• Johns Hopkins returns to College Park for the third straight game to take on third-ranked and top-seeded Northwestern in the Big Ten semifinals on Friday afternoon. 
• Hopkins is coming off a 13-8 win over fourth-seeded Penn State on Wednesday in the Big Ten quarterfinals. 
• Wednesday's win pushed the Blue Jays' record to 12-5 overall. The 12 wins match last year's squad that finished 12-8. It is the first time JHU has had back-to-back double-digit win seasons since 2018 (10) and 2019 (10).
• Hopkins' five Big Ten wins this year are the most conference wins since 2021, when JHU went 7-5. The B1G played a double round robin that season due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
  • Johns Hopkins finished the regular season with a 5-3 record and in a three-way tie for third place with Michigan and Penn State. The Blue Jays were picked to finish in a tie for third in the preseason coaches' poll.
• Based on goal differential, the Wolverines grabbed the number three seed, the Nittany Lions the four seed and the Blue Jays the five seed.
• Hopkins advances to the semifinals and will take on top-seeded Northwestern for the second straight year.
• Hopkins improved to 2-0 against Penn State in the Big Ten Tournament with Wednesday's win.
• Friday's game will be just the second meeting between the Blue Jays and the Wildcats in the Big Ten Tournament. Northwestern won the first meeting, 13-12, last year in Evanston.  
• JHU is 3-6 all-time in the Big Ten Tournament, including 3-1 in quarterfinal games but 0-5 in the semifinals. In addition, the Blue Jays are 2-1 as the number five seed.
  • Laurel Gonzalez was named the Big Ten Freshman of the Week on Monday for the third time this season. She totaled three goals, one ground ball and 14 draw controls last week.
• Gonzalez scored a career-high two goals and controlled four draws in a come-from-behind overtime win versus Penn State on Wednesday. She then controlled 11 draws, one more than Maryland had as a team, to go with a goal and a ground ball in the two-goal loss at Maryland. Gonzalez's 11th draw was her 134th of the season, breaking the school single-season record.
  • Ashley Mackin was named one of 25 nominees for the 2025 Tewaaraton Award. She is the first Blue Jay to be named a finalist for the Tewaaraton since Dene' DiMartino in 2016 and is just the fifth all-time.
• Mackin ranks third in the Big Ten and 17th in the nation in goals (55) and is fourth in the B1G and 22nd nationally in points (73). Her goal, assist (18) and point totals are all career highs.
• Mackin's 73 points are tied for eighth school Division I single-season history and her 55 goals are tied for fifth most. Her 4.58 goals per game is the highest per game average in Johns Hopkins history and her 6.08 points are the second highest average. Mackin ranks 13th in school Division I history in career points (169), 11th in goals (123) and tied for 17th in assists (46). 
  • The semifinal game on Friday will be the fifth time in the last six games that Hopkins will play away from Homewood Field. The Blue Jays opened the season by playing three of their first four at Homewood Field. Since then, Hopkins played at home just four times in the last 14 games.
• JHU had a four-game road trip earlier this season during which the Blue Jays traveled nearly 6,600 miles. Hopkins began that road swing with a short trip to Georgetown on February 25. JHU then made back-to-back trips to New York (Stony Brook, Syracuse) before heading to the West Coast to open Big Ten play at USC.
• Under head coach Tim McCormack, Hopkins is 19-13 (.594) away from Homewood Field.
  • Just one week after Johns Hopkins came from behind to beat Penn State in overtime, the Blue Jays went wire-to-wire in a 13-8 win over the Nittany Lions in the Big Ten Quarterfinals.
• Hopkins grabbed an early 2-0 lead with goals from Samantha DiCarlo and Megan Kielbasa in a 36-second span. DiCarlo opened the scoring at 13:47 when she went coast-to-coast after a Penn State turnover and fired home a shot from the left alley. After winning the draw, Taylor Hoss found Kielbasa wide open on the crease and she turned and scored. Erika Ho answered with an eight-meter goal at 5:47 to get the Nittany Lions on the board.
• Ava Angello pushed the lead back to three less than 80 seconds later when she caught a pass from Laurel Gonzalez, hitched and went low on Sydney Manning. Hopkins opened the second quarter with a stop on defense and then got a DiCarlo goal off a Charlotte Smith helper to put JHU up 4-1. Ho and Payton Wainman scored back-to-back goals in a 57-second span to pull back within one at 11:30. The score would remain 4-3 until the waning seconds of the quarter when Campbell Case was on the receiving end of some quick passing, scoring from the doorstep to send Hopkins into the half with a 5-3 lead.
