• Johns Hopkins is back on the road to open Big Ten play at the 21st-ranked USC Trojans on Sunday afternoon. 
• Sunday's game is the fourth game of a four-game road swing for the Blue Jays.
• Hopkins is coming off a thrilling come-from-behind 14-13 overtime win at eighth-ranked Syracuse on Monday.
• Monday's win over the Orange boosted the Blue Jays' record to 5-2 on the season. It was also Hopkins' fifth one-goal game this season.
  • Hopkins kicked off a four-game road trip on February 25 that will see the Blue Jays travel nearly 6,600 miles.
• After a short trip to Georgetown, JHU made back-to-back trips to New York (Stony Brook, Syracuse) and will now head to the West Coast to open Big Ten play at USC.
• In fact, after playing three of their first four games within the friendly confines of Homewood Field, the Blue Jays will play just four of their final eight regular season games at home.
• Under head coach Tim McCormack, Hopkins is 16-11 (.592) away from Homewood Field.
  • This isn't the first time a Johns Hopkins lacrosse team will play in Los Angeles Coliseum. The last time was 1932, when the Blue Jay men's lacrosse team represented the United States at the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
• Lacrosse was a demonstration sport at the Olympics in 1932. Teams from Canada and the United States played three games, with the United States winning two of the three. Canada was represented by an all-star team, while the United States was represented by the Johns Hopkins men's lacrosse team, coached by Ray Van Orman.
• The first game on Sunday, August 7 was played on the same day as the marathon, which finished in the Coliseum. The United States won 5-3 in front of 75,000 people. Canada won the second game, 5-4, on a last second goal and the deciding game was won by the United States, 7-4.
  • Junior Reagan O'Brien was one of 14 additions to the Tewaaraton Award Watch List it was announced on March 6. She joined senior Ashley Mackin and junior Ava Angello, who were named to the initial list in February.
• O'Brien leads the Big Ten and ranks third in the nation with 3.29 caused turnovers per game. She also ranks second on the team and third in the conference with 2.29 ground balls per game. O'Brien has also notched on assist and two draw controls in seven games. She ranks sixth all-time in Johns Hopkins history with 86 career caused turnovers.
• The trio of Mackin, Angello and O'Brien are the first Blue Jays to be named to the Tewaaraton Award Watch List since 2022 and this marks the first time that three players were named to the list.
• Mackin earned preseason All-America honors from both USA Lacrosse and Inside Lacrosse in addition to being tabbed a Big Ten Player to Watch. She finished with career highs in goals (48), assists (18) and points (66) and ranked second on the team in both goals and points in 2024. Mackin has totaled 96 goals, 39 assists and 135 points in 43 career games.
• Angello was previously named to the USA Lacrosse Preseason All-America Team and a Big Ten Player to Watch. She led the Blue Jays with a career high 53 goals and 68 points in 2024. Angello has totaled 115 goals, 35 assists and 150 points in 45 career games.
  • Junior Ava Angello was was named the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week on Tuesday. This is the first weekly conference honor of her career. She is the second consecutive Blue Jay to earn the honor and third this season to be honored by the Big Ten.
• Angello led Hopkins to a come-from-behind win at eighth-ranked Syracuse on Monday afternoon. She scored six goals on just nine shots as the Blue Jays rallied from an early 6-1 deficit to win 14-13 in overtime. Three of her six goals came on free position, in a span of just three minutes and 13 seconds.
• Angello ranks second on the team with 22 goals and 29 points. She ranks fourth in the Big Ten in goals per game (3.14) and is seventh in points per game (4.14).
  • For the second time in as many games, Johns Hopkins rallied to win 14-13 on the road in New York. MK Lescault scored 70 seconds into overtime to lift Hopkins over eighth-ranked Syracuse Monday afternoon.
• The Blue Jays trailed 11-9 less than two minutes into the fourth quarter but got a pair of goals from Ashley Mackin in a 90-second span to tie the game with 7:19 to play. Sam DeVito put the Orange back on top two minutes later when she scored with just two seconds on the possession clock. Megan Kielbasa answered for Hopkins just 35 seconds after that, scoring from in-tight to tie the game at 12. Charlotte Smith then put Hopkins on top with a lefty shot from the middle of the arc with 2:23 to play.
