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Women's Lacrosse Jill Guise - Assistant Director of Athletic Communications

Johns Hopkins-Maryland Women's Lacrosse Game Notes

OPENING DRAW
• Johns Hopkins is back at Homewood Field to kick off a two-game home stand against a pair of top-10 teams. The Blue Jays open the stand against the fourth-ranked Maryland Terps on Wednesday night.
• The Blue Jays are coming off a 13-12 come-from-behind overtime win at Rutgers on Saturday night. The win pushed JHU's record to 10-3 overall.
 
THE HOME STRETCH
• Hopkins enters the home stretch as there are just three games left in the regular season. The Blue Jays will play two of the three games at Homewood Field.
• Hopkins is 270-134-2 (.667) all-time at Homewood Field, including 152-77 (.663) since moving to Division I in 1999.
 
I'M HONORED
Senior Jordan Carr was named the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week on Tuesday for the third time this season.
• Carr totaled four caused turnovers, three draw controls, three ground balls and an assist in Hopkins' come-from-behind win at Rutgers Saturday.
• Carr leads the Blue Jays and the Big Ten and ranks 12th in the nation with 2.31 caused turnovers per game. She is also tied for the B1G lead with 2.46 ground balls per game.
 
IN APRIL
The Blue Jays are 231-163-2 (.585) all-time in the month of April, including 5-2 under head coach Tim McCormack.
• JHU is 79-65 (.548) in April since moving to Division I in 1999. Hopkins has won 10 of its last 13 games in April.
 
POLL POSITION 
• Hopkins is ranked eighth in this week's IL Women/IWLCA Poll with 332 points. JHU is also ranked eighth in the USA Lacrosse Poll this week.
• The Blue Jays are ranked in the top-10 in the IWLCA Poll for four consecutive weeks for the first time since the end of the 2014 regular season. JHU was ranked seventh on April 14, ninth on April 21, eighth on April 28 and then seventh on May 5. There have been 320 polls since the start of the 1999 season (when Hopkins moved to Division I). This is the 31st time in 320 polls that JHU has been ranked in the top-10.
• JHU has been ranked in each of the last 16 IL Women/IWLCA polls and 25 of the last 29 polls.
• Nine of the Blue Jays' 2024 opponents are ranked in the IL Women/IWLCA poll, including four of the top-10 (Northwestern, Maryland, Michigan, Loyola).
• Hopkins boasts the second toughest schedule in the nation as the Blue Jays' 2024 opponents sport a combined win percentage of .698 (134-58). JHU is also third in the nation in RPI.
 
LAST TIME OUT
Bailey Cheetham scored with 1:30 left in overtime to lift Johns Hopkins to a 13-12 comeback win at Rutgers Saturday night.
• Cheetham's only goal of the game gave the Blue Jays their first lead of the day as they rallied from a 12-9 deficit with under two minutes to play. Back-to-back goals by Michelle Warren and Cassidy Spilis gave the Scarlet Knights a three-goal cushion with 2:31 to play. But Hopkins wasn't done. Maeve Barker scored her career-best fifth goal of the game at 1:49 to spark the late rally. Marielle McAteer scored twice in a 32-second span and just like that it was a tie game with 43 ticks on the clock.
• After both teams got stops on defense in overtime, it was Cheetham, who had two assists on the day, that came up with the winner. She took a pass from Ava Angello at the top of the fan and dodged the right alley before firing a shot over the head of Rutgers' goalie Sophia Cardello to cap the comeback.
• Barker put the Blue Jays on the board just 2:01 into the first as they capitalized on a Kacie Riggs' takeaway. The Scarlet Knights answered with five straight goals to take a 5-1 lead after the first. Angello scored back-to-back goals to open the second to pull Hopkins back within two at the 9:19-mark. The teams traded goals over a four-minute span and it was 7-5 with three minutes to play in the second. Rutgers pushed its lead back to four with back-to-back goals before a Barker buzzer-beater made it 9-6 at the half.
• After a scoreless third quarter for both teams, the Blue Jays used a 3-1 spurt over a seven-minute span to pull within 10-9 with 5:08 to play. The Scarlet Knights answered with a pair of goals to push out to a 12-9 lead with just 2:31 on the clock.
• Barker led the Blue Jays with her career-high five goals, while McAteer and Angello had four points (3g, 1a) each. McAteer's three goals and four points are both career-bests, while Angello reached the 100-point mark for her career. Cheetham (1g, 2a) and Campbell Case (1g, 1a) also had multi-point games. Abbey Hurlbrink and Jennifer Barry had six draw controls each as the Blue Jays dominated the draw, 19-9. Jordan Carr had four caused turnovers while Riggs finished with three for the defense. Carr also had a team-high three ground balls.
• This was the second time in the last three meetings with Rutgers that Hopkins trailed by at least four goals and won. It was also the first time that Blue Jays trailed at halftime and came back to win since April 18, 2023. Hopkins trailed Towson, 7-5, at the half and went on to win 13-12 in overtime at Homewood Field. 
 
