• Johns Hopkins is back in action in the NCAA Second Round as the Blue Jays take on host and sixth-ranked Yale Sunday afternoon for a spot in the NCAA Quarterfinals.
• The Blue Jays beat the 25th-ranked Fairfield Stags, 11-5, on Friday afternoon in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. 
• The win pushed Hopkins record to 12-7 overall, the Blue Jays most wins since 2015.
  • Hopkins earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament for the sixth straight season (not including the cancelled 2020 season). In fact, JHU has made the NCAA Tournament nine times in the last 10 seasons.
• The six straight NCAA Tournament appearances is the longest streak in program history.
• This is Hopkins' 12th NCAA Tournament appearance since moving to Division I in 1999 and 21st overall. JHU made its first trip to the NCAAs as a Division I team in 2004. The Blue Jays are now 4-11 in the NCAA Division I Tournament and 10-20 all-time. Hopkins has made four trips to the second round, including in each of the last two years.
• Hopkins' game versus Fairfield was the Blue Jays' first NCAA Tournament game in Connecticut. In fact, it was the Blue Jays' first game ever in Connecticut in the 49-year history of the program.
  • Hopkins has played nine teams that earned spots in the NCAA Tournament, including four in the Big Ten.
• Three of the nine earned automatic bids (Northwestern, Stony Brook, Loyola). In addition, JHU faced three teams that are seeded in the field (Northwestern, Maryland, Penn).
• The Blue Jays rank first in the nation in strength of schedule (.696) and 12th in RPI (.65001).
  • Johns Hopkins placed four players on the USA Lacrosse All-America team it was announced Thursday. Jordan Carr was named to the third team, while Jennifer Barry, Ashley Mackin and Ava Angello were named honorable mention. The four USA Lacrosse All-Americans are a program record and bring the program total to 11 since 2014.
• Carr, a First Team All-Big Ten selection, has put together one of the most impressive seasons by a defender in JHU history. She leads the Big Ten and ranks fifth in the nation with 2.61 caused turnovers per game. She also leads the league and ranks 21st in the nation with 2.78 ground balls per game. Carr has totaled 47 caused turnovers this season, the second most in school history and seven shy of the program record. In addition, she has totaled 53 ground balls, the most by a Blue Jay since 2004.
• Barry made an immediate impact at the center circle for the Blue Jays this season and was recently named Second Team All-Big Ten. She leads the conference and ranks 2oth in the nation with 6.37 draw controls per game. She has totaled a school-record 122 draws this season and she already ranks 10th in school Division I history in career draws. Barry also broke the school single-game record with 16 draws against Vanderbilt and the school post-season record with eight draws at Northwestern in the Big Ten Semifinals.
• Mackin ranks second on the team with a career-best 48 goals and 63 points. In fact, she more than doubled her goal total (19) from a year ago. She is also tied for fifth on the team with a career-best 15 assists. Mackin ranks seventh in the Big Ten in goals per game (2.67) and is eighth in points per game (3.50). She has notched 11 hat tricks this season, including a career-best seven goals at 14th-ranked Penn.
• Angello, a Second Team All-Big Ten selection, leads Hopkins with career-highs of 52 goals and 67 points. Her 52 goals are the most by a Blue Jay since 2014. Angello tallied here 100th career point earlier this season, needing just 31 games to reach the milestone. She needs just five points to break into the top-20 in school Division I history in career points. Angello ranks sixth in the Big Ten in goals per game (2.74) and is seventh in points per game (3.53). She is also tied for fifth on the Blue Jays with a career-best 15 assists.
  • Hopkins is ranked 11th in this week's IL Women/IWLCA Poll with 239 points. JHU is also ranked 11th in the USA Lacrosse Poll this week.
• JHU has been ranked in each of the last 20 IL Women/IWLCA polls and 29 of the last 33 polls.
• Ten of the Blue Jays' 2024 opponents are ranked in the IL Women/IWLCA poll, including four in the top-10 (Northwestern, Michigan, Loyola, Penn).
• Hopkins boasts the toughest schedule in the nation as the Blue Jays' 2024 opponents sport a combined win percentage of .696 (206-90). JHU is also 12th in the nation in RPI (.65001).