• Syracuse battled back and tied the game with 12 seconds left on an Emma Muchnick free position goal. Hopkins won the draw to open overtime, and it was Lescault who took matters into her own hands. She dodged the left alley and picked the back post from a tough angle to win it.
• The Orange jumped out to a 3-0 lead with goals from Mileena Cotter, Caroline Trinkaus and Alexa Vogelman in the opening four minutes and six seconds. Samantha DiCarlo then got the Blue Jays on the board when she snuck an eight-meter shot inside the near post at 8:55 in the first. Vogelman netted her second of the afternoon just 15 seconds after DiCarlo's score to spark a 3-0 Syracuse run that included goals from Muchnick and Trinkaus.
• Hopkins got back on the board after a great ground ball by Kielbasa led to a Lescault solo clear. Lescault then found Mackin in the slot, and she split a double team to score on the doorstep at 3:17. That goal ignited a 5-1 Hopkins' run that saw the Blue Jays pull within one. Ava Angello fueled the run with three straight free position goals, in a span of just 3:13. After an Annie Parker goal at 8:02, the Blue Jays won the draw and Lescault hit Mackin in stride in the left alley for the score just 18 seconds later.
• Syracuse scored back-to-back goals to close the second and open the third to push its lead to 9-6. But a pair of Angello goals, including a behind-the-back beauty, sliced the deficit back to one with 5:13 to play in the third. Cotter and Trinkaus then sandwiched scores around another Angello goal and the Orange led 11-9 just 1:54 into the fourth.
• Angello led all scorers with a career-high-tying six goals, on just nine shots. Mackin added four goals while Lescault (1g, 2a) and Taylor Hoss (3a) had three points each. Laurel Gonzalez finished with a game-high nine draw controls. Hannah Johnson had a game-high four caused turnovers and Reagan O'Brien had three caused, while Morgan Giardina finished with nine saves.
• Angello reached the 150-point mark for her career with her sixth goal of the game. She is the 25th player all-time in Johns Hopkins' history to reach the mark.
  • Junior Ava Angello was the hometown hero on Monday in the come-from-behind win at Syracuse. She tied her career-high with six goals, including three free position scores, on just nine shots.
• Angello is a Manlius, NY native and grew up less than 15 miles from Syracuse University. In her career, she has played in three games at Syracuse - UMass (2023 NCAA First Round) and Syracuse (2023 NCAA Second Round, 2025 regular season). In those three games, she has totaled 12 goals and one assist.
  • Hopkins has played in three overtime games this season and won all three. The Blue Jays have never played more than three overtime games in the same season. In addition, the three overtimes wins are the most in one season.
• Hopkins has won six straight overtime games, dating back to 2023, and is 6-1 in overtime games under head coach Tim McCormack.
• At Syracuse on Monday, MK Lescault's first goal of the game was arguably the biggest of her career - it was the overtime game-winner. It was her first career overtime goal and first game-winner.
• Ashley Mackin scored the game-winner with 3:20 to play in overtime versus 12th-ranked Penn on February 22. It was her second overtime goal this season, tying the program single-season record. She previously scored the game-winner versus 25th-ranked Duke one week earlier.
• Mackin's two overtime goals are also tied for third most in a career in Johns Hopkins' history. Jamie Larrimore (1999-2002) holds the record with five.
  • For the second time this year, and fifth time under head coach Tim McCormack, Johns Hopkins trailed entering the fourth quarter and rallied to win. Three of the five wins came in overtime, including Monday's win at Syracuse.
• The last three fourth quarter/overtime comeback wins have come on the road.
• In two of the comebacks (Rutgers 2023, Stony Brook 2025), Hopkins shutout the opponent in the fourth quarter. And in each of those games, the Blue Jays outscored their opponent 6-0 in the fourth.