SIX-POINT OUTINGS
• Sophomore Ava Angello (6g, 2a) and graduate student Maeve Barker (4g, 2a) each turned in 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 440, 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.
• It is Angello's second game this season with at least six points as she had three goals and three assists in the win at Siena on February 11. Four Blue Jays have combined for five six-point outings this season. In addition to Mackin and Angello (2 games), Ashley Mackin and Abbey Hurlbrink have also had a game with at least six points this season. 
 
FIVE GOAL, FIVE ASSIST GAMES
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 Orgeon.
 
CENTURY CLUB
• Sophomore Ava Angello tallied the 100th point of her career with her assist on Bailey Cheetham's overtime winner at Rutgers last Saturday. 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 75 goals and 25 assists in 31 career games. Hurlbrink has 69 goals and 34 assists to her credit in 65 career games. The pair join graduate student Maeve Barker (143 career points), as current members of the 100-point club.
• Graduate student Bailey Cheetham needs just nine points 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.
 
IL MIDSEASON ALL-AMERICANS
• 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 33 goals and 46 points and is third with 13 assists. Barry has a team-high 92 draw controls and leads the Big Ten with 7.08 draws per game. Doucette has started all 13 games in the cage and ranks second in the B1G with 115 saves. Carr leads the conference with career-highs in caused turnovers (31) and ground balls (31).
 
HALL OF FAMER
• 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.
 
ON THE OFFENSIVE
• 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 47 points and ranks eighth in the Big Ten with 3.62 points per game. Mackin ranks second on the team with 46 points and is sixth in the conference in points per game (3.83). Senior Campbell Case ranks third on the team with 35 points, while graduate student Bailey Cheetham is fourth (34) and Hurlbrink is fifth (33). Nine Blue Jays have now reached double digits in points, with six of those eclipsing the 30-point mark.
• Angello also leads the team with 35 goals and ranks 10th in the Big Ten with 2.69 goals per game. Mackin ranks second with 33 goals and is ninth in the conference with 2.75 goals per game.  Her 33 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 (24) while graduate student Maeve Barker is fourth (21) and senior Marielle McAteer is fifth (16). Seven Blue Jays have reached double digits in goals through 13 games. In addition, 17 players have scored at least one goal and 10 of the 17 have at least five goals.
• As a team, Hopkins ranks second in the Big Ten, and 21st in the nation, in scoring offense with 14.46 goals per game. The Blue Jays' 14.46 goals per game would be a school single-season record, besting the mark of 13.79 (1999). In addition, Hopkins ranks second in the Big Ten and 11th in the nation with 23.31 points per game. The Blue Jays 303 points so far this season are tied for 10th most in school single-season history. The 23.31 points per game is currently the best in school history. The 2006 squad set the mark with 20.50 points per game.
 
BRING BACK THE O
• 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.
 
LENDING A HAND
• Hopkins leads the Big Ten and ranks fifth in the nation with 8.85 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 8.85 assists per game would be the best average in program history.
• In addition, the 115 assists are already tied for the third best single-season total in school history. The Blue Jays totaled a school-record 16 assists in the win over James Madison. It is the fourth double-digit assist game of the season for JHU.
• Hopkins is assisting on 61.17 percent of its goals (188g, 115a) through 13 games this season, the highest assist-to-goal ratio in program history. The Blue Jays also lead the Big Ten and rank second in the nation in assisted goals.
• Sixteen Blue Jays have notched at least one assist this season, led by Bailey Cheetham (24), Abbey Hurlbrink (18), Ashley Mackin (13), Ava Angello (12), Campbell Case (11) and Maeve Barker (10). Cheetham ranks third in the Big Ten with 2.18 assists per game, Hurlbrink ranks eighth (1.38) and Mackin is 10th (1.08).
• Cheetham's 24 assists are a career high and are tied for the 13th most in school single-season history.
• 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.
• Barker led the team with 21 assists last season and is JHU's active career leader with 55 career assists. She is tied for 10th in school Division I history in career assists. Case and Cheetham were tied for second with 19 assists each in 2023.
• Angello (13), Hurlbrink (11) and Mackin (10) also reached double digits in assists last season.
• Cheetham has totaled 52 career assists, the most by a midfielder in school Division I history. Hurlbrink is fifth with 34 career assists by a midfielder. Her 18 assists this season are a career high, surpassing her total (11) from last year (18 games).
 
