• Johns Hopkins is back on the road to open Big Ten Tournament play at fifth-ranked Michigan on Saturday afternoon.
• The Blue Jays dropped a 16-13 decision to the 19th-ranked Penn State Nittany Lions in both teams' regular season finale last Thursday in State College.
• The loss dropped Hopkins' record to 10-6 overall and 2-4 in the Big Ten as the Blue Jays earned the five seed in the tournament.
  • The number five seed in the Big Ten Tournament, Hopkins takes on host and number four seed Michigan.
• Northwestern earned the number one seed and the bye with its 5-1 record. By virtue of the tiebreaker, Penn State secured the two seed, with Maryland and Michigan claiming the number three and four seeds, respectively. Rutgers secured the six seed via the tiebreaker with Ohio State.
• On Saturday, Penn State will play host to Ohio State at 12:00 pm, with Hopkins traveling to Michigan for a 3:30 pm start. In the third and final quarterfinal, Maryland will welcome Rutgers to College Park at 4:00 pm.
• The semifinal contests are slated to begin at 1:00 pm (ET) and 3:30 pm (ET) on May 2 in Evanston, with the championship scheduled for 5:30 pm on Saturday, May 4. All three contests will be broadcast live on BTN and the FOX Sports app.
• Hopkins is 1-5 in the Big Ten Tournament, including 1-1 in the quarterfinals, since joining the league in 2017. The Blue Jays' lone win in the tournament came in the 2021 quarterfinals, when JHU beat host Penn State, 11-9.
  • Johns Hopkins placed four players on the 2024 All-Big Ten Women's Lacrosse Team. The Blue Jays had one first team selection and three second team selections while also placing one player on the Sportsmanship Team. The four selections are tied for the second most in program history.
• Senior Jordan Carr was named to the first team and graduate student Jennifer Barry, senior Abbey Hurlbrink and sophomore Ava Angello were named to the second team. Senior Marielle McAteer was named to the All-Sportsmanship Team. Hopkins has now produced 23 All-Big Ten selections since joining the league in 2017.
• Carr leads the Big Ten in caused turnovers (2.69) and ground balls per game (2.81). She also ranks sixth nationally in takeaways and 34th in ground balls. Carr's 43 caused turnovers, 45 ground balls and 37 draw controls are all career highs. Her 43 caused turnovers are the second most in school single-season history.
• Angello leads the Blue Jays in goals (43) and points (56) and ranks seventh in the B1G in goals per game (2.69) and is eighth in points per game (3.50). She is also tied for fourth on the team in assists with 13. Her 43 goals and 56 points are both career highs, while her 13 assists tie her career high.
• Barry leads the Big Ten and ranks 20th in the nation with 6.38 draw controls per game. She has totaled 102 draws on the season, one shy of the program single-season record. Barry has tallied eight or more draws, nine times this season. She broke the program single-game record with 16 draws against Vanderbilt and she owns three of the top-four draw performances in JHU history.
• Hurlbrink ranks second on the team with 20 assists and is eighth in the Big Ten with 1.25 assists per game. She is second for the Blue Jays in draw controls (45) and fourth in points (38) and ground balls (22).
• McAteer has started all 16 games for the Blue Jays and has posted career-highs in goals (16), assists (9), points (25) and ground balls (9).
  • Hopkins is ranked 15th in this week's IL Women/IWLCA Poll with 173 points. JHU is also ranked 13th in the USA Lacrosse Poll this week.
• JHU has been ranked in each of the last 18 IL Women/IWLCA polls and 27 of the last 31 polls.
• Ten of the Blue Jays' 2024 opponents are ranked in the IL Women/IWLCA poll, including four in the top-10 (Northwestern, Michigan, Maryland, Loyola).
• Hopkins boasts the toughest schedule in the nation as the Blue Jays' 2024 opponents sport a combined win percentage of .699 (174-75). JHU is also 12th in the nation in RPI (.64950).
  • Host Penn State beat Johns Hopkins, 16-13, in both teams' regular season finale last Thursday night.
• Hopkins jumped out to a 4-1 lead in the game's opening 11 minutes with four different goal scorers. Alayna Costa opened the scoring when she scored off a give-and-go with Bailey Cheetham at 12:05. Four minutes later, Ava Angello took a feed from Ashley Mackin and scored on a tough shot with defenders draped all over her. Meghan Murray got Nittany Lions on the board at the 6:02-mark before Abbey Hurlbrink and Maeve Barker scored back-to-back goals in a 52-second span to put the Blue Jays up 4-1 with 4:12 to go in the quarter.