  • Ashley Mackin and Ava Angello combined for seven goals and the Johns Hopkins' defense held Fairfield in check as the Blue Jays beat the Stags, 11-5, in the first round of the NCAA Tournament Friday.
• Hopkins grabbed a 2-0 lead with back-to-back goals from Mackin just 19 seconds apart. Mackin scored the first of her four goals at the 9:23-mark on a one-timer off a feed from Charlotte Smith. The Blue Jays won the ensuing draw and Maeve Barker found Mackin all alone on the doorstep, where she finished with a behind-the-back shot. Maggie Fort answered for the Stags at the 5:29-mark to make it a 2-1 game.
• Angello got the first of her three goals on the afternoon as the Blue Jays capitalized on a failed clear. Abbey Hurlbrink picked off a Fairfield pass in the midfield and sprung the counterattack with a pass to Mackin. Some quick passing ended with Angello on the doorstep, where she hitched and then beat Claire Morris at 4:16. Kelly Haggerty cut the lead back to one in the final minute of the first with a goal off the dodge.
• Mackin completed her hat trick with a transition goal just 75 seconds into the second quarter. Sixty-one seconds later, Marielle McAteer converted an eight-meter shot and Hopkins led 5-2. The Blue Jays got another transition goal from Angello at the 10:22-mark and the lead was four. After scoring three goals in less than three and a half minutes, the pace slowed. JHU ended the stalemate with another Mackin goal with 2:34 to play in the second. Fairfield had the final say of the half, when Haley Burns got open in the middle of the fan, turned and scored with just 22 ticks on the clock to make it a 7-3 game.
• It took more than 10 minutes into the third before either team could get on the board and it was MK Lescault that did the honors. With 4:34 to go in the quarter, she took a pass from Barker, dodged through a pair of defenders and scored to the left post to push the lead to five. Exactly 60 seconds later, Christina Fabrizi scored on a quick shot from the right alley. Jordan Carr then got in on the scoring, when the defender cleared the ball after a Hannah Johnson takeaway, and then was there for a quick-stick finish off a Campbell Case pass at the 1:05-mark.
• The Blue Jays pushed their lead to six with 9:46 to go in the fourth off Angello's third of the game. Some great tic-tac-toe passing ended with Angello on the doorstep for the score. Just 41 seconds later, McAteer drew a triple team before finding a wide-open Hurlbrink, who went uncontested down the middle of the arc for the score. Fabrizi got one back for Fairfield, scoring with 3:44 to play to account for the 11-5 final.
• Mackin led the Blue Jays with four goals, while Angello also had four points (3g, 1a). Case and Barker each had three assists. Barker now ranks seventh in school Division I history with 63 career assists. Jennifer Barry finished with a game-high seven draws and became only the 10th player in NCAA Division I history with 500 career draws. Johnson and Reagan O'Brien led the defense with three caused turnovers each. Madison Doucette tallied five saves in the win, along with three ground balls, and broke the program single-season record for saves and now boasts 174 on the season.
  • Graduate student Bailey Cheetham reached the 100-point mark with her first assist of the afternoon on Saturday at Michigan. She is the third player this season to reach the mark. Cheetham is also the 48th player in school history, and 30th since the program moved to Division I, to score 100 points.
• Sophomore Ava Angello tallied the 100th point of her career with her assist on Cheetham's overtime winner at Rutgers. She did so in her 31st career game, making her the seventh fastest player in program history to reach the milestone.
• Senior Abbey Hurlbrink notched the 100th point of her career in the win over James Madison on March 30. The milestone came with her assist on Angello's goal with 7:32 left in the second quarter. 
• Cheetham now has 43 goals and 61 assists (104 points) in 73 career games while Angello boasts 92 goals and 28 assists (120 points) in 37 career games. Hurlbrink has totaled 73 goals and 38 assists (111 points) in 71 career games. The trio join graduate student Maeve Barker (157 career points), as current members of the 100-point club.
• This is the first time since 2001-02 that there have been four 100-point scorers on the same team. In fact, it is just the third time it has happened in the 49-year history of the program. There have been at least three active 100-point scorers 13 times in program history.  
