• Johns Hopkins hits the road to visit the 11th-ranked Syracuse Orange on Monday. 
• Monday's game is the third game of a four-game road swing for the Blue Jays.
• Hopkins is coming off a thrilling come-from-behind 14-13 win at 16th-ranked Stony Brook last Saturday.
• Saturday's win over the Seawolves boosted the Blue Jays' record to 4-2 on the season. It was also Hopkins' fourth one-goal game this season.
• In addition, the game at Stony Brook wrapped up a stretch of five games in just 15 days. By contrast, Hopkins will play its final 10 regular season games over a 41-day span.
  • 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 is making back-to-back trips to New York (Stony Brook, Syracuse) before heading 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 15-11 (.577) away from Homewood Field.
  • Junior Reagan O'Brien was one of 14 additions to the Tewaaraton Award Watch List it was announced on Thursday. 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 fourth in the nation with 3.33 caused turnovers per game. She also ranks second on the team and fifth in the conference with 2.33 ground balls per game. O'Brien has also notched on assist and two draw controls in six games. She is tied for sixth in Johns Hopkins history with 83 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 92 goals, 39 assists and 131 points in 42 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 109 goals, 35 assists and 144 points in 44 career games.
  • Senior Ashley Mackin was was named the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week and the IWLCA Co-Offensive Player of the Week on Tuesday. She is the first Blue Jay to be named IWLCA Offensive Player of the Week since Maggie Schneidereith on April 27, 2021. 
• Mackin totaled 10 goals, seven assists, six ground balls and two caused turnovers in a 2-0 week for Johns Hopkins. She had a career performance in a 19-10 win at Georgetown with 13 points (6 goals, 7 assists). Her seven assists and 13 points are one shy of the Johns Hopkins' all-time single-game records. In addition, the 13 points are the most in NCAA Division I since 2022. Mackin followed that with another outstanding performance, scoring four goals in Hopkins' come-from-behind win at 16th-ranked Stony Brook. Her fourth goal of the game tied the game with 2:04 to play. She leads the Blue Jays with 24 goals, 11 assists and 35 points through five games.
  • Johns Hopkins outscored host and 16th-ranked Stony Brook, 6-0, in the fourth quarter to rally for a 14-13 win Saturday afternoon. The Blue Jays win their third straight as they improve to 4-2 on the season. Ava Angello scored the game-winner with 59.5 seconds to play to cap a three-goal, three-assist day.
• Hopkins found itself trailing 13-8 heading into the fourth, but the Blue Jays needed just two minutes and four seconds to make it a two-goal game. Lacey Downey scored twice in a 24-second span, getting a pair of assists from Taylor Hoss, to make it a 13-10 game at the 14:12-mark. Just 18 seconds later, Angello took a pass from MK Lescault and went high-to-low in the slot to pull the Blue Jays within two. Angello cut the deficit in half at 5:49, when she blew home an eight-meter from the far hash with just two seconds on the possession clock. Hopkins then tied the game at 13 when Downey found Ashley Mackin wide-open in the slot, and she turned and fired home her fourth goal with 2:04 to play. Laurel Gonzalez won the ensuing draw, her 13th of the afternoon, and with 59.5 seconds left, Angello caught a pass from Lescault and went high-to-high to give JHU its first lead since the first quarter.
• Hoss opened the scoring with a free position goal at the 9:03-mark but the Seawolves answered with goals from Alexandra Fusco and Charlotte Wilmoth to go up 2-1 with 2:22 to play in the opening quarter. Just 15 seconds later, it was a 2-2 game when Mackin took a pass from Angello and flipped a shot over her shoulder and past the SBU goalie. Isabella Caporuscio converted a free position shot with 8.7 seconds left in the first to put Stony Brook back on top, 3-2, and spark a 4-0 run. Four different players scored during the run, which spanned seven minutes and saw the home team take a 6-2 lead with 8:07 to go in the half. Downey halted the run when she fired home a rocket from eight meters out off a feed from Angello at 7:10.
• Courtney McClay and Wilmoth scored back-to-back goals just 58 seconds apart to push the Seawolves' lead to 8-3 with 4:45 left. The Blue Jays then erupted for three goals in just 21 seconds to slice the deficit to two. Megan Kielbasa got things going when she picked up a loose ball in the in the slot and buried a side-arm shot at 3:21. After winning the draw, Angello found Mackin open in the middle of the fan for the score. Once again, JHU won the draw and Gonzalez fed an outlet pass to Campbell Case, who buried it from the right alley at 3:00.
• Caporuscio and Wilmoth sandwiched goals around free position scores from Charlotte Smith and Mackin and Stony Brook led 10-8 at the 6:57-mark in the third. The Seawolves then closed the third with three goals in the final 3:23 to take a 13-8 lead into the fourth.
• Angello led the Blue Jays with a game-high six points and tied her career-high with three assists. Mackin (4g) and Downey (3g, 1a) added four points each, while Downey also had four caused turnovers. Hoss (1g, 2a) and Lescault (2a) also had multi-point games. Gonzalez's 13 draws broke her own record for draws by a freshman and she now ranks second in school single-season history for draws by a freshman (57).
• The is the first time Hopkins trailed by five goals in the fourth quarter and won since April 1, 2023 when it trailed Rutgers, 11-6, and won 12-11. In addition, it is the first time JHU won in the final minute of regulation since March 7, 2021 at Ohio State, when Shelby Harrison scored a free position goal with 7.1 seconds left to win 10-9.
