doucette (Northwestern) and Kacie Riggs (Cal) to Homewood this Fall.
• A 2022 IL All-American, Barry earned All-Patriot League honors three times and was a two-time IWLCA All-Northeast selection for the Terriers. She totaled 57 goals and 35 assists to go with 378 draws, 55 ground balls and 37 caused turnovers. Barry holds the BU record for draws in a game (18), seasons (156) and career (378). In 2023, she ranked second in the Patriot League and eighth in the nation with 7.72 draws per game. 
• Doucette went 32-8 as a starter for the Wildcats. She boasted an 11.83 goals against average and a .407 save percentage while leading NU to the 2021 and 2022 NCAA Final Four. She ranked second in the Big Ten in saves (166) and sixth in save percentage (.422) as a senior. Doucette led the league in goals against average (11.06) as a junior.
• Riggs was a two-year starter on defense for the Bears. She totaled 84 draw controls, 35 ground balls and 14 caused turnovers in her career with the Bears. Riggs ranked second on the team, and ninth in the Pac-12 in draws (45).
  • The Blue Jays welcomed 11 freshmen to campus this Fall. The group represent five states as well as Washington, DC.
• Joining Hopkins are Jaelyn Bennett, Alexa Christensen, Piper Daskalos, Samantha DiCarlo, Jane Freeman, Taylor Hoss, Kaley Kakac, Nina Palella, Heidi Rosely and Sam Tate.
  • Athletics at Johns Hopkins is a family affair and this year's team is no different.
• Sophomore midfielder Reagan O'Brien and junior defender Quinlan O'Brien are the 13th pair of sisters to don the Hopkins Blue & Black.
• Sophomore goalie Morgan Giardina is following in the footsteps of her father, Scott, who played lacrosse at Johns Hopkins and is a 1992 graduate of the University.
• In addition, senior Liza Regan played alongside her cousin, Caroline Somerville, for two seasons (2021, 2022) at Homewood.
  • The Blue Jays piled up the honors this preseason.
• Graduate student goalie Madison Doucette, senior midfielder Abbey Hurlbrink and sophomore attacker Ava Angello were named to the Big Ten Player to Watch list.
• Doucette and Angello, along with graduate student draw specialist Jennifer Barry were named to the Inside Lacrosse Preseason All-America Team.
• In addition, Doucette was named a USA Lacrosse Preseason All-American.
  • Johns Hopkins University will induct nine new members into its Athletic Hall of Fame in ceremonies scheduled for Friday, April 19, 2024. The nine-member class will be the 25th inducted since the Johns Hopkins Athletic Hall of Fame was formed in 1994 and raises the total number of members to 203. 
• Among the nine inductees is Dawn Nee, a 1991 graduate of the University and a four-year member of the women's lacrosse team. Nee is the 20th women's lacrosse player to be inducted into the JHU Athletic Hall of Fame.
• In 1991, Nee became just the second defender in program history to earn First Team All-America honors. She also earned First Team All-Region and First Team All-Middle Atlantic Conference honors as a senior. Nee totaled nine goals, two assists, 39 ground balls and 23 draw controls over her final two seasons.
• Nee helped Johns Hopkins to a four-year record of 47-16 with four MAC West titles and two MAC Tournament Championships. She also helped the Blue Jays to three appearances in the NCAA Tournament with the program's first-ever trip to the NCAA Semifinals in 1988.
  • Hopkins brings back more than 96 percent of its goals (218 of 226) and more than 97 percent of its assists (118 of 121) in 2024. The Blue Jays return their top-12 goal scorers and 14 of the 17 players that scored at least one goal last season.
• JHU boasted a balanced attack in 2023 as five players scored at least 30 points. The last time the Blue Jays had five players with 30 or more points was in 2019.
• Ava Angello led the way with 53 points and 40 goals, while Maeve Barker (24g, 21a) and Campbell Case (24g, 19a) also eclipsed the 40-point mark.
• Georgie Gorelick ranked second on the team with 26 goals and added six assists for 32 points. Bailey Cheetham was tied for second on the team in assists (19) and scroed 17 goals to finish with 32 points.
  • Ava Angello led Hopkins with 40 goals last season becoming the first freshman to lead the Blue Jays in goals 2009. She is just the third freshman to lead JHU in goals since the program moved to Division I in 1999.
• She ranked second in the Big Ten in points (53) by a freshman and was third in goals by a freshman.
• Angello scored three goals in her collegiate debut against UAlbany and was the first freshman to tally a hat trick in their debut since 2016. In fact, she was just the fifth freshman in school Division I history to score a hat trick in their collegiate debut.
• Angello tied the school single-game record for goals by a freshman when she scored six against Monmouth. She joined Meghan Burnett (2000) and Jamie Larrimore (1999) as the only Blue Jay freshmen with six goals in a game.
• In Johns Hopkins history, Angello ranks third in points, fourth in goals and sixth in assists by a freshman. She also ranks 11th in draws (30) by a freshman.
  • Hopkins ranks second in the Big Ten and 19th in the nation with 6.72 assists per game last season.
• JHU notched 121 assists and assisted on 53.5 percent of its goals in 2023. The 121 assists are the second most in school Division I history, while the 6.72 assists per game and assist-to-goal ratio of 53.5 are the third best per game average.
• Hopkins tallied 10 assists in the win over UMass in the NCAA First Round, 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.
• Maeve Barker led the team with 21 assists and is JHU's active career leader with 45 career assists. She ranks 15th in school Division I history in career assists. Campbell Case and Bailey Cheetham were tied for second with 19 assists each.
• Ava Angello (13), Abbey Hurlbrink (11) and Ashley Mackin (10) also reached double digits in assists last season.
• Cheetham enters her final campaign with 28 career assists, tied for fifth most by a midfielder in school Division I history. In addition, Hurlbrink is tied for 15th with 16 career assists.
  • Annie Marshall took the majority of the draw controls for the Blue Jays in 2023 and despite missing three games due to injury, she led the team with 87 draws and ranked third in the Big Ten, and 30th in the nation, with 5.80 draws per game. Marshall matched her 2022 season total (6) in JHU's opener against UAlbany.
• Marshall's 87 draws were the third most in school single-season history. She controlled a career-high 10 draws versus Penn - 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.
• Abbey Hurlbrink ranked second on the team with a career high 53 draws and is 10th in JHU history with 106 career draws. Ava Angello finished third on the team with 30 draw controls, which ranks 10th among freshman in program history.
• Hopkins only got stronger in the center circle this summer with the addition of graduate student and draw specialist Jennifer Barry. She comes to Baltimore from Boston University, where she earned All-Patriot League honors in each of her last three seasons. She earned IWLCA Northeast Region Second Team honors in 2022 and 2023 and was named a Third Team All-American by Inside Lacrosse in 2022. A three-year starter, Barry totaled 57 goals and 35 assists to go with 378 draws, 55 ground balls and 37 caused turnovers. She holds the BU record for draws in a game (18), season (156) and career (378). In 2023, she ranked second in the Patriot League and eighth in the nation with 7.72 draws per game and in 2022, she led the league and was fourth nationally with 9.18 draws per game.
• As a team, Hopkins ranked third in the Big Ten with 14.61 draws per game. That is the best per game average in school Division I history. The Blue Jays won 52.1 percent of their draws, which ranked fourth in the Big Ten. In addition, Hopkins' 263 draw controls in 2023 are the second most in school history.
  • Reagan O'Brien made her mark on the Blue Jay defense in her freshman campaign. She notched three caused turnovers and three ground balls in her collegiate debut versus UAlbany and led the team with 25 caused turnovers. She also finished fifth with 23 ground balls in 16 games. 
• O'Brien led Hopkins and ranked fifth in the Big Ten with 1.56 caused turnovers per game. 
• O'Brien tied the program single-game record for caused turnovers by a freshman when she had six takeways at Loyola. Her 25 caused turnovers were fifth most by a freshman in school history.
• As a team, Hopkins ranked third in the Big Ten and 23rd in the nation with 9.11 caused turnovers per game.
  • Friday's game is just the second meeting between Johns Hopkins and UAlbany. The two first met in the 2023 season opener with the Blue Jays winning 17-10 to give head coach Tim McCormack his first win at Homewood.
• Sunday's game is the first-ever meeting between Johns Hopkins and Siena.
  • Friday's game is the 34th game for Johns Hopkins against a current member of the America East.
• Hopkins is 18-13-2 all-time against members of the AE, with 32 of those games coming against UMBC.
  • Sunday's game is the 12th game for Johns Hopkins against a current member of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.
• Hopkins is 11-0 all-time against members of the MAAC, with all 11 of those games coming against Mount St. Mary's.
  • Friday's game at UAlbany will be just the second for Hopkins on February 9. The Blue Jays won their only other game on this date.
 