• Emma Kelly and Brooke Hoss sandwiched goals around a strike from Lacey Downey to open the third to once again make it a one-goal game. Smith answered with a goal off the dodge at 12:22 to spark a three-goal Blue Jay run as they pushed out to a 9-5 lead late in the quarter. Kielbasa and Downey scored twice just 34 seconds apart, off a pair of helpers from Hoss, to give the Blue Jays that four-goal cushion.
• Penn State wasn't going away however as a Brooke Long goal with 2:06 left in the third ignited a 3-1 Nittany Lions' spurt as they pulled within two. Hoss hit a cutting Angello in the slot to open the fourth quarter scoring. Maggie Rezza and Delaney Radin followed with back-to-back goals and Hopkins led 10-8 with 9:03 to play.
• It was all Hopkins for the final nine minutes as the Blue Jays closed the game on a 3-0 run. The JHU defense held Penn State to just two shots and forced four turnovers in those final nine minutes. Hopkins answered Radin's goal with a Case goal off a failed Penn State clear at 3:57. Just 46 seconds later, Hoss scored off a dodge from behind to make it a four-goal game. Hoss made it two in a row when she got open in front and fired home a feed from Smith.
• Hoss finished with a game-high four assists and six points and now has 22 points in her last five games. Angello added two goals and three assists while Smith had a three-point (1g, 2a) effort. Case, DiCarlo, Kielbasa and Downey all had two-goal games. Reagan O'Brien led the defense with a school-record 10 caused turnovers, to go with a career-best eight ground balls. Hannah Johnson had four ground balls and caused a turnover. Morgan Giardina made a career-high 11 saves and Gonzalez finished with a game-high seven draw controls.
  • Ashley Mackin and Ava Angello have both eclipsed the 70-point mark this season. Angello has notched 76 points (54g, 22a) and Mackin has tallied 73 points (55g, 18a). It is the first time two Blue Jays have scored 70 or more points in the same season in school Division I history (since 1999).
• The last time two players scored 70 or more points in JHU history was in 1996, when the Blue Jays were Division III. That season Francine Brennan finished with 78 points and Jenn Ward totaled 71. In fact, it is just the fourth time all-time in school history that two players have reached the 70-point mark.
• In addition, it is just the fourth time ever that the Blue Jays have had two players with 50 or more goals. It is the first time it has happened since 2000, when Danielle Maschuci and Jamie Larrimore scored 59 goals each.
  • 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 Case joined junior Ava Angello in the 100-point club. Angello reached the mark versus Rutgers last season. 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 169 career points in 49 games. Case has tallied 118 career points in 62 games and Angello has totaled 197 points in 55 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 now has 147 goals in 55 career games.
• Senior Ashley Mackin joined Angello in the 100-goal club at USC. She entered the game with 96 career goals and reached the milestone just 12:15 into the game. Mackin now has 123 goals in 49 career games.
• This is the ninth time in program history that JHU has two players with 100 or more career goals on the same team. It is also the sixth time that two or more players scored their 100th goal in the same season.
  • Junior Reagan O'Brien caused four turnovers in the win at James Madison on March 26 to become only the fourth player in program history with 100 career caused turnovers. She now has a school-record 78 on the season and 141 in her career. O'Brien is just four caused turnovers shy of tying Moira Muthig's (Manhattan) NCAA record of 82, set in 2000.
• O'Brien smashed the school single-game record with 10 caused turnovers in the win over Penn State on Wednesday. She had previously been tied for the school record of seven caused turnovers with Keegan Barger. 
• O'Brien ranks fourth among active players in NCAA Division I with her 141 career caused turnovers. She is just five caused turnovers shy of tying Lacey Leigh Hentz's Johns Hopkins' career record of 145.
• In addition to breaking the single game caused turnover record, O'Brien also picked up a career-best eight ground balls and now has 104 in her career. She is the second Blue Jay this season to reach the century mark in ground balls, joining Paris Colgain (102).
  • Junior Morgan Giardina tied her then career high with 10 saves in the win at Ohio State on April 10. She notched her 100th career save with her ninth of the game. She is the 14th goalie in school Division I history (since 1999), and 21st all-time, to reach the milestone. Giardina now has 132 career saves in 23 career games and had a career-best 11 saves in the B1G quarterfinal win over Penn State.
