The Johns Hopkins Blue Jays are the 24

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teams that represent

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consi ...

, located in

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. They compete in the

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, except for their lacrosse teams, which compete in Division I. They are primarily members of the

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, while the men's and women's lacrosse teams compete in the

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. The team colors are Hopkins blue (PMS 284) and black, and the blue jay is their

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is the home stadium. Hopkins celebrates

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in the spring to coincide with the height of the lacrosse season. The Lacrosse Museum and National Hall of Fame, governed by

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, was located on the Homewood campus, adjacent to Homewood Field, until 2016 when it moved to its new facilities in

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. Past Johns Hopkins lacrosse teams have represented the

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in international competition. At the 1932 Summer Olympics lacrosse demonstration event Hopkins played for the U.S. They have also gone to

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to win the 1974

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Origin of the name

Originally, the Johns Hopkins athletes were not called ''Blue Jays'' but ''the Black and Blue'', a nickname derived from their athletic colors. Hopkins archivist James Stimpert has theorized that the Blue Jay name stemmed from Hopkins' student humor magazine, The Black and Blue Jay, first published in 1920. The "Black and Blue" came from the athletic colors and the "Jay" most likely stood for first initial in Johns Hopkins.

Varsity sports

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Men's lacrosse

Women's lacrosse

Football

Men's Basketball

During the 2021–22 season, the Blue Jays' basketball team, spearheaded by head coach

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, recorded a 23–4 record, ranked first in the Centennial Conference or region.

Championships

The school's most prominent sports team is its men's

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team, which has won 44 national titles — nine

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Division I (2007, 2005, 1987, 1985, 1984, 1980, 1979, 1978, 1974), 29

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(USILA), and six Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (ILA) titles. Hopkins'

rivals include

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, the

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, and a budding rivalry with

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due to intense recent competition, including one-goal victories over the Blue Devils in both the 2005 and 2007 NCAA Championships and in the NCAA semifinals in the 2008; its primary intrastate rivals are

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, the

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, and the

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. The rivalry with Maryland is the most prominent in college lacrosse and the two teams have met 105 times. On June 3, 2013, it was announced that Johns Hopkins would be joining the Big Ten Conference as a Sport Affiliate member in Men's Lacrosse starting in 2015. The Blue Jays Men's soccer team has won eight Centennial Conference Regular Season titles along with another four ECAC titles previously to joining the Centennial Conference in 1993. The team has reached the NCAA tournament 12 times in the program's history. The team is currently on a streak of 16 winning seasons and has had over 20 All-American selections. Hopkins also has an acclaimed

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team, which has ranked in the top three of Division III teams in the past few years and in 2007 defeated the

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, a Division I team, for the first time. The

team also has ranked in the top two of Division III for the last 10 years. Hopkins also has a century-old rivalry with

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(formerly Western Maryland College), playing the Green Terrors 83 times in football since the first game in 1894. Johns Hopkins' latest team to encounter postseason success is the school's

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team. Although Johns Hopkins baseball regularly wins the

regular season and tournament titles, 2008 was the first time since 1989 that the Blue Jays made it to the

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for Division III baseball, hosted in

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. The Blue Jays finished runner-up to

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, losing the championship game. In addition, Johns Hopkins Baseball made it to the D3 College World Series in 2010 (5th place finish) and 2019 (3rd place finish). The Blue Jays were the first regular U.S. baseball team to play in the

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. In June 1988, they played three games in

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. They were also the first team to play with a Soviet baseball team on the American soil, on October 13, 1988, in Baltimore, Maryland, against the

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varsity team. The women's cross country team has experienced great success in recent years, finishing 7th at the NCAA championship in 2009 and 2010. The cross country and track & field teams have also had several All-American runners in the past few years. In 2012, the women's cross country team beat out top-ranked MIT to become the first women's program in Johns Hopkins history to win an NCAA championship. They also won the NCAA championship in 2013 and 2014, giving them 3 championships in just 8 appearances. The Johns Hopkins women's volleyball team won their 1st Centennial Conference Title in 2011. The volleyball team has 4 NCAA All-Americans.

NCAA team championships

Johns Hopkins has won 22 NCAA national championships: ; Division I * Men's Lacrosse (9): 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1985, 1987, 2005, 2007 ; Division III * Women's Cross Country (8): 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022 *

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(1): 2022 * Men's Swimming (3): 1977, 1978, 1979 *

(1): 2019

Centennial Conference Team championships

(16): 1994, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021 * Basketball (M) (6): 1999, 2007, 2014, 2018, 2020, 2022 * Basketball (W) (4): 1996, 1999, 2000, 2003 * Cross Country (M) (3): 2013, 2019, 2022 * Cross Country (W) (14): 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022 * Field Hockey (8): 1993, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022 *

(15): 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021 * Lacrosse (W) (4): 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998 * Soccer (M) (9): 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2019 * Soccer (W) (15): 1996, 1997, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2022 * Volleyball (9): 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022

Rivalries

-Hopkins rivalry ''See: Maryland Railroad Lantern Game *

Johns Hopkins–Maryland lacrosse rivalry The Johns Hopkins–Maryland lacrosse rivalry is an intercollegiate rivalry between the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays, which represent Johns Hopkins University, and the Maryland Terrapins, which represent the University of Maryland. The most prominen ...

Lacrosse *

Johns Hopkins–Loyola lacrosse rivalry The Johns Hopkins–Loyola lacrosse rivalry is an intercollegiate lacrosse rivalry between Baltimore City's Johns Hopkins Blue Jays and Loyola Greyhounds. The teams first met in 1939, when Hopkins prevailed with a score of 20–1. The serie ...

Johns Hopkins–Navy football rivalry The Johns Hopkins–Navy football rivalry was an American intercollegiate football rivalry between the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays football team of Johns Hopkins University and the Navy Midshipmen football team of the United States Naval Academy. ...

References

External links

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Origin of the name

Varsity sports

Men's lacrosse

Women's lacrosse

Football

Men's Basketball

Championships

NCAA team championships

Centennial Conference Team championships

See also

Rivalries

References

External links