     2018     Marquette____________ W, 14-7
     • Sunday's game at Siena will be just the second for Hopkins on February 11. The Blue Jays won their only other game on this date.
 
     2019     at Drexel_____________ W, 17-9
  • Head coach Tim McCormack joined Kelly Amonte Hiller's staff as an assistant coach of the 2024 US Women's U20 National Team it was announced last May.
• The US team will compete in the 2024 World Lacrosse Women's U20 Championship in Hong Kong, China this 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.
  • Hopkins is scheduled to play three nationally televised games this season. JHU willl take on Maryland (April 10) and Michigan (April 14) on ESPNU. In addition, Hopkins' game at Penn State (April 18) will be shown on the Big Ten Network. 
  • This marks the 49th season for Johns Hopkins, which sports an all-time record of 472-310-4 (.603) and a 254-173 (.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 20 NCAA Tournament appearances, including 11 in the Division I Tournament (2004, 2005, 2007, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022,  2023).
  • Hopkins produced 26 Academic All-Big Ten selections in 2023. In addition, thirteen Blue Jays were named Big Ten Distinguished Scholars.
• JHU also placed 12 student-athletes on  the IWLCA Academic Honor Roll and the team earned IWLCA Academic Squad honors for the 10th straight season. Hopkins posted an impressive 3.618 GPA for the 2022-23 academic year.
  • Hopkins travels to Durham to take on 24th-ranked Duke on February 17. Opening draw at Koskinen Stadium is slated for 3:00 pm.

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