• Johns Hopkins returns to Homewood Field to take on USC in Big Ten action Thursday afternoon.
• Hopkins is coming off a 15-12 win at Rutgers in both teams' Big Ten opener. The win pushed the Blue Jays' record to 8-1.
• At 8-1, Hopkins is off to its best start since 2014 when the Blue Jays won their first 10 games.
• This is just the fourth time since JHU moved to Division I in 1999 that the Blue Jays have at least eight wins in their first nine games.  
• The Blue Jays started the season 4-0 for the first time since 2014.
  • Johns Hopkins is 17-5 in the month of March under head coach Tim McCormack.
• Since moving to Division I in 1999, Hopkins is 131-56 (.700) in the month of March.
  • 2026 marks the 50th anniversary of women's lacrosse at Johns Hopkins. JHU made its program debut on March 26, 1976 at Swarthmore.
• JHU earned the program's first win on April 13, 1977 - a 12-7 win over Hood.
• The Blue Jays made the transition to Division I in 1999 and went 10-4 that season. 
• Johns Hopkins is 505-326-4 (.607) in 50 seasons, including 287-189 (.603) as a Division I program.
• Hopkins became just the 12th program in NCAA history, across all divisions, to play 800 games on April 10, 2024.
• The Blue Jays have posted 39 winning seasons, including 21 straight from 1987 to 2007. Hopkins has also made 22 NCAA Tournament appearances, including 13 in the Division I Tournament. JHU has made the last seven NCAA Tournaments, and all 13 DI appearances have come since 2004.
• JHU has produced 137 all-conference selections and 90 All-Americans in 50 seasons. In addition, 21 players have been inducted into the University's Athletic Hall of Fame.
  • Lacey Downey scored a career-best six goals to lead eighth-ranked Johns Hopkins to a 15-12 win at Rutgers in both teams' Big Ten opener Sunday afternoon. • Hopkins jumped out to a 3-0 lead with a pair of Ava Angello goals sandwiched around a McKenzey Craig score in the opening 5:07 of the game. Caroline Ling got Rutgers on the board at the 8:20-mark with a shot in traffic and Delainey Sutley then cut the deficit in half with a quick-stick a little less than four minutes later.
• Sienna Chirieleison answered for the Blue Jays when she took a pass from Paige Willard, dipped under her defender and then picked the right post on the run at 3:33. Angello then completed her first quarter hat trick when she came from behind the goal and beat Stella Quilty with the lefty sidearm with just 17 ticks on the clock. The Blue Jays once again struck in the opening minute of the quarter when Downey scored on a bouncer just 41 seconds in to put the Jays up 6-2.
• The Scarlet Knights roared back with five unanswered, including three straight from Kate Theofield, in a span of just 5:33. Payton Tini capped the run when she took a pass from Lily Dixon, turned and scored on a low shot to give Rutgers a 7-6 lead at the 6:32-mark.
• Hopkins came right back with three goals in just two minutes and 11 seconds. Downey buried back-to-back eight-meter goals from the same spot to grab the lead back for the Blue Jays. She then she cut across the fan, took a pass from Taylor Hoss and blew home her fourth of the afternoon to put JHU up 9-7 with 2:40 to go in the half.
• Rutgers came out firing to start the third, scoring the first three goals of the quarter to take a 10-9 lead. Ling opened the scoring with a shot off the dodge and then back-to-back goals from Theofield put the Scarlet Knights on top with 9:06 to play in the third. Samantha DiCarlo and Downey answered with back-to-back eight-meters and Hopkins led 11-10 after three.
• JHU picked up right where it left off when Willard scored off a fee from Hoss at goal line extended just 24 seconds into the quarter. Hoss then scored off a left-handed rip while going to the ground to put the Blue Jays up 13-10 at the 12:05-mark. Theofield halted the four-goal run just 59 seconds later with her sixth of the afternoon.