• Penn State sandwiched a pair of scores round a Mackin goal and Hopkins led 5-3 after one. Charlotte Smith buried an eight-meter shot at the 12:51-mark and just 40 seconds later Mackin scored off an absolute rip from seven yards out to stake the Blue Jays to a 7-3 lead. Kayla Abernarthy answered for the Nittany Lions at 10:29 to spark an eight-goal run that spanned just over 17 minutes and saw PSU take an 11-7 lead.
• Barker got the Blue Jays back on the board when she scored on a shot to the far post off the dodge with 7:33 to go in the third. Taylor Hoss then scored on a left-handed rip while going to the ground to pull the Blue Jays within two. Brooke Hoss answered on the other end for the Nittany Lions, sandwiching two scores around a strike from Saltz and Penn State led 14-9 after three.
• Cheetham opened the fourth quarter with an eight-meter goal, but PSU answered with back-to-back goals and the lead was 16-10 with 10:40 to play. Angello got one back for the Blue Jays, scoring a tough shot in traffic and Mackin followed with a strike on the doorstep at the 4:23-mark to make it 16-12. Campbell Case cut the deficit to three two and a half minutes later, when she stepped down, dropped her stick and blew home a shot from eight yards out but that would do it as the Blue Jays could get no closer.
• Mackin led the Blue Jays with three goals and four points and tallied her ninth hat trick of the season. Hoss (1g, 2a) and Barker (2g, 1a) had three points apiece, while Angello also had a multi-goal game. Jordan Carr had five caused turnovers and four ground balls, while Case and Hannah Johnson had two each.
  • Sophomore Ava Angello tallied the 100th point of her career with her assist on Bailey Cheetham's overtime winner at Rutgers. She did so in her 31st career game, making her the seventh fastest player in program history to reach the milestone.
• Angello is the 47th player in school history, and 29th since the program moved to Division I, to score 100 career points.
• Senior Abbey Hurlbrink notched the 100th point of her career in the win over James Madison on March 30. The milestone came with her assist on Angello's goal with 7:32 left in the second quarter. 
• Angello now boasts 83 goals and 26 assists in 34 career games. Hurlbrink has 72 goals and 36 assists in 68 career games. The pair join graduate student Maeve Barker (149 career points), as current members of the 100-point club.
• Graduate student Bailey Cheetham needs just one point to become the third player this season to reach 100 career points.
• This is the 13th time in program history that there have been at least three active 100-point scorers. There have been only two times with four 100-point scorers on the same team. The last came in 2001-02 with Jamie Larrimore, Erin Wellner, Meghan Burnett and Heidi Pearce.
  • Johns Hopkins University inducted eight new members into its Athletic Hall of Fame on Friday, April 19, 2024. The eight-member class is the 25th inducted since the Johns Hopkins Athletic Hall of Fame was formed in 1994 and raised the total number of members to 202. 
• Among the eight 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.
  • 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.
• Angello leads JHU with 56 points and ranks eighth in the Big Ten with 3.50 points per game. Mackin ranks second on the team with 53 points and is seventh in the conference in points per game (3.53). Graduate student Bailey Cheetham is third with 42 points and senior Campbell Case is fourth with 40 points. Hurlbrink is right behind them with 38 points. Angello, Mackin, Cheetham and Hurlbrink have all posted career-highs in points this season.
• Nine Blue Jays have now reached double digits in points, with six of those eclipsing the 30-point mark this season. This is the first time since 2019 that Hopkins has at least four players with 40 or more points. In fact, it is just the ninth time it's happened in the 49-year history of the program.
• Angello also leads the team with a career-high 43 goals and ranks seventh in the Big Ten with 2.69 goals per game. Mackin ranks second with 39 goals and is ninth in the conference with 2.60 goals per game. Her 39 goals are already a career high, as she matched her 2023 total of 19 (13 games) just five games into the season. Mackin's 19 goals in the first five games are 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.
• Case is third on the team with a career-high 27 goals, while graduate student Maeve Barker is fourth (25) and Hurlbrink is fifth (18). Seven Blue Jays have reached double digits in goals. In addition, 17 players have scored at least one goal and nine of the 17 have at least eight goals.
• As a team, Hopkins ranks second in the Big Ten, and 33rd in the nation, in scoring offense with 13.63 goals per game. The Blue Jays' 13.63 goals per game are the second best single-season mark in school Division I history. The 1999 squad holds the record with 13.79 goals per game (14 games).