  • 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.
• 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.
  • Head coach Tim McCormack earned his 50th career win on February 25 in Hopkins' 19-10 win at Georgetown. Now in his sixth season overall, McCormack is 51-36 (.586).
  • Senior Ashley Mackin's 13 points (6g, 7a) at Georgetown 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. 
  • Senior Ashley Mackin opened the season with back-to-back five-goal games. She is the first Blue Jay to score at least five goals in consecutive games since Aurora Cordingley in 2021. Cordingley scored six goals against Penn State on April 7 and followed that with six goals against Rutgers on April 11.
• This is just the ninth time since 1999, that a Blue Jay has scored at least five goals in back-to-back games. 
  • 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 six games into her Hopkins' career, Downey is tied for second on the team in assists (8), third in points (17) and goals (9). She is also second in draw controls (11) and tied for third in ground balls (11).
  • 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.
  • 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 join 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 131 career points in just 42 games. Case has tallied 102 career points in 52 games. In addition, Angello has totaled 144 points in 44 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 109 goals in 44 career games.
• Senior Ashley Mackin needs just eight goals to join Angello in the 100-goal club.
  • 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 is ranked 10th in the IWLCA Coaches, eighth in the KANE Inside Lacrosse Media and 15th in the USA Lacrosse Media poll.
• The Blue Jays have been ranked 10th in each of the IWLCA polls this season and jumped three spots in the KANE IL poll. The Blue Jays also dropped two spots in the USA Lacrosse poll.
• JHU has been ranked in the IWLCA Coaches Poll for 25 consecutive weeks and in 44 of 49 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 12th toughest in the nation and its opponents are a combined 57-28 (.671) so far this season.
  • 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.
  • Hopkins and Syracuse meet for just the second time in a series that began in 2023 in the NCAA Tournament. The Orange won that meeting, 25-8, to advance to the NCAA Quarterfinals.
• This will be the Blue Jays' first game in the JMA Wireless Dome as the teams played outdoors in 2023.
  • Monday's game is the 36th game for Johns Hopkins against a current member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).
• Hopkins is 14-21 all-time against members of the ACC, with 24 of the 35 games coming against Duke (11), North Carolina (7) and Virginia (6).
• In all, the Blue Jays have faced eight of the 12 ACC schools. Now in its 27th season as a Division I program, Hopkins has yet to face Clemson, Louisville, Pitt or Virginia Tech.
  • This is Hopkins' eighth game on March 10 and just the third on the road. It is the third time the Blue Jays will take on a ranked team on this date.
• The Blue Jays are 5-2 all-time on this date, but have lost two of their last three outings on March 10. Both of its losses on this date have come by just one goal.  
                  • 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.
  • 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 then had nine draws versus Duke on February 15 and tied her record with 12 against Penn. She posted her fourth double-digit draw performance (11 DCs) in the win at Georgetown. Gonzalez then broke her own record with 13 draws at Stony Brook, one more than the Seawolves had as a team. The 13 draws are tied for second most all-time in program history and are three shy of the record.
• Gonzalez's 57 draws already rank second most by a freshman in JHU history. She needs 35 draws to break Shelby Harrison's freshman record of 91, set in 2018. In addition, her 57 draws are tied for 17th all-time in Johns Hopkins single-season history. Gonzalez currently leads the Big Ten and ranks eighth in the country with 9.50 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 March 1. 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.
  • Junior Reagan O'Brien is the Blue Jays' active leader with 83 career caused turnovers, which is tied for sixth all-time in school history. She currently leads the Big Ten and ranks third in the nation with 3.33 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. Johnson ranks second on the team in 2025 with 10 caused turnovers and now has 36 for her career. Colgain is tied for fifth with five caused turnovers and counts 46 in her career.
• As a team, Hopkins leads the Big Ten and ranks eighth in the nation with 11.67 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.
  • Hopkins has totaled 51 assists through six games, including double-digit outings in the wins over Duke (10 assists) and Georgetown (14 assists). The Blue Jays are assisting on 65.54 percent of its goals (78) this season, which ranks second in the nation. JHU leads the Big Ten and ranks sixth in the nation with 8.50 assists per game. The Blue Jays are also tied for sixth 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. 
  • 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 induced into the University's Athletic Hall of Fame in 2013.
  • The Blue Jays piled up the honors this preseason.
• Senior attacker Ashley Mackin, junior attacker Ava Angello and junior defender Reagan O'Brien were named to the Big Ten Preseason Players to Watch list. Mackin was named to both the USA Lacrosse and Inside Lacrosse Preseason All-America teams. Angello joined Mackin on the USA Lacrosse team.
• Mackin and Angello each posted career highs in goals, assists and points. Angello led the team in goals (53) and points (68) and ranked sixth in assists (15). Mackin ranked second in goals (48) and points (66) and was tied for third in assists (18).
• O'Brien ranked second on the team with 38 caused turnovers and fourth with 35 ground balls - both career highs. 
  • 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 488-320-4 (.603) and a 270-183 (.596) 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 wraps up its four-game road trip and opens up Big Ten play on Sunday, March 16 at 24th-ranked USC. Opening draw at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is slated for 1:00 pm PT.
 
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