  • In the season opener versus Florida, senior Ashley Mackin became the 32nd player in school Division I history, and 49th all-time, to notch 100 career points. She entered the game with 96 career points and went on to score a game-high five goals versus the Gators.
• At Georgetown, graduate student Campbell Case totaled four points (2g, 2a) to become the 50th player all-time with 100 career points. The milestone came with an assist at the 4:39-mark in the third.
• Mackin and Angello joined junior Ava Angello in the 100-point club. This marks the second straight season and 14th time overall that JHU has had at least three players on the same team with 100 career points. 
• Mackin now boasts 135 career points in just 43 games. Case has tallied 102 career points in 53 games and Angello has totaled 150 points in 45 games.
  • At Loyola, junior Ava Angello became just the 16th player in school Division I history (since 1999) to score 100 career goals. She reached the milestone in highlight-reel fashion with a behind-the-back shovel shot versus the Greyhounds. Angello is the first Blue Jay to reach the milestone since Shelby Harrison in 2022.
• In Johns Hopkins' history (since 1976), she is the 30th player to have scored at least 100 goals in their career.
• Angello has now scored 115 goals in 45 career games.
• Senior Ashley Mackin needs just four goals to join Angello in the 100-goal club. This would mark the ninth time in program history that JHU had two players with 100 or more career goals on the same team. It would be sixth time that two or more players scored their 100th goal in the same season.
  • Senior Ashley Mackin's 13 points (6g, 7a) at Georgetown on February 25 tied the Johns Hopkins' Division I record, set by Mary Key (6g, 7a) versus Oregon in 2007. In addition, it is one shy of Alice Collins' all-time record of 14 (12g, 2a), set against Widener in 1987.
• Mackin's 13 points are the most in the nation since April 30, 2022, when Vanderbilt's Gabby Formia had 13 points (3g, 10a) versus Cincinnati. The 13 points are also four shy of the NCAA Division I record.
• There have been 26 13-point performances in NCAA Division I history. In just nine of those games, including Mackin's, did the player have at least six goals and six assists. 
  • Hopkins is ranked 10th in the IWLCA Coaches Poll, seventh in the KANE Inside Lacrosse Media and 14th in the USA Lacrosse Media poll.
• The Blue Jays have been ranked 10th in each of the IWLCA polls this season and jumped one spot in both the KANE IL and USA Lacrosse polls.
• JHU has been ranked in the IWLCA Coaches Poll for 26 consecutive weeks and in 45 of 50 polls under head coach Tim McCormack.
• Twelve of the Blue Jays' 2025 opponents are ranked in the IWLCA and KANE Inside Lacrosse polls and 11 are ranked by USA Lacrosse. Hopkins' schedule is the sixth toughest in the nation and its opponents are a combined 73-33 (.689) so far this season.
  • Sophomore Lacey Downey had an impressive debut for the Blue Jays in the season-opener versus the Florida Gators. Making her first career start, the transfer midfielder led the team with three ground balls and finished second in points (2g, 1a), caused turnovers (2) and draw controls (2).
• Just seven games into her Hopkins' career, Downey is third on the team in goals (9), assists (10) and points (19). She is also second in draw controls (12) and third in ground balls (13) and caused turnovers (8).
  • Johns Hopkins has been picked to finish tied for third in the Big Ten in a preseason vote of the league's head coaches.
• Defending B1G champion Northwestern is the preseason favorite to win the title in 2025. Michigan is second with Hopkins and Maryland tied for third. Penn State is picked fourth, followed by USC, Ohio State, Rutgers and Oregon.
• The top seven teams will make the Big Ten Tournament with the top team in the final league standings earning a bye into the semifinals. The teams that finish second through seventh will play quarterfinal games on Wednesday, April 23. The semifinals are set for Friday, April 25 with the championship game scheduled for Sunday, April 27. Maryland will host all three rounds of the tournament.
  • Hopkins and USC meet for just the second time in a series that began in 2025. JHU won that meeting, 13-10, at Homewood.
• The Blue Jays and the Trojans are meeting for the first time as conference opponents.