• After a Quilty save, Downey intercepted her clearing pass before finding Willard open for the slam dunk at 8:47. Downey then blew home her school-record-tying fourth eight-meter of the day to stake Hopkins to a 15-11 lead five minutes later. Rutgers wasn't done as Ling scored off a Theofield helper just 70 seconds later to cut the deficit to three. The Blue Jays held the Scarlet Knights without a shot in the final 3:27 to secure the win.
• Downey finished with the six goals and a career-best eight points to go with five ground balls and four caused turnovers. Four of her six goals came on free position, tying the school single-game record. Angello added a hat trick and Hoss notched four points with a goal and three assists. Willard also had a multi-point game with two goals. Laurel Gonzalez controlled nine draws and Ashley Langdon finished with eight saves.
  • Lacey Downey was named the Big Ten Midfielder of the Week on Tuesday for her performance in Johns Hopkins' 15-12 win at Rutgers. This is her second B1G Midfielder of the Week honor this season. 
• Downey had a career day in Hopkins' Big Ten opener at Rutgers. She totaled a career-best six goals and eight points to go with five ground balls, four caused turnovers and one draw control. The four caused turnovers also tied her career high. Downey went 4-of-4 on free position shots, tying the school single-game record for free position goals. Her six goals came on just eight shots.
• Downey leads the team in ground balls (35) and free position goals (10). She also ranks second in goals (25), assists (13), points (38), caused turnovers (27) and draw controls (19).
  • Reagan O'Brien and Ava Angello were named to the 2026 Tewaaraton Award Watch List it was announced on February 10. This is the second straight year the duo has been named to the Watch List.
• Angello and O'Brien are the sixth and seventh players in Johns Hopkins history, respectively, to be named to the Tewaaraton Watch List twice. O'Brien is the first defender to do so. This is also the second consecutive season that JHU has had multiple players named to the list. 
  • The come-back win over James Madison is the seventh time under head coach Tim McCormack, that Johns Hopkins trailed entering the fourth quarter and rallied to win. Four of the seven wins came in overtime.
• In three of the comebacks (Rutgers 2023, Stony Brook 2025, James Madison 2026), 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.
  • Taylor D'Amore '14 has been selected to the 26th class of inductees into the Johns Hopkins Athletic Hall of Fame. The induction ceremonies are scheduled for Friday, April 17 and the class will also be honored at the Johns Hopkins-Maryland men's lacrosse game at Homewood Field on Saturday, April 18.
• D'Amore is the 21st women's lacrosse player to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. The 21 women's lacrosse selections are the most of any women's team and is tied for fourth most among all Johns Hopkins teams.
• D'Amore ranks second in school Division I history in career points (303) and assists (161) and sixth in goals (142). She had at least one point in 58 straight games, the second longest streak in the program's Division I history and had at least one assist in each of her last 28 games, a school Division I record. She led the team in points in each of the last three seasons and led the team in assists and draws in each of her four seasons. D'Amore led the nation in assists (2.65) and points (5.25) per game as a senior.
• A two-time team captain and a four-year starter, D'Amore was a two-time IWLCA All-American and a three-time All-American Lacrosse Conference selection.
  • Johns Hopkins has held opponents scoreless for 15 or more minutes, five times this season. Three times the Blue Jays have held their opponents scoreless for a quarter. 
• Under head coach Tim McCormack, Hopkins has held its opponent scoreless for 15 or more minutes, 33 times. 
• In the win over Stony Brook, Hopkins held the Seawolves scoreless in the third quarter as the Blue Jays rallied from a 7-6 halftime deficit to win 13-11. It was the 12th time under McCormack that JHU shut out an opponent in a quarter.  
  • After playing three of its first four games on the road, Hopkins will play eight of its final 12 regular season games within the friendly confines of Homewood Field. However, two of those final four road games, include trips to Northwestern and Oregon.
• During that four-game opening stretch, the Blue Jays traveled to three states (Virginia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania) and covered nearly 1,300 miles.
  • Reagan O'Brien broke the NCAA Division I single-season record for caused turnovers last season. She broke the 25-year-old record with her 83rd takeaway, in the Big Ten semifinals, and finished the season with 103.