  • Johns Hopkins University inducted eight new members into its Athletic Hall of Fame on Friday, April 19, 2024. The eight-member class is the 25th inducted since the Johns Hopkins Athletic Hall of Fame was formed in 1994 and raised the total number of members to 202. 
• Among the eight inductees is Dawn Nee, a 1991 graduate of the University and a four-year member of the women's lacrosse team. Nee is the 20th women's lacrosse player to be inducted into the JHU Athletic Hall of Fame.
• In 1991, Nee became just the second defender in program history to earn First Team All-America honors. She also earned First Team All-Region and First Team All-Middle Atlantic Conference honors as a senior. Nee totaled nine goals, two assists, 39 ground balls and 23 draw controls over her final two seasons.
• Nee helped Johns Hopkins to a four-year record of 47-16 with four MAC West titles and two MAC Tournament Championships. She also helped the Blue Jays to three appearances in the NCAA Tournament with the program's first-ever trip to the NCAA Semifinals in 1988.
  • Bailey Cheetham scored the overtime winner at Michigan in the Big Ten Quarterfinals, her second overtime game-winner this season. She is the first player in program history with multiple overtime game-winning goals in one season. In fact, Cheetham is just the fourth player in JHU history with multiple overtime goals in one season.
• Hopkins is now 20-25 all-time in overtime games, including 3-1 under head coach Tim McCormack. The Blue Jays' win over the Wolverines on Saturday was their first postseason overtime win in program history.
  • Junior Ashley Mackin, senior Abbey Hurlbrink and sophomore Ava Angello reached double-digit points just three games into the season. Last year, it took Mackin until the sixth game of the year to reach that mark and it took Hurlbrink until the 14th game. Angello meanwhile, needed just four games into her freshman campaign to reach the double-digit mark.
• Angello leads JHU with 67 points and ranks seventh in the Big Ten with 3.53 points per game. Mackin ranks second on the team with 63 points and is eighth in the conference in points per game (3.50). Graduate student Bailey Cheetham and senior Campbell Case are tied for third with 47 points. Graduate student Maeve Barker is right behind them with 45 points. Angello, Mackin, Cheetham, Case and Barker have all posted career-highs in points this season.
• Ten Blue Jays have now reached double digits in points, with six of those eclipsing the 40-point mark this season. This is the first time in program history that Hopkins has six players with 40 or more points. 
• Angello also leads the team with a career-high 52 goals and ranks sixth in the Big Ten with 2.74 goals per game. Her 52 goals are the most by a Blue Jay since Taylor D'Amore scored 52 in 2014. Mackin ranks second with 48 goals and is seventh in the conference with 2.67 goals per game. Her 48 goals are already a career high, as she matched her 2023 total of 19 (13 games) just five games into the season. Mackin's 19 goals in the first five games are the most by a Blue Jay through the first five games since 2006. That year, Mary Key scored 21 goals in the first five games of the season.
• Case is third on the team with a career-high 31 goals, while graduate student Maeve Barker is fourth (27) and Hurlbrink is fifth (19). Eight Blue Jays have reached double digits in goals. In addition, 17 players have scored at least one goal and nine of the 17 have at least eight goals.
• As a team, Hopkins ranks second in the Big Ten, and 39th in the nation, in scoring offense with 13.21 goals per game. The Blue Jays' 13.21 goals per game is the second best single-season mark in school Division I history. The 1999 squad holds the record with 13.79 goals per game (14 games). Furthermore, Hopkins' 251 goals this are the most in school Division I history, and fourth most all-time in JHU history.
• In addition, Hopkins ranks second in the Big Ten and 21st in the nation with 21.42 points per game. The Blue Jays broke the school record for points in a season (402) versus the Stags on Friday and now boast 407 points. The 21.42 points per game is the best average in school Division I history and is fourth all-time in program history. The 1994 team averaged 23.65 points per game (402 points in 17 games). 
  • Ava Angello reached the 40-goal mark against Maryland and she now has 52 goals on the season. This is her second straight season with at least 40 goals, as she scored 40 goals last season.
• 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 49-year history of the program, she is the 12th player with consecutive 40-goal seasons.
