• Johns Hopkins is back at Homewood Field to take on future Big Ten opponent and 16th-ranked USC on Sunday afternoon. 
• The Blue Jays are coming off a 10-9 win over the Georgetown Hoyas in a rain-soaked affair at Homewood Field Wednesday afternoon. The win snapped a two-game losing streak for JHU as the Jays improved to 4-2.
• Sunday's game is the second of a three-game homestand for Hopkins. JHU hosts Georgetown, USC and Vanderbilt in a one-week span.
  • Hopkins is now 34-14-1 (.698) all-time in season-openers and has won 19 of its last 21 season-openers. 
• The game at UAlbany was the first time the Blue Jays opened the season on the road since 2019. In fact, it was just the ninth time since the Jays moved to Division I in 1999 (26 seasons) that they opened the season away from Homewood.
• This is the 14th time since 1999 that Hopkins has started the season with atleast three wins in its first four games. 
  • Johns Hopkins is 166-71-2 (.699) all-time in the month of March, including 4-4 under head coach Tim McCormack.
• Since moving to Division I in 1999, the Blue Jays are 117-55 (.680) in the month of March.
  • Hopkins is ranked 15th in the IL Women/IWLCA Poll with 270 points and is ranked 14th in the USA Lacrosse Poll this week.
• JHU has been ranked in each of the last 10 IL Women/IWLCA polls and 19 of the last 23 polls.
• Ten of the Blue Jays' 2024 opponents are ranked in the IL Women/IWLCA poll, including five in the top-10 (James Madison, Northwestern, Michigan Loyola, Maryland).
  • Johns Hopkins forced a shot clock violation in the final minute and then ran out the clock for a 10-9 win over Georgetown Wednesday afternoon.
• Senior Abbey Hurlbrink scored with 12:13 to play to put the Blue Jays up 10-6. Georgetown answered with three straight goals to make it a one-goal game with just 2:23 on the clock. The Hoyas won the ensuing draw, but the Blue Jay defense were able to hold them off.
• Sophomore Ava Angello led the Blue Jays with her fourth hat trick of the season and junior Ashley Mackin added three points (1g, 2a). Senior Georgie Gorelick was the only other multi-goal scorer for the Blue Jays with her two goals. Hurlbrink and seniors Marielle McAteer and Campbell Case all had two-point (1g, 1a) outings as well. Graduate student Jennifer Barry had a game-high seven draws as the Blue Jays outdrew the Hoyas, 16-15.
  • Junior Ashley Mackin, senior Abbey Hurlbrink and sophomore Ava Angello reached double digit points just three games into the season. Last year, it took Mackin until the sixth game of the year to reach that mark and it took Hurlbrink until the 14th game. Angello meanwhile, needed just four games into her freshman campaign to reach the double-digit mark.
• Mackin leads JHU with 27 points and ranks sixth in the Big Ten with 4.50 points per game. Angello ranks second with 19 points and Hurlbrink is third with 17 points. Senior Campbell Case reached the double-digit mark on Wednesday and ranks fourth on the team with 11 points.
• Mackin also leads the team with 20 goals and is sixth in the conference with 3.33 goals per game. Her 20 goals are second in the Big Ten and fifth in the nation. In fact, Mackin's 20 goals are already a career high, eclipsing her 2023 total of 19 (13 games). Mackin scored 19 goals in the first five games, the most by a Blue Jay through the first five games since 2006. That year, Mary Key scored 21 goals in the first five games of the season.
• Angello ranks second on the team with 13 goals and Hurlbrink is third with 10 goals. 
• Through six games, 14 players have scored at least one goal and eight of the 14 have at least four goals.
• As a team, Hopkins ranks fourth in the Big Ten, and 30th in the nation, in scoring offense with 13.67 goals per game.
  • 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).  
  • 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 brought 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 returned 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 scored 17 goals to finish with 32 points.
  • Six games into the season, Hopkins ranks second in the Big Ten and 19th in the nation with 7.33 assists per game. Last season, JHU ranked second in the conference and 19th in the nation with 6.72 assists per game.
• Fourteen Blue Jays have notched at least one assist this season, led by Ava Angello (7), Abbey Hurlbrink (7) and Bailey Cheetham (6). Cheetham ranks fifth in the Big Ten with 1.50 assists per game.
• 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 last May, 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 49 career assists. She ranks 14th in school Division I history in career assists. Campbell Case and Cheetham were tied for second with 19 assists each.
• Angello (13), Hurlbrink (11) and Mackin (10) also reached double digits in assists last season.
• Cheetham has totaled 34 career assists, the fourth most by a midfielder in school Division I history. Hurlbrink is tied for eighth with 23 career assists by a midfielder.
  • Graduate student Madison Doucette is back in the crease after taking a gap year in 2023 and its like she never left. She has started all six games this season for the Blue Jays and leads the Big Ten in saves (57) and is second in saves per game (9.50). She ranks fifth in the nation in total saves and is 18th in saves per game.
• Just six games into her career in the Hopkins Blue & Black, Doucette already ranks 13th in school Division I history in career saves.
• Doucette also leads Hopkins and the conference in ground balls with 18 (3.17 per game). 