• In addition, Hopkins ranks second in the Big Ten and 20th in the nation with 21.94 points per game. The Blue Jays 351 points so far this season are the second most in school Division I history and are sixth most all-time at JHU. The 21.94 points per game is currently the best in school Division I history and is second all-time in program history. The 1994 team averaged 23.65 points per game (402 points in 17 games). 
  • Ava Angello reached the 40-goal mark against Maryland and she now has 43 goals on the season. This is her second straight season with at least 40 goals, as she scored 40 goals last season.
• Angello is the first Blue Jays with consecutive 40-goal seasons since Dene DiMartino accomplished the feat in three consecutive seasons from 2014-2016.
• Since the program moved to Division I in 1999, Angello is just the seventh player with consecutive 40-goal seasons. In the 49-year history of the program, she is the 12th player with consecutive 40-goal seasons.
  • Hopkins leads the Big Ten and ranks eighth in the nation with 8.31 assists per game. Last season, JHU ranked second in the conference and 19th in the nation with 6.72 assists per game. Right now, the 8.31– assists per game would be the best average in program history.
• Hopkins broke the program's Division I single-season record for assists (123) versus Michigan and then broke the all-time school record (130) at Penn State on Thursday. The Blue Jays now boast 133 assists on the season.
• The Blue Jays have turned in four double-digit assist performances this season, including a school-record 16 assists in the win over James Madison.
• Hopkins is assisting on 61.10 percent of its goals (218g, 133a) through 16 games this season. That is the second highest assist-to-goal ratio in the nation and is the best in program history. 
• JHU notched 121 assists and assisted on 53.5 percent of its goals in 2023. The 121 assists are now third 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.
  • Sixteen Blue Jays have notched at least one assist this season, led by Bailey Cheetham (29), Abbey Hurlbrink (20), Ashley Mackin (13), Ava Angello (13), Campbell Case (12) and Maeve Barker (12). Cheetham ranks third in the Big Ten with 2.07 assists per game and Hurlbrink ranks eighth (1.25).
• This is the first time since 2019, and ninth time overall, that Hopkins has had multiple players with 20 or more assists.
• Cheetham's 29 assists are a career high and are tied for the ninth most in school single-season history. She is also tied, with Barker, for eighth in program history in career assists (57). Barker led the team last year with 21 assists, while Case and Cheetham were tied for second with 19 assists.
• Angello (13), Hurlbrink (13) and Mackin (10) also reached double digits in assists last season.
• Cheetham's 57 assists are the most by a midfielder in school Division I history. Hurlbrink is fifth with 36 career assists by a midfielder. Her 20 assists this season are a career high, surpassing her total (11) from last year (18 games).
  • Hopkins 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. At the time, her nine draws were two shy of the school record. Kakac's nine draws are also tied for third most in a game by a freshman in JHU history. Riggs controlled six draws versus the Saints in the second game.
• Barry ranks second among all active players in the nation, and 13th in NCAA Division I history, with 480 career draw controls. She is averaging 7.38 draws per game for her career, the best average among all active players. Barry's per game average ranks seventh in NCAA Division I history.
• Barry leads the Big Ten in draws (102) and draws per game (6.73). Nationally, she ranks 20th in draws per game. In fact, her 102 draws rank second in school single-season history and she needs just one draw to tie Dene DiMartino's record of 103 (2016).  In addition, Barry is tied for 11th in Hopkins career history with her 102 draws.
• Abbey Hurlbrink ranks second on the team with 45 draws and Jordan Carr is third with a career-high 37 draws. Hurlbrink also ranks eighth in school history with 151 career draw controls.
  •  As a team, Hopkins ranks second in the Big Ten and 31st in the nation in draws per game (14.94). The 14.94 draws per game is the best average all-time in school history. Hopkins wins 53.5 percent of draw controls, which ranks fifth in the Big Ten. It is also the seventh best draw control percentage in school Division I history. 
• Hopkins dominated the draw at Siena, outdrawing the Saints, 22-7. At the time, the 22 draws were tied for the second most in school history and were four shy of the school record. Against Vanderbilt, the Blue Jays outdrew the Commodores, 20-8, including 7-2 in the second half. On March 30, Hopkins won the draw battle against James Madison, 23-13, and a week later, JHU outdrew Rutgers, 19-9. Hopkins has had at least 22 draws in a game four times in the last two seasons.
• Last season, Hopkins ranked third in the Big Ten with 14.61 draws per game. That is the second 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.