  • Hopkins leads the Big Ten and ranks eighth in the nation with 8.21 assists per game. Last season, JHU ranked second in the conference and 19th in the nation with 6.72 assists per game. The 8.21 assists per game is the best average in program history. In fact, it is the only time in 49 seasons that the Blue Jays have averaged more than eight assists per game.
• Hopkins broke the program's Division I single-season record for assists (123) in the regular season game at Michigan and then broke the all-time school record (130) at Penn State. The Blue Jays now boast 156 assists on the season.
• The Blue Jays have turned in four double-digit assist performances this season, including a school-record 16 assists in the win over James Madison.
• Hopkins is assisting on 62.15 percent of its goals (251g, 156) through 19 games. That is the highest assist-to-goal ratio in the nation and is the best in program history. 
• JHU notched 121 assists and assisted on 53.5 percent of its goals in 2023. The 121 assists are now third most in school Division I history, while the 6.72 assists per game and assist-to-goal ratio of 53.5 are the third best per game average.
  • Sixteen Blue Jays have notched at least one assist this season, led by Bailey Cheetham (33), Abbey Hurlbrink (22), Maeve Barker (18), Campbell Case (16), Ashley Mackin (15) and Ava Angello (15). Cheetham ranks third in the Big Ten with 1.94 assists per game and Hurlbrink ranks 10th (1.16).
• This is the first time since 2019, and ninth time overall, that Hopkins has had multiple players with 20 or more assists.
• Cheetham's 33 assists are a career high and are the most by a Blue Jay since Miranda Ibello had 40 in 2018. Her 33 assists are seventh most in school Division I history while she ranks ninth with 61 career assists.
• Barker ranks seventh in program history with 63 career assists. She led the Blue Jays last season with 21 assists, while Case and Cheetham were tied for second with 19 assists.
• Angello (13), Hurlbrink (13) and Mackin (10) also reached double digits in assists last season.
• Cheetham's 61 assists are the most by a midfielder in school Division I history. Hurlbrink is fifth with 38 career assists by a midfielder. Her 22 assists this season are a career high, surpassing her total (11) from last year (18 games).
  • Hopkins got stronger in the center circle this summer with the addition of graduate student and draw specialist Jennifer Barry. She came to Baltimore from Boston University, where she earned All-Patriot League honors in each of her last three seasons. She earned IWLCA Northeast Region Second Team honors in 2022 and 2023 and was named a Third Team All-American by Inside Lacrosse in 2022. A three-year starter, Barry totaled 57 goals and 35 assists to go with 378 draws, 55 ground balls and 37 caused turnovers. She holds the BU record for draws in a game (18), season (156) and career (378). In 2023, she ranked second in the Patriot League and eighth in the nation with 7.72 draws per game and in 2022, she led the league and was fourth nationally with 9.18 draws per game.
• Barry jumped right in and made an immediate impact with eight draws in the win at UAlbany. Two other newcomers made their mark in the center circle opening weekend in freshman Kayley Kakac and graduate student Kacie Riggs. Kakac turned in a nine-draw performance in the win at Siena. At the time, her nine draws were two shy of the school record. Kakac's nine draws are also tied for third most in a game by a freshman in JHU history. Riggs controlled six draws versus the Saints in the second game.
• Barry ranks second among all active players in the nation, and 10th in NCAA Division I history, with 500 career draw controls. She is averaging 7.34 draws per game for her career, the second best average among all active players. Barry's per game average also ranks eighth in NCAA Division I history.
• Barry broke the program's single-season record (103) in the win at Michigan in the Big Ten Quarterfinals. She leads the Big Ten in draws (122) and draws per game (6.37) and ranks 20th nationally in draws per game. In addition, Barry is tied for 10th in Hopkins career history with her 122 draws.
• Barry tied the school postseason record with eight draws at Northwestern last Thursday.
• Abbey Hurlbrink ranks second on the team with 52 draws and Jordan Carr is third with a career-high 46 draws. Hurlbrink also ranks eighth in school history with 158 career draw controls.
  •  As a team, Hopkins ranks third in the Big Ten and 33rd in the nation in draws per game (14.74). The 14.74 draws per game is the best average all-time in school history. Hopkins wins 54.4 percent of its draw controls, which ranks fifth in the Big Ten. It is also the seventh best draw control percentage in school Division I history. 