IN THE CREASE
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 13 games this season for the Blue Jays and ranks second in the Big Ten in saves (115) and is third in saves per game (8.85). She also ranks 19th in the nation in total saves.
• Doucette ranks 14th among active Division I goalies in career saves with 451. Just 14 games into her career in the Hopkins Blue & Black, she already ranks 13th in school Division I history in career saves.
• Doucette is also tied for first in the Big Ten, with senior Jordan Carr, in ground balls with 2.46 per game.
 
IN THE CIRCLE - PART I
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.
• At the time, 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 ranks eighth in JHU history with 143 career draws. Ava Angello finished third on the team with 30 draw controls, which ranks 10th among freshman in program history.
 
IN THE CIRCLE - PART II
• 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. 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 leads all active players in the nation, and ranks 12th in NCAA Division I history, with 470 career draw controls. She is averaging 7.58 draws per game for her career, the best per game average among all active players. Barry's per game average ranks seventh in NCAA Division I history.
• Barry leads the Blue Jays and the Big Ten in draws (92) and draws per game (7.08). Nationally, she ranks 15th in draws per game. In fact, her 92 draws already rank second in school single-season history and she needs just 11 draws to tie Dene DiMartino's record of 103 (2016). Abbey Hurlbrink ranks second on the team with 37 draws and Jordan Carr is third with a career-high 31 draws.
 
IN THE CIRCLE - PART III
•  As a team, Hopkins ranks second in the Big Ten and 21st in the nation in draws per game (15.85). The 15.85 draws per game is the best average in school history. Hopkins wins 56.4 percent of draw controls, which ranks fourth in the Big Ten. It is also tied for the third best draw control percentage in JHU single-season 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. It was the third time in the last two seasons that the Blue Jays have had at least 22 draws in a game. 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 last Saturday, JHU outdrew Rutgers, 19-9.
• 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.
 
AGAINST THE TERPS
• Hopkins takes on Maryland for the 26th time since the series began in 1979. The teams didn't meet again until 2000, the Blue Jays' second season in Division I. The Blue Jays and Terps met every year from 2000 to 2009 before the series took a six-year hiatus.
• The series resumed in 2015 and the teams have meet 14 times since then, including five post-season meetings.
• Maryland has won every meeting in the series and is 7-0 against JHU in regular season Big Ten games.
 
TAKEAWAYS
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 13 games this season, she boasts 31 caused turnovers, 32 ground balls and 31 draws - all career highs. Carr leads the Big Ten and ranks 12th in the nation with 2.31 caused turnovers per game. Her 31 caused turnovers are tied for sixth most in school single-season history and she now ranks 17th in JHU history with 53 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 21 caused turnovers and ranks seventh in the Big Ten with 1.54 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 16 and Hannah Johnson is fourth with a career-high 12 caused turnovers.
• As a team, Hopkins ranks second in the Big Ten and 20th in the nation with 9.92 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.
 
D GOALS
• 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 (see chart at right). 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.
 
IT'S BEEN A WHILE
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.
 
FOR OPENERS
• 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.
 
AROUND THE BIG TEN
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).
 
PRESEASON HONORS
• 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.
 
OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN 
• 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.
 
ROSTER BREAKDOWN
• 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).  
 
WELCOME TO HOMEWOOD - PART I
• 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).
 
WELCOME TO HOMEWOOD - PART II
• 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.
 
IT'S A FAMILY AFFAIR
• 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.
 
2024 U20 WOMEN'S NATIONAL TEAM
• 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.
 
ON THE TUBE
• 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. 
 
FOR THE RECORD
• This marks the 49th season for Johns Hopkins, which sports an all-time record of 482-313-4 (.605) and a 264-176 (.600) record as a Division I program. The Blue Jays are in their 26th season of Division I after making the move in 1999.
• Wednesday's game against Maryland will be the 800th game in program history.
• 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).
 
IT'S ALL ACADEMIC
• 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.
 
ON TAP
• Hopkins returns to Homewood Field on Sunday, April 14 to take on fourth-ranked Michigan.
• Opening draw for the Big Ten game is slated for 12:00 pm. 
• The Blue Jays will honor their seniors and graduate students after the game versus the Wolverines.
 
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Morgan Giardina

#14 Morgan Giardina

5' 6"
Sophomore
GK
Georgie Gorelick

#3 Georgie Gorelick

5' 6"
Senior
Mid.
Abbey Hurlbrink

#28 Abbey Hurlbrink

5' 9"
Senior
Mid.
Hannah Johnson

#23 Hannah Johnson

5' 9"
Sophomore
Mid.