  • Senior Paris Colgain finished with a career-high six ground balls at Michigan on April 13, including the 100th of her career. She became the first Blue Jay to reach the century mark in ground balls since 2022, when Jeanne Kachris (126), Annika Meyer (121) and Keegan Barger (112) all reached the mark. Colgain ranks second on the team with a career high 39 ground balls and boasts 102 in her career.
  • Hopkins is ranked ninth in the IWLCA Coaches poll and 10th in the KANE Inside Lacrosse Media and USA Lacrosse Media polls. 
• The Blue Jays dropped one spot in the IWLCA and USA Lacrosse polls and remained in the same spot in the KANE poll this week.
• JHU has been ranked in the IWLCA poll for 32 consecutive weeks and in 51 of 56 polls under head coach Tim McCormack. The Blue Jays have been ranked in the top-10 in the IWLCA poll for 11 straight weeks. This is tied for the longest JHU has been ranked in the top-10 in program history. It matches the streak of 11 consecutive weeks from the final poll of 2005 until April 24, 2006.
• Eleven of the Blue Jays' 2025 opponents are ranked in the IWLCA poll, 10 in the KANE poll and nine in the USA Lacrosse poll. Hopkins' schedule is the fifth toughest in the nation and its opponents are a combined 164-84 (.661) so far this season.
• Hopkins is ranked seventh (.65438) in the latest RPI rankings, down one spot from last week.
  • Junior Reagan O'Brien is the Blue Jays' active leader with 141 career caused turnovers, which ranks second all-time in school history. She currently leads the nation with 4.59 caused turnovers per game. On Wednesday, she broke the school single-game record with 10 caused turnovers.
• O'Brien matched her 2024 season total (38) just 10 games into the season. It then took her just four more games to break Lacey Leigh Hentz's single-season mark of 54. Prior to this season, O'Brien's 38 caused turnovers in 2024 were the third most in school single-season 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 also tied the program single-game record for caused turnovers by a freshman when she had six takeaways at Loyola in 2023.
• Last season, senior Paris Colgain finished third on the team in caused turnovers (25) and junior Hannah Johnson ranked fourth (19) - both totals were career highs. This season, Johnson ranks second on the team with a career-best 28 caused turnovers and now ranks 20th in school Division I history with 54 for her career. Johnson's 28 caused turnovers so far this season are tied for 16th in school Division I history. She ranks fifth in the Big Ten with 1.65 caused turnovers per game. Colgain is third with 20 caused turnovers and now ranks 17th with 61 career caused turnovers. 
• As a team, Hopkins leads the Big Ten and ranks third in the nation with 12.53 caused turnovers per game. The 198 caused turnovers this season are seventh most in a season in JHU history. In addition, the 12.53 per game average is sixth best.
• 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 and Northwestern meet for the second time this season and 26th all-time in a series that began in 2002. The Wildcats lead the series 21-4 and have won the last 10 meetings.
• This is the fourth postseason meeting ever between Hopkins and Northwestern and second in the Big Ten Tournament. The Blue Jays and Wildcats met twice in the American Lacrosse Conference Tournament, in 2007 and 2012. Northwestern won each of those meetings.
  • Friday's game is the 137th game for Johns Hopkins against a current member of the Big Ten (B1G).
• Hopkins is 57-79 all-time against members of the B1G, including 22-22 in regular season games since joining the conference in 2017.
  • This is Hopkins' 25th game on April 25 and the 10th since the Blue Jays moved to Division I in 1999. JHU is 13-11 all-time on this date and just 4-5 since 1999.
• Friday's game is the second against Northwestern on this date. The Wildcats won that meeting 15-8 in 2004.
  • Hopkins has played in four overtime games this season and won all four. Prior to this year, the Blue Jays had never played more than three overtime games in the same season. Hopkins' four overtimes wins are the most in one season.
• Hopkins has won seven straight overtime games, dating back to 2023, and is 7-1 in overtime games under head coach Tim McCormack.
• Lacey Downey became the third Blue Jay to score an overtime goal this season when she scored with 3:38 left in the first overtime versus Penn State last Wednesday night. It is her second career game-winning goal and first overtime goal.
• At eighth-ranked Syracuse on March 10, 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 also 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.
  • 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).
• Downey is tied for the team lead in assists (26), is fourth in points (48) and goals (22). She is also second in draw controls (29) and fourth in caused turnovers (17) and ground balls (29). Downey ranks eighth in the Big Ten in assists per game (1.53) and total assists.
• Just 17 games into her Hopkins' career, Downey already ranks eighth in school Division I history for career assists by a midfielder (26).
  • 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. 