  • 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 2023 opener against UAlbany.
• Marshall's 87 draws were the third most in school single-season history. She had three games with 10 draws last season and is one of only two players in program history with multiple double-digit draw games, joining Shelby Harrison.
• Abbey Hurlbrink ranked second on the team with a career high 53 draws and is 10th in JHU history with 121 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 came 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.
• Barry jumped right in and made an immediate impact with eight draws in the win at UAlbany. Two other newcomers made their mark in the center circle opening weekend in freshman Kayley Kakac and graduate student Kacie Riggs. Kakac turned in a nine-draw performance in the win at Siena. Her nine draws were two shy of the school record. Riggs controlled six draws versus the Saints in the second game.
• Barry ranks second among all active players in the nation with 408 career draw controls. She also is averaging 7.42 draws per game for her career, the best per game average among all active players.
• Barry leads the Blue Jays with 30 draws and ranks second in the Big Ten in draws per game (5.00). Abbey Hurlbrink ranks second on the team with 15 draws, while Kakac and Jordan Carr are tied for third with 13 draws each.
• Hopkins dominated the draw at Siena, outdrawing the Saints, 22-7. The 22 draws are tied for the second most in school history and are four shy of the school record. It is also the third time in the last two seasons that the Blue Jays have had at least 22 draws in a game.
•  As a team, Hopkins ranks third in the Big Ten and 31st in the nation in draws per game (15.40).
• Last season, 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.
  • Sunday's game will be the first-ever meeting between Johns Hopkins and the University of Southern California. It will also be the last between the two as non-conference opponents as the Trojans will join the Big Ten in 2024-25.
• Head coach Tim McCormack and assistant coaches Dorrien Van Dyke and Nicole Graziano are no strangers to USC as they faced off against the Trojans five times during their tenure at Arizona State. McCormack went 2-3 against USC during his time in Tempe, and won the last meeting, 13-12, in the 2022 Pac-12 Semifinals.
  • Andy Enfield, head coach of the USC men's basketball team, is Johns Hopkins' all-time leading scorer and was inducted into the University's Athletic Hall of Fame in 2001.
• Enfield, a 1991 graduate of Johns Hopkins, was an All-American and Academic All-American for the Blue Jays and finished his career with 2,025 points. He led the Blue Jays to a 68-40 (.629) record, including the program's first-ever 20-win season, and back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances. Enfield is still the program's career leader in points, scoring average (18.8), field goals made (680), three-point percentage (.470), free throws made (431) and minutes (3,542).
• Enfield became the head coach at USC in April 2013 after a two-year stint at Florida Gulf Coast. In his second season in Fort Myers, he put the 15th-seed Eagles on the map with a stunning run to the NCAA Sweet 16 in 2013. He sports a career record of 257-174 (.596), including a record of 216-146 (.597) at USC.
  • Sunday's game is the 12th game for Johns Hopkins against a current member of the Pac-12. However, it is the first game for the Blue Jays against a Pac-12 school since 2016, when JHU played Stanford.
• Hopkins is 8-3 all-time against members of the Pac-12, with nine of the 11 games coming against Oregon and Stanford. In all, Hopkins has faced just four of the eight Pac-12 schools.
• Blue Jay head coach Tim McCormack went 13-8 against the Pac-12 during his tenure at Arizona State, including 2-3 against USC.
   • 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 JHU 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.
  • Reagan O'Brien made her mark on the Blue Jay defense in her freshman campaign in 2023. 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.
• Jordan Carr made the transition from midfield to defense this season and hasn't missed a step. She totaled seven caused turnovers and two ground balls in the Blue Jays' two wins opening weekend. Through six games this season, she boasts 11 caused turnovers, seven ground balls and 13 draws. Carr leads the Big Ten and ranks 28th in the nation with 1.83 caused turnovers per game.
• Sophomore Hannah Johnson ranks second on the team with seven caused turnovers and O'Brien is third with five takeaways. Johnson's seven caused turnovers match her total in 2023, when she played all 18 games and started 11 on defense.
• As a team, Hopkins ranks fifth in the Big Ten with 7.83 caused turnovers per game. Last season, JHU ranked third in the Big Ten and 23rd in the nation with 9.11 caused turnovers per game.
  • Senior defender Jordan Carr scored a transition goal with 4:25 left in the second quarter at UAlbany. This is the third straight year that a Blue Jay defender has scored a goal, as junior Quinlan O'Brien scored last year at Loyola and Jeanne Kachris scored against UMBC in 2022.
• Carr was a midfielder in her first three seasons before moving to defense this season. She scored 31 goals in her first three seasons with the Blue Jays.
• Carr is the 13th Hopkins defender to score a goal since the program moved to Division I in 1999. Six of the 13 scored multiple goals in their career.
• 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 will 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 476-312-4 (.603) and a 258-174 (.597) record as a Division I program.
• Hopkins will play the 800th game in program history on March 30 versus James Madison at Homewood Field.
• 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 closes out its three-game homestand on Wednesday, March 6 against Vanderbilt. Opening draw at Homewood Field is slated for 1:00 pm.
 
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