• JHU has tallied 280 draw controls this season, breaking the program's all-time single-season record (269) in the win over Fairfield on Friday.
• Hopkins dominated the draw at Siena, outdrawing the Saints, 22-7. At the time, the 22 draws were tied for the second most in school history and were four shy of the school record. Against Vanderbilt, the Blue Jays outdrew the Commodores, 20-8, including 7-2 in the second half. On March 30, Hopkins won the draw battle against James Madison, 23-13, and a week later, JHU outdrew Rutgers, 19-9. Hopkins has had at least 22 draws in a game four times in the last two seasons.
• Last season, Hopkins ranked third in the Big Ten with 14.61 draws per game. That is the second best per game average in school Division I history. The Blue Jays won 52.1 percent of their draws, which ranked fourth in the Big Ten. In addition, Hopkins' 263 draw controls in 2023 are the second most in school history.
  • Graduate student Madison Doucette is back in the crease after taking a gap year in 2023 and its like she never left. She has started all 19 games this season for the Blue Jays and leads the Big Ten in saves (174) and is third in saves per game (9.16). Doucette also ranks eighth in the nation in total saves and 23rd in saves per game.
• Doucette ranks 13th among active Division I goalies in career saves with 510. Just 19 games into her career in the Hopkins Blue & Black, she already ranks 10th in school Division I history in career saves. She broke the program's Division I single-season saves record (170) on Friday versus Fairfield. She is now 11 saves shy of tying the Hopkins' all-time single-season record (185).
• Doucette also ranks third in the Big Ten in ground balls with 2.32 per game.
  • Hopkins and Yale meet for the third time in program history and first since 2001. The Blue Jays and the Bulldogs met in 2000 and 2001, with JHU winning both meetings.
  • Senior defender Jordan Carr scored a transition goal with 4:25 left in the second quarter at UAlbany in the season-opener. She scored her second goal of the season on March 6 in the win over Vanderbilt. Carr got her third of the season on March 30 against James Madison. She added her fourth goal of the season on Friday versus Fairfield.
• This is the third straight year that a Blue Jay defender has scored a goal, as junior Quinlan O'Brien scored last year at Loyola and Jeanne Kachris scored against UMBC in 2022.
• Carr was a midfielder in her first three seasons before moving to defense this season. She scored 31 goals in her first three seasons with the Blue Jays.
• Carr is the 13th Hopkins' defender to score a goal since the program moved to Division I in 1999. She is the seventh that has multiple goals in their career as a defender. Her four goals this season are the third most by a defender.
• Lacey-Leigh Hentz is first among all JHU defenders with 12 career goals (2002-05). She was inducted into the JHU Hall of Fame in 2020.
  • Jordan Carr made the transition from midfield to defense this season and hasn't missed a step. She totaled seven caused turnovers and two ground balls in the Blue Jays' two wins opening weekend. Through 18 games this season, she boasts 47 caused turnovers, 53 ground balls and 46 draws - all career highs. Carr leads the Big Ten and ranks fifth in the nation with 2.61 caused turnovers per game. Her 47 caused turnovers are the second most in school single-season history and she now ranks 10th in JHU history with 69 career caused turnovers. Furthermore, her 53 ground balls are the most by a Blue Jay since 2004, when Lacey-Leigh Hentz had 54.
• Reagan O'Brien made her mark on the Blue Jay defense in her freshman campaign in 2023. She notched three caused turnovers and three ground balls in her collegiate debut versus UAlbany and led the team with 25 caused turnovers. She also finished fifth with 23 ground balls in 16 games. 
• This season, O'Brien is second on the team with 37 caused turnovers and ranks fourth in the Big Ten with 1.79 per game. Her 37 takeaways rank third in school single-season history. She also tied the school postseason record with four caused turnovers in the loss at Northwestern in the Big Ten Semifinals. Last season, O'Brien led Hopkins and ranked fifth in the Big Ten with 1.56 caused turnovers per game. 
• O'Brien tied the program single-game record for caused turnovers by a freshman when she had six takeways at Loyola. Her 25 caused turnovers were fifth most by a freshman in school history.