• O'Brien also broke the Johns Hopkins career record for caused turnovers in the semifinals. She surpassed Lacey Leigh Hentz's record of 146, which had stood for 20 years. She now holds the Johns Hopkins game (12), season (103) and career records (198) for caused turnovers.
• O'Brien has tallied 32 caused turnovers through eight games this season, bringing her career total to 198. She now ranks fourth in NCAA history and needs two to become just the fourth player to reach 200 career caused turnovers. 
  • Laurel Gonzalez wasted no time in making her mark in the Johns Hopkins record book as a freshman in 2025. She set the single-game (18) and single-season (166) marks for draw controls and is already fourth in program history in career draws (212). Her 166 draw controls last season were the fourth most in Big Ten single-season history.
• Gonzalez ranked second in the Big Ten and 14th in the nation with 8.30 draws per game last season. She posted six of the top 10 single-game draw performances in JHU history and had double-digit draws seven times. Gonzalez is also tied for the JHU record for draws in a postseason game (11).
• Gonzalez leads the Blue Jays with 55 draws in nine games this season and ranks seventh in the Big Ten with 6.11 per game.
  • Hopkins is ranked eighth in the IWLCA and USA Lacrosse Polls this week and is seventh in the Kane IL Media Poll.
• Nine of the Blue Jays' 2026 opponents are ranked in the IWLCA Coaches Poll, eight are ranked in the Kane IL Media Poll and six are ranked in the USA Lacrosse Poll.
• Hopkins' schedule is the fifth toughest in the nation and its opponents are a combined 83-40 (.675) on the season. In addition, JHU is eighth in the NCAA's RPI with a value of .66975.
• JHU was ranked in the top 10 in all three polls in the preseason. It is the second straight year the Blue Jays were ranked in the top 10 in both the IWLCA and USA Lacrosse preseason polls. It is the first time JHU is ranked in the top 10 in the Inside Lacrosse preseason poll since 2007.
  • Graduate student Sally Zinsner and seniors Ava Angello, Hannah Johnson and Reagan O'Brien have been selected as captains for the 2026 season.
• Zinsner transferred to Homewood after a standout career at Holy Cross. She ranks fifth in program history in career points (182) and sixth in goals (133). She led the team in points as a junior (78) and senior (68) and is a two-time All-Patriot League selection (First Team in 2025, Second Team in 2024).
• Angello is the Blue Jays' active career leader in points (253), goals (187) and assists (66). A three-time Honorable Mention All-American and two-time All-Big Ten pick, she ranks third in school Division I history in points and goals and tied for sixth in assists.
• Johnson is a two-time captain and has started 59 games on defense. She has totaled 86 ground balls and 68 caused turnovers in 66 career games and ranks 12th in school Division I history in caused turnovers.
• A consensus First Team All-American and the 2025 Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year, O'Brien is the NCAA's active leader with 196 career caused turnovers. She holds the JHU single-game (12), season (103) and career records for takeaways. She has also totaled 149 ground balls to rank eighth in school Division I history and fifth among all active NCAA DI players.
  • Hopkins tallied 20 caused turnovers in the season-opener at Liberty on February 7. Reagan O'Brien (six) and Lacey Downey (four) combined for half of those. In total, 10 Blue Jays notched at least one caused turnover versus the Flames. JHU has now totaled 131 caused turnovers through nine games and ranks second in the NCAA with 14.67 per game.
• O'Brien leads the Blue Jays with 32 caused turnovers, while Downey ranks second (27) and freshman Molly Hiney ranks third (17). O'Brien leads the nation with 4.00 per game and Downey ranks eighth (3.00). In addition, Hiney ranks third in the Big Ten (1.89) and Hannah Johnson ranks eighth in the B1G (1.44). 
• O'Brien is the program leader with 198 career caused turnovers and Johnson is 12th with 68 takeaways in her career.
• Hopkins finished 2025 with 258 caused turnovers, the second highest single-season total in program history. The Blue Jays were just nine shy of tying the record (267), set in 2000.