  • Sunday's game is the 128th game for Johns Hopkins against a current member of the Big Ten (B1G).
• Hopkins is 51-76 all-time against members of the B1G, including 17-19 in regular season games since joining the conference in 2017.
  • Johns Hopkins has held opponents scoreless for 10 or more minutes, seven times this season. In addition, three of those seven scoreless streaks are at least 15 minutes.
• Under head coach Tim McCormack, Hopkins has held its opponent scoreless for 15 or more minutes, 23 times.
• In the game at Stony Brook, JHU held the Seawolves scoreless for the fourth quarter as the Blue Jays rallied to win, 14-13. It was the ninth time under McCormack that the Blue Jays shutout an opponent for a quarter. In fact, it was the third time that Hopkins has done so in the fourth quarter.
  • This is Hopkins' 11th game on March 16 and the seventh on the road. It is the third time the Blue Jays will take on a ranked team on this date.
• The Blue Jays are 6-4 all-time on this date, including four one-goal games.  
                  • This is just the fifth trip to the West Coast, and first since 2009, for Hopkins in its 50-year history.
• Hopkins played at Cal (W, 13-0) and at Stanford (W, 14-8) in 1999. JHU then returned in 2008, beating Oregon, 10-9, in Carlsbad, CA. One year later, the Blue Jays visited the Ducks in Eugene, with Oregon winning 12-10.
  • Hopkins brought back more than 66 percent of its goals (170 of 258) but only 41 percent of its assists (66 of 161) in 2025. The Blue Jays returned their top three goal scorers and 11 of the 17 players that scored at least one goal last season.
• JHU boasted a balanced attack in 2024 as four players scored at least 28 goals and six had at least 40 points. It was the first time in program history that Blue Jays had six players with 40 or more points. In addition, it was the first time Hopkins had two players - Ava Angello (68) and Ashley Mackin (66) with 60 or more points since 2019. 
• So far this season, 12 Blue Jays have notched at least one point and 10 have scored at least one goal. In addition, nine of the 11 have at least one goal and one assist. 
• In addition to Angello and Mackin, Bailey Cheetham (14g, 35a), Campbell Case (32g, 16a), Maeve Barker (28g, 18a) and Abbey Hurlbrink (19g, 22a) also eclipsed the 40-point mark.
  • Graduate student Campbell Case, senior Ashley Mackin and junior Hannah Johnson have been selected as captains for the 2025 season.
• Case played in all 20 games on attack last season, finishing with 32 goals, 16 assists, 48 points and 12 ground balls. She ranked third on the team in goals and fourth in points. In addition, Case notched at least one point in 19 of 20 games last season.
• A year ago, Mackin finished second on the team in goals (48) and points (66) and was tied for third in assists (18). She had 11 hat tricks in 19 games and notched at least one point in 18 of 19 games in 2024.
• Johnson started all 20 games on defense and finished with career highs of 19 caused turnovers and 23 ground balls. She ranked fourth on the team in caused turnovers last season.
  • Hopkins entered the season looking to replace 86 percent of its draw controls from 2024. The Blue Jays seem to have found the answer in freshman draw specialist Laurel Gonzalez. In the season opener, she outdrew Florida all on her own, as she controlled 12 draws to the Gators' seven. As a team, Hopkins outdrew Florida, 15-7. Gonzalez's 12 draws broke the program record for draws by a freshman and were four shy of the overall single-game record.
• Gonzalez has posted four double-digit draw performance this season. After a pair of 12-draw outings, she broke her own record with 13 draws at Stony Brook. It was the second time she outdrew Hopkins' opponent. The 13 draws against the Seawolves are tied for second most all-time in program history and are three shy of the record.
• Gonzalez's 66 draws already rank second most by a freshman in JHU history. She needs 26 draws to break Shelby Harrison's freshman record of 91, set in 2018. In addition, her 66 draws are tied for eighth all-time in Johns Hopkins single-season history. Gonzalez currently leads the Big Ten and ranks seventh in the country with 9.43 draws per game.