  • 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 16 games this season for the Blue Jays and leads the Big Ten in saves (150) and saves per game (9.38). Doucette also ranks 11th in the nation in total saves and 14th in saves per game.
• Doucette ranks 14th among active Division I goalies in career saves with 486. Just 16 games into her career in the Hopkins Blue & Black, she already ranks 10th in school Division I history in career saves. Her 150 saves this season are fifth most in school Division I single-season history and are 20 shy of the program record.
• Doucette also ranks third in the Big Ten in ground balls with 2.31 per game.
  • Hopkins takes on Michigan for the second time this season and 10th time since the series began in 2014. After that first meeting, the teams didn't meet again until 2017, when JHU joined the Big Ten.
• Hopkins leads the series, 6-3, but Michigan won the last meeting, 13-9, just two weeks ago at Homewood Field.
• This is the first meeting between the Blue Jays and Wolverines in the Big Ten Tournament.
  • Sophomore Ava Angello turned in her third six-point performance of the season versus Maryland. She finished with a game-high five goals and six points against the Terps.
• Angello (6g, 2a) and graduate student Maeve Barker (4g, 2a) each had six-point performances in the win over James Madison. It is the first time that two Blue Jays had at least six points in a game since March 7, 2023 when Angello (6g) and Barker (3g, 3a) had six points each at Monmouth.
• Since JHU moved to Division I in 1999, there have been 16 games, out of 442, 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.
• Angello also had six points (3g, 3a) in the win at Siena on opening weekend. Four Blue Jays have combined for six six-point outings this season. In addition to Barker and Angello (3 games), Ashley Mackin and Abbey Hurlbrink have also had a game with at least six points this season. 
  • Ava Angello's six goals and Bailey Cheetham's five assists against James Madison was the first time since April 29, 2023, and the 13th time overall, that Hopkins had a player with five goals (or more) 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 Oregon.
     • Senior defender Jordan Carr scored a transition goal with 4:25 left in the second quarter at UAlbany in the season-opener. She scored her second goal of the season on March 6 in the win over Vanderbilt. Carr got her third of the season on March 30 against James Madison.
• 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. She is the seventh that has multiple goals in their career as a defender. Her three goals this season are tied for third most by a defender.
• 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.
  • 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 16 games this season, she boasts 43 caused turnovers, 45 ground balls and 37 draws - all career highs. Carr leads the Big Ten and ranks sixth in the nation with 2.69 caused turnovers per game. Her 43 caused turnovers are the second most in school single-season history and she now ranks 13th in JHU history with 65 career caused turnovers.
• 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. 
• Last season, O'Brien led Hopkins and ranked fifth in the Big Ten with 1.56 caused turnovers per game.  This season, she is second on the team with 28 caused turnovers and ranks fourth in the Big Ten with 1.75 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.
• Paris Colgain is third in caused turnovers with 22 and ranks eighth in the Big Ten with 1.38 per game. Kacie Riggs and Hannah Johnson are tied for fourth with 15 each.  Both Colgain and Johnson have posted career highs in takeways this season.
• As a team, Hopkins leads the Big Ten and ranks 15th in the nation with 10.19 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.
  • 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.
  • Ava Angello led Hopkins with 40 goals last season becoming the first freshman to lead the Blue Jays in goals since 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.
  • Four Blue Jays were named to the Inside Lacrosse Midseason All-America team on March 28.
• Junior Ashley Mackin was named to the Second Team while graduate students Jennifer Barry and Madison Doucette and senior Jordan Carr were named Honorable Mention.
• Mackin ranks second on the team with 39 goals and 53 points and is fourth with 13 assists. Barry has a team-high 102 draw controls and leads the Big Ten with 6.38 draws per game. Doucette has started all 16 games in the cage and leads the B1G with 150 saves and 9.38 saves per game. Carr leads the conference with career-highs in caused turnovers (43) and ground balls (45).
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • This marks the 49th season for Johns Hopkins, which sports an all-time record of 482-316-4 (.603) and a 264-179 (.596) record as a Division I program. The Blue Jays are in their 26th season of Division I after making the move in 1999.
• The game against Maryland on April 10 was the 800th game in program history. Hopkins is just the 12th program in NCAA history, across all divisions, to play 800 games.
• The Blue Jays have posted 37 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).
  • A win at Michigan would send Hopkins to Northwestern for the Big Ten Semifinals on Thursday, May 2. The Blue Jays would face the host Wildcats in the first semifinal at 1:00 pm at Martin Stadium.
 
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