• On March 26, Mackin set a school Division I record with nine goals at James Madison. Her nine goals are three shy of both the all-time Johns Hopkins record, set by Collins versus Widener in 1987, and the NCAA Division I record. Mackin had an 11-point (8g, 3a) performance against Oregon on March 30. 
• Junior Ava Angello poured in 11 points on eight goals and three assists at Ohio State on April 10. The 11 points are tied for the third most in school history, while her eight goals are one shy of the Mackin's single-game record.
  • Freshman Laurel Gonzalez controlled 18 draws in the win over Oregon on March 30. That broke the school single-game record of 16, set last year by Jennifer Barry.
• Gonzalez also broke the program record for draws by a freshman (91), set by Shelby Harrison in 2018. She broke the record with her second draw of the game against the Ducks.
• On Saturday at Maryland, Gonzalez controlled 11 draws to break Barry's single-season mark of 133. She now has 141 draws on the season.
  • Junior Reagan O'Brien entered the game at Michigan needing just one caused turnover to break Lacey-Leigh Hentz's single season record (54) set in 2002 - two years before O'Brien was born. She wasted no time in breaking the record with her takeaway at 3:34 in the first quarter. O'Brien finished the game with six caused turnovers and now has 78 on the season.
• O'Brien added another record to her name on Wednesday with 10 caused turnovers versus the Nittany Lions. Her 78 caused turnovers this season are the second most in NCAA history. 
  • The come-back win over Penn State last Wednesday marked the third time this year, and sixth time under head coach Tim McCormack, that Johns Hopkins trailed entering the fourth quarter and rallied to win. Four of the six wins came in overtime, including Wednesday's win over the Nittany Lions.
• 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.
  • Johns Hopkins has held opponents scoreless for 10 or more minutes, 20 times this season. In addition, eight of those 20 scoreless streaks are at least 15 minutes.
• Under head coach Tim McCormack, Hopkins has held its opponent scoreless for 15 or more minutes, 28 times. 
• In the game at Stony Brook, JHU held the Seawolves scoreless in 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.
  • Senior Ashley Mackin is on a tear to start the season. She has notched at least four points in nine of her 12 games. In addition, in each of those nine games she scored at least four goals.
• She opened the season by notching four or more points in the first seven games. That streak is the fourth longest streak in school Division I history. Mary Key holds the record with 11 straight games with four or more points, set in 2005-06.
• Mackin's seven straight games with four (or more) goals is the longest in Johns Hopkins Division I history. In fact, since the program moved to Division I in 1999, the longest such streak was three games. 
• Mackin has scored 55 goals in 12 games this season, six more than she scored last year (19 games). In addition, she has totaled 73 points, seven more than her total from all of last season. She currently ranks 17th nationally in goals and 22nd in points.  
• Mackin scored eight goals versus Oregon on March 30 to eclipse the 50-goal mark for the first time in her career. This is the second straight season she has scored at least 40 goals, the 13th player in Johns Hopkins history to do so.
  • Sophomore Taylor Hoss is on roll in her last five games. She has scored 12 goals and handed out 10 assists during that stretch. The 22 points are just over 43 percent of her season total of 51 points.
• Hoss' 12 goals in the last five games have come on just 15 shots on goal. She has tallied three hat tricks during the stretch and has a pair of six-point games.
• Hoss ranks eighth in the Big Ten in assists (26) and assists per game (1.53) and is 12th in total points (51).
• During the same five-game stretch, junior Ava Angello has totaled 26 points on 15 goals and 11 assists. Her 15 goals have come on 31 shots on goal.
• Angello ranks second in the Big Ten and 18th in the nation in points (76). She also ranks fourth in the conference and 23rd in the nation in goals (54).
  • 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, 15 Blue Jays have notched at least one point and 14 have scored at least one goal. In addition, 12 of the 15 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 in 2024.
  • Hopkins has totaled 145 assists through 17 games, including double-digit outings in the wins over Duke (10 assists), Georgetown (14 assists), USC (11 assists), Rutgers (11 assists), Oregon (16 assists), Ohio State (10 assists) and Penn State (11 assists / 10 assists).
• The Blue Jays are assisting on 64.73 percent of their goals (224) this season, which leads the nation. JHU leads the Big Ten and ranks fifth in the nation in assists per game (8.53). In addition, Hopkins is third in the nation in total assists. 
• Hopkins' 145 assists this season are the second most in a season all-time in school history. The 145 assists are 16 shy of tying the single-season record (161), set last year. 