• Hopkins controlled 20 draws in the overtime win versus Penn on February 22, the most in a game since JHU had 23 in a win over James Madison on March 30, 2024. Hopkins followed that with 20 draws in the win at Georgetown on February 25. The 20 draws are also tied for the eighth most in a game in program history.
• Hopkins had a lot to replace in the center circle with the graduation of Jennifer Barry, Abbey Hurlbrink and Jordan Carr. The trio alone combined for 233 draws - 79.5 percent of JHU's 293 total draws. In total, Hopkins graduated 86 percent (252) of its draws from 2024.
• Barry broke the program single-season record with 133 draws last season. A graduate transfer who spent one season with the Blue Jays, she also ranks ninth in career draws. Hurlbrink finished her career ranked seventh in school history with 158 career draws.
• Hopkins did get senior Annie Marshall back after she missed last season with an injury. She led the team with 87 draw controls as a sophomore in 2023 and is currently 13th in school Division I history with 101 career draws. Marshall needs 27 draws to move into the top-10.
•  As a team, JHU ranked third in the Big Ten with 14.65 draws per game in 2024. That is the best per game average in school history. In addition, the Blue Jays broke the single-season record with 293 draw controls.
• Hopkins posted two of the top-three single-game draw performances in school Division I history last year. Hopkins controlled 23 draws in the win over James Madison on March 30 and had 22 in the win over Siena on February 11. The school single-game record is 26, set against Old Dominion in 2013.
  • Hopkins has totaled 59 assists through seven games, including double-digit outings in the wins over Duke (10 assists) and Georgetown (14 assists). The Blue Jays are assisting on 64.13 percent of its goals (92) this season, which ranks second in the nation by teams scoring atleast 25 goals. JHU leads the Big Ten and ranks seventh in the nation with 8.43 assists per game. The Blue Jays are also tied for 10th in total assists.
• JHU's 14 assists at Georgetown on February 25 are the most this season and are tied for second most in school history. The Blue Jays have handed out 10 or more assists in a game nine times under head coach Tim McCormack and set the school record with 16 against James Madison in 2024.
• Hopkins set the school record with 161 assists and 8.05 assists per game last season. In fact, JHU broke the single-season record by 31 assists. In addition, the Blue Jays led the Big Ten and ranked seventh in the nation in assists per game.
• Hopkins assisted on 62.40 percent of its goals (258g, 161a) last season. That was the highest assist-to-goal ratio in the nation and the best in program history. 
  • Junior Reagan O'Brien is the Blue Jays' active leader with 86 career caused turnovers, which ranks sixth all-time in school history. She currently leads the Big Ten and ranks third in the nation with 3.29 caused turnovers per game. Last season, O'Brien ranked second on the team with 38 caused turnovers, the third highest single-season total in program history.
• O'Brien wasted no time in making her mark on the Blue Jay defense in 2023, her freshman season. She notched three caused turnovers and three ground balls in her collegiate debut versus UAlbany and led the team with 25 caused turnovers in 2023. The 25 caused turnovers were fifth most by a freshman in school history.
• O'Brien tied the program single-game record for caused turnovers by a freshman when she had six takeaways at Loyola.
• Senior Paris Colgain finished third on the team in caused turnovers (25) and junior Hannah Johnson ranked fourth (19) last season. Both totals were career highs. This season, Johnson ranks second on the team with 13 caused turnovers and now has 39 for her career. Colgain is tied for fourth with six caused turnovers and counts 47 in her career. Colgain needs two caused turnovers to break into the top-25 all-time in program history.
• As a team, Hopkins leads the Big Ten and ranks eighth in the nation with 11.57 caused turnovers per game. Last season, JHU led the Big Ten and ranked seventh in the nation with 10.65 caused turnovers per game. The Blue Jays' 213 caused turnovers in 2024 were the fifth most in school Division I history.
  • In 2024, Ava Angello reached the 40-goal mark for the second straight season. She scored 40 goals in her freshman season (2023) and followed that with 53 goals last year.