• Paris Colgain is third in caused turnovers with 23 and ranks 10th in the Big Ten with 1.16 per game. Hannah Johnson ranks fourth with 19 and Kacie Riggs is fifth with 18 caused turnovers. Both Colgain and Johnson have posted career highs in takeways this season.
• As a team, Hopkins leads the Big Ten and seventh in the nation with 10.58 caused turnovers per game. The Blue Jays' 202 caused turnovers this season are the fifth most in school Division I history. Last season, JHU ranked third in the Big Ten and 23rd in the nation with 9.11 caused turnovers per game.
  • Hopkins brought back more than 96 percent of its goals (218 of 226) and more than 97 percent of its assists (118 of 121) in 2024. The Blue Jays returned their top-12 goal scorers and 14 of the 17 players that scored at least one goal last season.
• JHU boasted a balanced attack in 2023 as five players scored at least 30 points. The last time the Blue Jays had five players with 30 or more points was in 2019.
• Ava Angello led the way with 53 points and 40 goals, while Maeve Barker (24g, 21a) and Campbell Case (24g, 19a) also eclipsed the 40-point mark.
• Georgie Gorelick ranked second on the team with 26 goals and added six assists for 32 points. Bailey Cheetham was tied for second on the team in assists (19) and scored 17 goals to finish with 32 points.
  • Sophomore Ava Angello turned in her third six-point performance of the season versus Maryland. She finished with a game-high five goals and six points against the Terps.
• Angello (6g, 2a) and graduate student Maeve Barker (4g, 2a) each had six-point performances in the win over James Madison. It is the first time that two Blue Jays had at least six points in a game since March 7, 2023 when Angello (6g) and Barker (3g, 3a) had six points each at Monmouth.
• Since JHU moved to Division I in 1999, there have been 16 games, out of 442, in which two Blue Jays have had six-point performances. In fact, in two of those games (Denver 2012, Furman 2019), Hopkins had three players with at least six points.
• Angello also had six points (3g, 3a) in the win at Siena on opening weekend. Four Blue Jays have combined for six six-point outings this season. In addition to Barker and Angello (3 games), Ashley Mackin and Abbey Hurlbrink have also had a game with at least six points this season. 
  • Ava Angello's six goals and Bailey Cheetham's five assists against James Madison was the first time since April 29, 2023, and the 13th time overall, that Hopkins had a player with five goals (or more) and a player with five assists in the same game.
• Mary Key is the only player in program Division I history to have at least five goals and five assists in the same game. She accomplished the feat on March 24, 2007 versus Oregon.
  • Ava Angello led Hopkins with 40 goals last season becoming the first freshman to lead the Blue Jays in goals since 2009. She is just the third freshman to lead JHU in goals since the program moved to Division I in 1999.
• She ranked second in the Big Ten in points (53) by a freshman and was third in goals by a freshman.
• Angello scored three goals in her collegiate debut against UAlbany and was the first freshman to tally a hat trick in their debut since 2016. In fact, she was just the fifth freshman in school Division I history to score a hat trick in their collegiate debut.
• Angello tied the school single-game record for goals by a freshman when she scored six against Monmouth. She joined Meghan Burnett (2000) and Jamie Larrimore (1999) as the only Blue Jay freshmen with six goals in a game.
• In JHU history, Angello ranks third in points, fourth in goals and sixth in assists by a freshman. She also ranks 11th in draws (30) by a freshman.
  • Johns Hopkins placed four players on the 2024 All-Big Ten Women's Lacrosse Team. The Blue Jays had one first team selection and three second team selections while also placing one player on the Sportsmanship Team. The four selections are tied for the second most in program history.
• Senior Jordan Carr was named to the first team and graduate student Jennifer Barry, senior Abbey Hurlbrink and sophomore Ava Angello were named to the second team. Senior Marielle McAteer was named to the All-Sportsmanship Team. Hopkins has now produced 23 All-Big Ten selections since joining the league in 2017.
  • Graduate student midfielder Bailey Cheetham and senior midfielders Jordan Carr and Abbey Hurlbrink have been selected as captains for the 2024 season. Cheetham and Carr are both two-time captains. They are the 19th and 20th players in program history to serve as a captain twice.
• Cheetham returns after posting career highs in every statistical category last season. She finished with 17 goals, 19 assists, 24 ground balls, 14 caused turnovers and 19 draw controls. She ranked second on the team in assists and was fourth in points.
