Johns Hopkins Blue Jays women's lacrosse

Johns Hopkins Blue Jays
Founded 1976
University Johns Hopkins University
Head coach Janine Tucker
Stadium Homewood Field
(capacity: 8,500)
Location Baltimore, Maryland
Conference Big Ten
Colors Columbia Blue and Black[1]
         
NCAA Tournament appearances
2018

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.

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.[2] The Blue Jays became the seventh women's lacrosse program in the conference.

References

  1. ↑ Johns Hopkins University Visual Brand Guidelines (PDF). Retrieved August 12, 2016.
  2. ↑ Year-by-Year Coaching Records (PDF), Johns Hopkins Women's Lacrosse Record Book, Johns Hopkins University, 2008.
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