• In the last two years under defensive coordinator Dorrien Van Dyke, the Blue Jays have turned in two of the six best caused turnover totals in program history. In 2024, JHU totaled 213 takeaways, which ranks sixth in school history, and ranked seventh in the nation with 10.65 per game.
  • Ava Angello became just the eighth player in Johns Hopkins Division I history, and 13th all-time, to tally 200 career points (150 goals, 50 assists) in the 2025 Big Ten semifinals versus Northwestern. She reached the milestone in just 56 games, the seventh fastest all-time in school history to reach the mark.
• Angello is the first player to reach the 200-point mark since Maggie Schneidereith in 2020. Schneidereith finished her career in 2021 with 249 points (151 goals, 98 assists). Angello now boasts 256 points (190 goals, 66 assists) in 67 career games. She needs 44 points to become only the third player, all-time, in Johns Hopkins history to notch 300 career points. Angello now needs 10 goals to become the second player in school Division I history, and third all-time, with 200 career goals.
• Angello is fifth among all active players in NCAA Division I in career points (256) and is fourth in goals (190).
  • Taylor Hoss entered the game versus Stony Brook needing just one point to reach 100 for her career and she wasted no time. She reached the milestone with her assist on MK Lescault's goal just 2:15 into the first quarter. She is the 52nd player all-time in program history to score 100 career points and she joined Ava Angello as current Blue Jays in the Century Club.
• This is the third straight season and 21st time overall that JHU has had two players on the same team with 100 career points. 
• Lacey Downey is now closing in on the milestone as she enters Thursday's game with 96 career points.
• Hopkins graduated a pair of 100-point scorers in Ashley Mackin (181) and Campbell Case (127) from last year's team.
  • Hopkins brought back three of its top four goal scorers and their top three in assists in Ava Angello, Taylor Hoss and Lacey Downey. In total, the Blue Jays returned 54 percent of their goals (147 of 272), 62.5 percent of their assists (110 of 176) and 57.3 percent of their total points (257 of 448). Hopkins returned seven players that notched a point in 2025, including six that tallied at least 10 points.
• JHU boasted a balanced attack in 2025 as four players scored at least 28 goals and five had at least 40 points. It was the second straight year, and just the third time in program history, that Hopkins had five players with 40 or more points - Angello (90), Ashley Mackin (85), Hoss (61), Downey (58), Charlotte Smith (40).
• It was the first time since 1995 that Hopkins had two players - Angello and Mackin - with 80 or more points in a season. The last to do so were Jenn Ward (99) and Francine Brennan (97). In fact, it was just the third time in JHU history that two players reached the 80-point mark.
• In addition, it is the first time in school Division I history, and just the second time ever, that the Blue Jays have had two players with 60 or more goals. The last time it happened was in 1994, when Rebecca Savage scored 71 goals and Ward scored 60.
• Under head coach Tim McCormack and offensive coordinator Nicole Graziano, the Blue Jays are re-writing the Hopkins' record book. In the last two seasons, JHU has turned in the top two point, goal and assist totals in program history. The last two seasons' point and assist totals rank first and second all-time (since 1976) in program history. The last two seasons' goal totals are tied for second and fourth all-time.
  • Seven of the Blue Jay freshmen have notched at least one point through the first eight games this season, while four have tallied at least 10 points. The seven have combined for 57 points on 40 goals and 17 assists. The freshmen account for 35.1 percent of the team's goals and 30 percent of the team's points (190).
• Paige Willard leads the JHU freshmen with 16 points (12g, 4a). She is tied for third on the team in goals and fourth in points. McKenzey Craig is second among her classmates, and fifth overall, in goals (10). Sienna Chirieleison ranks fourth on the team in assists (7) and is second among the freshmen with 14 points (7g, 7a).
  • For the third time this season, Hopkins had two players with at least six points each. In the win over Colgate, Ava Angello had seven points (5g, 2a) while Taylor Hoss notched six (1g, 5a).