• Carr topped a breakout sophomore season with a career junior year in 2023. She started 16 games and posted career highs in goals (19), points (21) and draw controls (16). Carr also picked up 17 ground balls and casued nine turnovers.
• Hurlbrink started 15 games a year ago and finished with 14 goals and a career-high 11 assists. She also finished with career highs in ground balls (18) and draw controls (53) and had eight caused turnovers. Hurlbrink's 53 draws ranked second on the team.
  • The Blue Jays' 2024 roster includes six graduate students, nine seniors, eight juniors, seven sophomores and 11 freshmen.
• The 41-woman roster features players from 12 states, the District of Columbia and one Canadian province (Ontario). The Blue Jays also represent all four United States time zones.
• By state, the Blue Jays hail from New York (10), Maryland (9), New Jersey (5), Massachusetts (4), California (2), Pennsylvania (2), Oregon (2), Connecticut (1), Virginia (1), Minnesota (1), Texas (1) and Colorado (1).  
  • Head coach Tim McCormack welcomed three graduate student transfers - Jennifer Barry (Boston University), Madison Doucette (Northwestern) and Kacie Riggs (Cal) to Homewood this Fall.
• A 2022 IL All-American, Barry earned All-Patriot League honors three times and was a two-time IWLCA All-Northeast selection for the Terriers. She totaled 57 goals and 35 assists to go with 378 draws, 55 ground balls and 37 caused turnovers. Barry holds the BU record for draws in a game (18), seasons (156) and career (378). In 2023, she ranked second in the Patriot League and eighth in the nation with 7.72 draws per game. 
• Doucette went 32-8 as a starter for the Wildcats. She boasted an 11.83 goals against average and a .407 save percentage while leading NU to the 2021 and 2022 NCAA Final Four. She ranked second in the Big Ten in saves (166) and sixth in save percentage (.422) as a senior. Doucette led the league in goals against average (11.06) as a junior.
• Riggs was a two-year starter on defense for the Bears. She totaled 84 draw controls, 35 ground balls and 14 caused turnovers in her career with the Bears. Riggs ranked second on the team, and ninth in the Pac-12 in draws (45).
  • The Blue Jays welcomed 11 freshmen to campus this Fall. The group represent five states as well as Washington, DC.
• Joining Hopkins are Jaelyn Bennett, Alexa Christensen, Piper Daskalos, Samantha DiCarlo, Jane Freeman, Taylor Hoss, Kaley Kakac, Nina Palella, Heidi Rosely and Sam Tate.
  • Athletics at Johns Hopkins is a family affair and this year's team is no different.
• Sophomore midfielder Reagan O'Brien and junior defender Quinlan O'Brien are the 13th pair of sisters to don the Hopkins Blue & Black.
• Senior goalie Maggie Tydings followed in the footsteps of her  father, Millard, who is a 1980 graduate of the University and played football as a freshman and was a member of the Blue Jays lacrosse program.
• Sophomore goalie Morgan Giardina is also following her father, Scott, who played lacrosse at Johns Hopkins and is a 1992 graduate of the University.
• In addition, senior Liza Regan played alongside her cousin, Caroline Somerville, for two seasons (2021, 2022) at Homewood.
  • Head coach Tim McCormack joined Kelly Amonte Hiller's staff as an assistant coach of the 2024 US Women's U20 National Team it was announced last May.
• The US team will compete in the 2024 World Lacrosse Women's U20 Championship in Hong Kong, China this summer.
• The US women won five of the seven world championships conducted by World Lacrosse from 1995 to 2019. World Lacrosse adjusted the age groupings for this championship up to the U20 age level.
  • This marks the 49th season for Johns Hopkins, which sports an all-time record of 484-317-4 (.603) and a 266-180 (.596) record as a Division I program. The Blue Jays are in their 26th season of Division I after making the move in 1999.
• The game against Maryland on April 10 was the 800th game in program history. Hopkins is 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).
  • A win over Yale would send Hopkins to the NCAA Quarterfinals for the first time since 2007. JHU would face off against the winner of third-seeded Syracuse and Stony Brook on Thursday, May 16. 

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