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Table Of Contents 2 Letters From The Captains 3 Letter From The Coach By The Numbers 4 Meet Coach Tucker Coaching Records Coaches’ profiles, p. 4-5 2005 Season Outlook, p. 6-7 2004 Season Review, p. 22-33 5 Assistant Coaches Profiles Johns Hopkins Quick Facts Camp Information Location ........................................................................................................... Baltimore, MD 6 2005 Season Preview Founded ............................................................................................................................ 1876 Enrollment ....................................................................................................................... 3,900 8 2005 Roster Nickname ................................................................................................................. Blue Jays Colors ............................................................................................. Columbia Blue and Black 9 Player Profiles Affiliation ...................................................................................................... NCAA Division I 18 2005 Opponents Conference ............................................................................ American Lacrosse Conference President ............................................................................................... Dr. William R. Brody 20 NCAA Tourney Information Athletic Director .................................................................................................. Tom Calder Athletic Department Phone ........................................................................... (410) 516-7490 21 ALC Preview Home Field ................................................................................................... Homewood Field Surface .............................................................................................................. Artificial Turf 22 2004 Season Review Capacity ........................................................................................................................... 8,500 24 2004 Statistics Press Box Phone .............................................................................................. (410) 516-0243 Head Coach .................................................................................. Janine Tucker (Loyola ‘89) 25 ALC Review Career Record .............................................................................................. 134-50 (11 years) Record at Hopkins ....................................................................................... 134-50 (11 years) 26 2004 National Honors Assistant Coaches ................................................. Lellie Cherry Swords, Tricia Dabrowski Lacrosse Office Phone ..................................................................................... (410) 516-7479 27 Game Recaps Athletic Trainer ............................................................................................... Matt Bussman 33 Tucker vs. Opponents 2004 Record .......................................................................................... 12-5 overall, 4-2 ALC 2004 Final IWLCA Rank ............................................................................................... Tenth 34 All-Divisions Record Book 2004 Postseason ....................................................................................... NCAA First Round Starters Returning/Lost ..................................................................................................... 8/4 37 Division I Record Book Letterwinners Returning/Lost ......................................................................................... 19/8 All-Time Record ..................................................................................... 283-172-4 (29 years) 40 Yearly Leaders and Results Division I Record .......................................................................................... 66-34 (six years) 43 Welcome To Baltimore Associate Director of Athletics/SID ................................................................ Ernie Larossa Assistant SID (Women’s Lacrosse Contact) ..................................................... Kim Milardo 44 About The University SID Office Phone ............................................................................................. (410) 516-0638 SID Fax ............................................................................................................ (410) 516-7482 46 Athletic Facilities SID Email .................................................................................................. [email protected] Internet Address ............................................................................ www.HopkinsSports.com 47 Homewood Field 48 Hopkins Administration Directions to Homewood Field 49 Athletic Training Athletic Staff Directory From the Northwest: Take I-83 South to Cold Spring Lane Exit. Go left off of the exit ramp, heading east onto Cold Spring. At the third light, turn right onto Roland Avenue. 50 Blue Jays Unlimited After about 1/4 mile, bear left at the fork in the road onto University Parkway. Homewood Field is about one mile ahead on the right. 51 Endowed Scholarships 52 Hopkins Lacrosse Alumni From the South: Take I-95 North to I-395 (Downtown Batimore). Exit onto Martin Luther King Boulevard and follow until street narrows to two lanes. Turn left onto Howard Street and follow until the road forks. Bear right at the fork onto Art Museum Drive (the Balti- Credits: The 2005 Johns Hopkins University more Museum of Art will be on your left). Follow Art Museum Drive until it ends at Charles Women’s Lacrosse Media Guide was written and Street. Go left onto Charles Street. At the third light, make a left onto University Parkway. designed by Assistant Sports Information Direc- Homewood Field is a block ahead on your left. tor and women’s lacrosse contact Kim Milardo, and edited by Associate Director of Athletics From the Northeast: Take I-95 South to I-695 West. Exit at I-83 South and follow I-83 to Ernie Larossa. The outside covers were designed Cold Spring Lane Exit. Go left off of the exit ramp, heading east onto Cold Spring. At the by Sport Productions (Overland Park, KS); the third light, turn right onto Roland Avenue. After about 1/4 mile, bear left at the fork in the photography was supplied by Rob Brown, Jay road onto University Parkway. Homewood Field is about one mile ahead on the right. Van Rensselear and Will Kirk; and Junior Press From the West: Take I-70 East to 695 North (towards Towson). Exit at I-83 South and handled the printing. follow I-83 to Cold Spring Lane Exit. Go left off of the exit ramp, heading east onto Cold Spring. At the third light, turn right onto Roland Avenue. After about 1/4 mile, bear left at Front Cover: Lacey-Leigh Hentz (left) and Anne the fork in the road onto University Parkway. Homewood Field is about one mile ahead on Crisafulli. Back Cover: Erin Riordan (left) and the right. Kristen Miller. 2005 Women’s Lacrosse • www.HopkinsSports.com 1 Letters From The Captains To My Teammates and Supporters: To The Blue Jays and Our Fans: When I first entered Hopkins as an immature 18-year-old I thought When Lacey and I were elected captains this year by our team- I knew most everything about lacrosse.ÊI had come from the middle mates, Coach Tucker sat me down on the couch in her office, handed of nowhere and made a name for myself, so surely college would not me a piece of chocolate as is customary, and told me I was a captain be that big of a transition. Boy was I wrong. Playing came fairly easy, of the 2005 team. She then told me she is proud to say that when I was but everything else did not.ÊI thought that all I had to do was show a freshman on this team, she never would have predicted I would be up for the games. Little did elected by my teammates to be captain for my I know that Division I col- senior year. That statement is a testament to lege lacrosse at JHU would the amount of learning, growing and maturing be the biggest test of all.ÊI I have done as a player in this program. had heard of everyone say- My first day of practice freshman year I re- ing that college is the best member being scared of everything - the upper- four years of your life.Ê How- classmen, the ball, the pass back weave drill and ever, after many hard tests, my skills as a lacrosse player. That first year in the classroom and out, I through practice, road trips and countless con- realized that college was not versations with the coaches, I developed into a going to be a breeze.ÊOver more confident and skilled lacrosse player. I the next three years, I had started games my sophomore and junior years, challenges placed in front of and I focused on increasing my confidence as me that often times I well as my skills with each practice. I learned doubted I could handle.Ê that the best players aren’t great because they Lacrosse at Hopkins has were born that way. taught me more than just As I begin my last season this spring, I feel stick skills and defensive po- that this team has accomplished a great deal sitioning. It has taught me since my freshman year. It’s hard to imagine as how to persevere.ÊI have an 18th ranked team that you’ll be on the heels of learned over the past four the top five in three short years. But the coaches years how to adjust to oth- always believed and here we are at the begin- ers rather than being stub- ning of our best season yet. born and making them ad- As you know, Homewood Field