• At Penn, Angello (5g, 2a) and Lacey Downey (5g, 2a) had seven points each. And in the win at Duke, Hoss (2g, 4a) and Paige Willard (4g, 2a) had six points each.
• This is the fifth time under head coach Tim McCormack that two Blue Jays have had six or more points in the same game. Since the program moved to Division in 1999, it has happened 20 times.
• Angello has been involved in four of the last five games. In addition, it is the fourth time that two players had seven or more points in a game. It has happened twice in the last two seasons.
  • Ava Angello turned in her third straight season with 40+ goals in 2025. She scored 40 goals as a freshman in 2023 and followed that with 53 goals in 2024 and 65 in 2025. Angello is the first player to accomplish the feat since Dene DiMartino (2014-2016) and just the ninth in program history.
• Angello also became the first player with back-to-back 50-goal seasons since Mary Key, who scored 50 or more goals in each of her four seasons (2004-2007).
• Angello's 90 points last season are the most by a Blue Jay since Taylor D'Amore totaled 105 points in 2014. In addition, her 90 points are the fourth most in school Division I history and sixth all-time.
  • Paige Willard notched six points (4g, 2a) in the win at Duke. She is the first freshman with six points since Ava Angello had six on six goals at Monmouth on March 7, 2023.
• McKenzey Craig scored the overtime winner versus the Blue Devils. She is the first freshman to do so since Angello scored the overtime winner versus Towson on April 18, 2023. In fact, she is just the third freshman in program history to score an overtime game-winner. Joining Angello and Craig is Abbey Hurlbrink, who did so at 23rd-ranked Michigan on April 22, 2021.
  • Hopkins assisted on 12 of 17 goals in the season-opener at Liberty - more than 70 percent of its goals. In addition, nine players had at least one assist. Against James Madison, the Blue Jays handed out 10 assists, on 12 goals, for an 83.3 percent assist to goal ratio.
• Through nine games, the Blue Jays lead the Big Ten and rank fourth in the nation with 9.00 assists per game. JHU is assisting on 62.79 percent of its goals (129g, 81a) and ranks seventh in the nation in assist-to-goal ratio.
• The Blue Jays have handed out double-digit assists in four games this season and have now posted 19 double-digit assist games under head coach Tim McCormack. Hopkins had nine double-digit assist games in 2025 (out of 20 games) and set the single-game record with 17 assists in the win over Liberty in the NCAA Tournament.
• In 2025, Hopkins broke the school single season record for assists for the second straight year. JHU finished with 176 assists, 15 more than 2024 (161). The 2024 team broke the previous record by 31 - a record that had stood since 1994. Hopkins led the Big Ten and ranked seventh in the nation in assists in 2024 (8.05). Last year, the Blue Jays led the conference and ranked third in the nation (8.80).
• Hopkins assisted on 64.70 percent of its goals (272) last season, which led the nation. It was the second straight year that JHU led the nation in goal-to-assist ratio. The Blue Jays assisted on 62.40 percent of its goals (258g, 161a) in 2024.
  • Taylor Hoss ended last season on roll as she totaled 16 goals and 16 assists over the final eight games of the season. The 32 points were more than 52 percent of her season total of 61 points in 20 games. During that stretch, she notched 10 points (4g, 6a) in the Big Ten Tournament to earn All-Tournament Team honors.
• Hoss' 16 goals in the last eight games of the season came on just 19 shots on goal. She tallied three hat tricks during the stretch and had a pair of six-point games. She has picked up right where she left off and has 37 points (13g, 24a) in the first nine games of the season. In fact with 37 points, she is already more than halfway to her total from last season (61 in 20 games).
• During the same eight-game stretch, Ava Angello totaled 40 points on 26 goals and 14 assists. Her 26 goals came on 53 shots on goal (.491). Angello didn't miss a beat in the offseason as she has totaled 32 goals and 45 points in the first nine games. In addition, her eight goals in the season opener were one more than the entire Liberty team.