• JHU's 16 assists versus Oregon on March 30 are tied for the most in school history. The Blue Jays have handed out 10 or more assists in a game 15 times under head coach Tim McCormack. The Blue Jays set the school record with 16 against James Madison in 2024 and matched that versus the Ducks.
• 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.
  • Six Blue Jays carry active goal, assist and/or point streaks into Friday's Big Ten semifinal game versus Northwestern.
• Ava Angello and Ashley Mackin each boast double-digit point streaks, and Angello's 36-game goal scoring streak is the third longest in JHU Division I history. • 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. At the time, 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 six double-digit draw performances this season. After a pair of 12-draw outings, she broke her own record with 13 draws at Stony Brook. At the time, the 13 draws were tied for second most in program history and were three shy of the record. Gonzalez re-wrote the freshman and all-time single-game records with 18 draws in the win over Oregon on March 30.
• Gonzalez controlled 11 draws at Maryland on Saturday to break Jennifer Barry's single-season record of 133. Barry set the record last year in 20 games, while it took Gonzalez just 16 games to record 134 draws. In the win over Oregon on March 30, she also broke Shelby Harrison's freshman record of 91, set in 2018
• Gonzalez already ranks ninth in Johns Hopkins career history with her 141 draws. She currently ranks second in the Big Ten and 15th in the country with 8.29 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. On March 30, JHU outdrew Oregon, 25-8, to finish one shy of the school single-game record for draws.
• Hopkins had a lot to replace in the center circle with the graduation of 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.
• A graduate transfer who spent one season with the Blue Jays, Barry ranks 10th 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 14th in school Division I history with 101 career draws. Marshall needs 27 draws to move into the top 10.
•  As a team, JHU ranks fourth in the Big Ten with 13.94 draws per game. Last season, the Blue Jays broke the single-season record, and ranked third in the conference, with 14.65 draws per game. In addition, the Blue Jays broke the single-season record with 293 total draw controls.
• Hopkins has posted five of the top six single-game draw performances in school Division I history under head coach Tim McCormack. In fact, in the last three seasons, JHU has had 20 or more draws in a game eight times under McCormack.
  • On April 10 at Ohio State, Ava Angello reached the 40-goal mark for the third straight season. She scored 40 goals in her freshman season (2023) and followed that with 53 goals in 2024. She is the ninth player in school history with three (or more) seasons of 40 goals.
• On Saturday, Angello eclipsed the 50-goal mark to become the first player with consecutive 50-goal seasons since Mary Key did so for four consecutive seasons (2004-2007). She is just the sixth player all-time in Johns Hopkins' history to do so.
• Angello was the first Blue Jay with consecutive 40-goal seasons since Dene DiMartino accomplished the feat in three consecutive seasons from 2014-2016. Ashley Mackin joined Angello with consecutive 40-goal seasons in the win at James Madison. Mackin scored 48 goals in 2024 and already has 55 this season.
• Since the program moved to Division I in 1999, Angello and Mackin are just the seventh and eighth players with consecutive 40-goal seasons. In the 50-year history of the program, they are the 12th and 13th players with consecutive 40-goal seasons.
  • 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.
  • 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 defender Jillian McNaughton took home silver as a member of Team Canada.
  • Lacrosse will make its return to the Olympics in 2028 in Los Angeles. In 2028, men's and women's lacrosse will be competed in sixes.
• The Women's European Sixes Qualifier just wrapped up in Portugal with teams vying for a spot at the 2025 World Games in Chengdu, China. Haley Crosson, a 2019 Johns Hopkins graduate, backstopped the Ireland Lacrosse Sixes National Team to the Gold medal. She led Team Ireland to wins over Israel in the semifinals and Czechia in the championship.
• Crosson posted a tournament-best 73 saves (57% save average) and was selected to the All-Tournament Team. She also competed with Team Ireland at the 2024 World Lacrosse Box Championships in Utica, NY.
• Crosson ranks sixth in Johns Hopkins Division I history in career saves (314), save percentage (.444) and minutes played (2111:33). She also ranks seventh in games played (42) and tied for sixth in starts (37). 
  • 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.
  • 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 played 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 played four nationally televised regular season games in 2025. JHU faced Syracuse (March 10), Rutgers (March 23) and Penn State (April 16) on ESPNU. In addition, the Blue Jays took 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 496-323-4 (.605) and a 278-186 (.599) 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).
  • With a win over Northwestern, Johns Hopkins would move onto the Big Ten championship to take on the winner of Maryland-Michigan on Sunday, April 27. Opening draw for the championship is slated for 4:00 pm.

Additional Information Available in PDF Version Above