• Angello is the first Blue Jay 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 50-year history of the program, she is the 12th player with consecutive 40-goal seasons.
  • Athletics at Johns Hopkins is a family affair and this year's team is no different.
• Junior defender Reagan O'Brien and senior defender Quinlan O'Brien are the 13th pair of sisters to don the Hopkins Blue & Black.
• Junior goalie Morgan Giardina is following in the footsteps of her father, Scott Giardina. He was a two-time All-American goalie and led the Blue Jays to the NCAA Semifinals as a senior in 1992.
• New to the Blue Jays is freshman Emmy Haugen, the daughter of Hopkins midfielder AJ Haugen. A three-time first team All-American, Haugen graduated from JHU in 2000 and was inducted into the University's Athletic Hall of Fame in 2013.
  • Johns Hopkins head coach Tim McCormack and junior defender Reagan O'Brien won gold last summer with the US Women's U20 National Team at the World Lacrosse Championships in Hong Kong, China. McCormack was named an assistant coach in May 2023.
• The US women have now won six of the eight world championships conducted by World Lacrosse from 1995 to 2024. World Lacrosse adjusted the age groupings for the 2024 championship up to the U20 age level.
• McCormack and O'Brien weren't the only Blue Jays in Hong Kong last summer as junior midfielder Jillian McNaughton took home silver as a member of Team Canada.
  • Head coach Tim McCormack announced in December that Nicole Graziano and Dorrien Van Dyke had each been promoted to Associate Head Coach. The pair came to Homewood in June 2022 when McCormack was named the fourth head coach in program history.
• Graziano will continue in her role as Offensive Coordinator while Van Dyke will continue as the Blue Jays' Defensive Coordinator. The duo helped Johns Hopkins to a 12-8 record and a second straight trip to the NCAA Sweet 16. The Blue Jays' 12 wins are the most in a season since 2015.
• Graziano's offense broke multiple school records in 2024, including for points (419), points per game (20.95), goals (258), assists (161), assists per game (8.05) and assist-to-goal ratio (.624). The Blue Jays led the nation in assist-to-goal ratio and were the only team to assist on more than 59 percent of its goals. Hopkins led the Big Ten, and ranked seventh in the nation, in assists per game. JHU also ranked second in the league in points per game and goals per game.
• Facing the second toughest schedule in the nation in 2024, Van Dyke's defense led the Big Ten and ranked seventh in the nation in caused turnovers per game (10.65). In addition, the squad's 213 total caused turnovers rank as the fifth most in program history. Hopkins led the conference and ranked 16th in the nation in ground balls per game (18.45). The Blue Jays also ranked fourth in the Big Ten in scoring defense (10.76), the lowest goals against average since 2018.
  • Johns Hopkins will play at least one game on every day of the week during the regular season.
• JHU will play four games each on Saturday and Sunday, in addition the Blue Jays will play two games on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
• Hopkins will also play one game each on Monday (Syracuse - March 10) and Friday (Florida - February 7).
  • Hopkins will play four nationally televised regular season games in 2025. JHU will face Syracuse (March 10), Rutgers (March 23) and Penn State (April 16) on ESPNU. In addition, the Blue Jays will take on the host Ohio State Buckeyes (April 10) on the Big Ten Network.
• The Big Ten Semifinals and Championship games will be televised on the Big Ten Network.
  • This marks the 50th season for Johns Hopkins, which sports an all-time record of 489-320-4 (.604) and a 271-183 (.597) record as a Division I program. The Blue Jays are in their 27th season of Division I after making the move in 1999.
• The game against Maryland on April 10, 2024, was the 800th game in program history. Hopkins became just the 12th program in NCAA history, across all divisions, to play 800 games.
• The Blue Jays have posted 38 winning seasons, including 21 straight from 1987 to 2007. Hopkins has also made 21 NCAA Tournament appearances, including 12 in the Division I Tournament (2004, 2005, 2007, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024).
  • Johns Hopkins finally returns to Homewood Field on Sunday, March 23 to take on Rutgers. Opening draw for the Big Ten contest is slated for 11:00 am.
 
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