The Johns Hopkins Blue Jays Women's Lacrosse team represents Johns Hopkins University in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I women's college lacrosse competition. The Blue Jays play their home games at Homewood Field located on the school's Homewood campus in Baltimore, Maryland. Johns Hopkins are members of the Big Ten Conference and are coached by Tim McCormack.
History From the team's inception in 1976 through the 1998 season, the Blue Jays women competed at the NCAA Division III level. They switched to Division I starting in the 1999 season. The Blue Jays were members of the American Lacrosse Conference until its dissolution in 2014, competed as an independent during the 2015 and 2016 seasons, and officially joined the Big Ten on July 1, 2016, making the 2017 season the first season of Big Ten Conference play for the Blue Jays.Year-by-Year Coaching Records (PDF), Johns Hopkins Women's Lacrosse Record Book, Johns Hopkins University, 2008. The Blue Jays became the seventh women's lacrosse program in the conference.
The Blue Jays made NCAA tournament appearances in 2004, 2005, 2007, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026.
In 2007, Johns Hopkins advanced to the NCAA tournament quarterfinals.
In 2016, the Blue Jays qualified for the NCAA tournament Sweet 16.
On April 18, 2021, Janine Tucker became just the 9th NCAA Division 1 Women's Lacrosse Coach to win 300 games with a 13–11 win at Penn State.Janine Tucker Celebrates 300th Win By Thanking Players, Coaches and Mentors, usalaxmagazine.com, USA Lacrosse, 2021
In June 2022, Tim McCormack was named as head coach of Johns Hopkins women's lacrosse. He replaced long-time coach Janine Tucker, who coached the team for 29 years.
In 2023, in McCormack's first year as head coach the Blue Jays made the NCAA tournament Sweet 16, losing to Syracuse 25-8.
In 2024, Johns Hopkins women's lacrosse made the NCAA tournament Sweet 16, losing to #6 Yale 9-7 in the second round.
In 2025, the Blue Jays made the NCAA Sweet 16, losing to #8 Princeton 18-12 in the second round.
In 2026, Johns Hopkins made the NCAA tournament semifinals following wins over UAlbany 21-7 in the first round and #14 Army 21-13 in the Sweet 16 (second round) and #5 Stony Brook 13-12 in the quarterfinals on a last second goal. This season marked the team's first NCAA Division I semifinals appearance in program history and their first NCAA quarterfinals appearance since 2007.
Season results The following is a list of Johns Hopkins's results by season since the institution of NCAA Division I in 1982:
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†NCAA canceled 2020 collegiate activities due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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