  • Hopkins' double overtime win at Duke was the 50th overtime game in program history and 16th that needed multiple overtimes. The Blue Jays are now 25-25 (.500) in overtime games, including 21-17 (.553) since moving to Division I in 1999.
• Hopkins has now won eight straight overtime games dating back to 2023 and is 8-1 in overtime games under head coach Tim McCormack.
  • Hopkins and USC meet for just the third time in a series that began in 2025. JHU has won both meetings in the series, including last year's Big Ten opener in Los Angeles.
  • Hopkins outdrew Liberty, 17-9, in the season opener with a combined 13 draws from Lacey Downey (7) and Laurel Gonzalez (6). JHU controlled a season-high 19 draws in the win over Colgate. It is the 33rd time (in 67 games) under head coach Tim McCormack that JHU had more draws than its opponent.
• Going into 2025, Hopkins was looking to replace 86 percent of its draw controls lost to graduation - and found the answer in Gonzalez. She went on to break the single season record and ranked second in the Big Ten with 166 draw controls in her freshman campaign.
• In her collegiate debut, Gonzalez outdrew Florida all on her own, controlling 12 draws to the Gators' seven. She finished the season with seven double-digit draw performances, including a school record 18 versus Oregon. She already ranks fourth in school history in career draws (221) and is 76 away from tying Shelby Harrison's career record (297).
• As a team, Hopkins finished with 285 draw controls in 2025, the second highest total in program history and eight shy of the record. The 2024 squad holds the record with 293. JHU ranked third in the Big Ten in draws in 2024 and fourth in 2025. JHU has turned in three of the top four single season draw totals in school history under McCormack. In addition, Hopkins has posted five of the top six single-game draw performances and has had 20 or more draws in a game eight times under McCormack.
  • Four Blue Jays were named to the Nike Lacrosse/IL Women Power 100 Freshmen rankings this Fall, including three in the top 35.
• Sienna Chirieleison leads the quartet as she is ranked 11th, followed by Zoey Smith (31st) and McKenzey Craig (33rd) in the top 35. Paige Willard is an honorable mention selection.
• Chirieleison was a three-time USA Lacrosse All-American at Trinity, where she totaled 532 goals, 105 assists, 449 ground balls, 299 caused turnovers and 330 draw controls. She broke the Pennsylvania state record for career goals.
• Smith earned USA Lacrosse All-America honors twice at Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science. She finished her career with 411 goals, 55 assists and 354 draw controls and holds the school record for goals in a season (126) and career.
• A three-time USA Lacrosse All-American, Craig led Plant to a pair of state championships. She was named the Hillsborough Area Lacrosse Player of the Year as a senior.
• Willard was a two-time USA Lacrosse All-American at Skaneateles, where she totaled 126 goals, 138 assists, 74 ground balls and 80 draw controls. She led her team to a state championship as a sophomore.
  • Athletics at Johns Hopkins is a family affair and this year's team is no different.
• Freshmen Georgia and Mary Pavlou are the 14th pair of sisters to don the Hopkins Blue & Black.
• Senior Reagan O'Brien played alongside her older sister, Quinlan O'Brien '25, for three seasons.
• Senior goalie Morgan Giardina and sophomore midfielder Emmy Haugen are both following in the footsteps of their fathers, Scott Giardina and AJ Haugen. Giardina was a two-time All-American goalie and led the Blue Jays to the NCAA Semifinals as a senior in 1992. Haugen was a three-time First Team All-American midfielder and was inducted into the Johns Hopkins Athletic Hall of Fame in 2013.
  • Hopkins will play four nationally televised regular season games in 2026. JHU will face Ohio State (March 22) and Michigan (April 12) on ESPNU. In addition, Hopkins will face Northwestern (March 29) and Penn State (April 16) on the Big Ten Network.
• The Big Ten Semifinals and Championship games will be televised on the Big Ten Network.
  • Johns Hopkins is right back at Homewood Field on Sunday, March 22 to host Ohio State. The game will be televised on ESPNU with opening draw slated for 12:02 pm. The Blue Jays will honor their seniors after the game. 

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