Quick Sticks
• Loyola is beginning its 47th season of women's lacrosse competition and 11th season under head coach Jen Adams.
• The Greyhounds, ranked ninth in the IWLCA Preseason Coaches Poll, have earned their fifth preseason top-10 ranking under Adams, and their first since the 2015 season.
• Loyola will face nine teams in the preseason coaches poll, including Florida (6), Princeton (8), Towson (11), Penn State (12), Navy (13), Syracuse (15), Virginia (16), Georgetown (22) and Johns Hopkins (23). All eight of Loyola's non-conference opponents are nationally ranked.
• This marks the Greyhounds' sixth season of competition in the Patriot League. They're 43-0 in regular-season conference games since joining the League for the 2014 season, marking the longest active conference win streak in the nation.
• Loyola, voted the preseason favorite in the Patriot League, placed a League-best five Greyhounds on the Preseason All-Patriot League Team, with sophomore Livy Rosenzweig earning Preseason Offensive Player of the Year accolades and senior Kristen Yanchoris being tabbed the Preseason Defensive Player of the Year for a second-straight season.
• Seniors Taylor VanThof, Hannah Powers and Kady Glynn joined Rosenzweig and Yanchoris on the Preseason All-Patriot League Team, while four Greyhounds Powers, (HM), Rosenzweig (2nd), VanThof (2nd) and Yanchoris (2nd) were all named Preseason All-Americans by ILWomen.
Loyola Greyhounds (0-0, 0-0 Patriot League)
• Only one school in the country returns more points than the Greyhounds in 2019, as Jacksonville brings back 415 of its 559 points from the 2018 season. In graduating 153 points from last season, Loyola brings back 375 of its 528 points.
• Livy Rosenzweig returns for her sophomore season after leading the Greyhounds with 55 goals, 47 assists and 102 points. Her 102 points broke Grace Gavin single-season record of 98 points, set in 2011, while she also became the first Greyhound - male or female - to break 100 points in a single season.
• Rosenzweig also owns Loyola's freshman records for points (102), assists (47) and draw controls (89), and the program record for assists in a single game (8, at Colgate).
• Nationally, Rosenzweig was the top-ranked freshman in the NCAA in assists and points, while she was one of three freshmen to earn All-America honors in 2018.
• Senior Hannah Powers, the 2018 Patriot League Attacker of the Year, returns after ranking second on the team with 48 goals, 30 assists and 78 points.
• Senior Taylor VanThof enters her final season chasing the program's career record for draw controls, which is held by her older sister, Taryn ('15), at 381. Coming off a season in which she won 119 draw controls, VanThof became the third player in Patriot League history, and the first at Loyola, to reach 100 draws in multiple seasons. She enters this year with 284 throughout her career.
• Defensively, senior Kristen Yanchoris returns after earning Patriot League Scholar-Athlete of the Year for women's lacrosse and Patriot League Defensive Player of the Year. She finished last season with 25 ground balls and 19 caused turnovers.
• In goal, senior Kady Glynn returns for a third-straight season as starting goalkeeper. Last season, she posted a 10.85 goals-against average and a .483 save percentage, totals that ranked 30th and 22nd in the NCAA, respectively. Throughout her career, she's allowed 11.06 goals per game and stopped 47.4 percent of shots faced.
Johns Hopkins Blue Jays (1-0, 0-0 Big Ten)
• The Blue Jays opened their 2019 season with a 17-9 win at Drexel. Johns Hopkins got hat tricks from Ellie McNulty, Maggie Schneidereith and Keegan Barger in the game.
• Hopkins was picked to finish this season fourth in the Big Ten, behind unanimous favorite Maryland, Northwestern and Penn State. Michigan, Ohio State and Rutgers round out the poll.
• The Blue Jays return 10 starters from last year's team that won 10 games and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the fourth time in the last five years.
• Johns Hopkins returns all five starters on defense and four of its top-five scorers, including Preseason All-American Maggie Schneidereith and Big Ten Player to Watch Mackenzie Heldberg.
• The Blue Jays also return Preseason All-American Shelby Harrison to the midfield, while Ellie McNulty, an All-Ivy League selection at Princeton last year will spend her graduate year at JHU.
Series History
• Loyola holds a 14-4 advantage in an all-time series that dates back to 1975.
• Loyola started the series by winning the first 11 meetings before the two teams took a 29-year hiatus, from 1982-2012.
• The Greyhounds extended their win streak to 12-straight games by winning the 2012 meeting, 11-7, at Homewood Field, before Johns Hopkins notched its first series win with an 11-8 victory at Ridley Athletic Complex in 2013.
• Since taking the hiatus, the two programs have met six times as NCAA Division I foes, with Hopkins using a 14-11 win last year to earn a slight 4-3 advantage in that portion of the series.
Up Next
• Loyola will have a week to prepare for its home opener, as it hosts No. 6 Florida on Saturday at noon.
