Oct. 27, 2009
Johns Hopkins Women's Soccer Notes in PDF Format 
A LOOK BACK
Johns Hopkins won its only game last week, 6-0, when they hosted Bryn Mawr on Saturday afternoon. This is the first time this year that the Blue Jays have scored six goals. The previous high was when Hopkins beat Washington College, 5-0, on September 19. With the victory, the Blue Jays clinched a spot in the Centennial Conference playoffs.
Erica Suter and Caitlin Moore each had two goals in the contest. Suter also had an assist in the contest, giving her five points on the day. Erin Stafford and Alison Smith scored the fifth and sixth goals. Goalkeeper Jessica Cynowiec had her first career start and victory.
THE WEEK AHEAD
Johns Hopkins comes into the week with a record of 12-3 overall and 7-1 in the Centennial Conference. The Blue Jays have two conference games on the docket this week. They host McDaniel Tuesday evening at 7:00 pm and they travel to Ursinus to close out the regular season on Saturday with a 1:00 pm game.
McDaniel enters the week with a record of 4-11-1 overall and 3-5 in the conference. Johns Hopkins holds the series lead 14-4. Last year’s meeting between the two teams ended in an 8-0 victory for the Blue Jays.
Ursinus enters the week just one spot above McDaniel in the Centennial standings with a record of 8-5-1 overall and 4-3-1 in the conference. The Blue Jays defeated the Bears 4-0 in 2008.
GUSZKOWSKI STRONG ON BOTH ENDS
Senior goalkeeper Karen Guszkowski, playing forward in the match against Bryn Mawr, recorded her first career assist as she assisted on the first goal of the game, scored by Erica Suter. She also tallied one shot in the game.
SEEING DOUBLE
Both Erica Suter and Caitlin Moore scored two goals Saturday afternoon against Bryn Mawr. This is the second multi-goal game for Suter this season and she now has a team-high eight goals on the season.
Moore scored her two goals just five minutes apart from eachother in the first half against Bryn Mawr. She now has three goals on the season.
YEAR OF THE SHUTOUT
The Blue Jays have played 15 games this season and 13 of those have been shutouts. Hopkins has been on the winning end 10 times. The program record for shutouts in a season is 17, set last season. In all, 19 of the Blue Jays’ 23 games last year were shutouts. The 2-1 win at Haverford on October 3 was Hopkins’ first game this year that was not a shutout.
STREAKS
Sophomore goalie Kristen Redsun recently had a shutout streak of at 496:11, which is good enough to put Redsun sixth on the all-time consecutive scoreless minutes list at Johns Hopkins. The streak ended on October 17 against Muhlenberg. The streak began on October 25, 2008 at Bryn Mawr. In addition, senior goalie Karen Guszkowski had a shutout streak of 479:34 that was snapped in the win over Haverford on October 3. That streak stretched from September 12 to October 3. It was her fifth shutout streak since October 2007 of 400+ minutes. In addition, four of those five streaks were over 450 minutes.
TOUGH SLATE
Head coach Leo Weil does not shy away from playing ranked teams as the Blue Jays enter this week’s action having played five top-20 teams, with four of those ranked in the top 10. JHU is 3-2-0 against ranked opponents this season. Two of Hopkins’ losses this season have come to top-10 opponents, Messiah and William Smith, which boast a combined record of 25-3-2. The Falcons, the top-ranked team in the nation, shutout the Blue Jays, 2-0, on September 9. Three days later, Hopkins lost a heartbreaker, 1-0, at #9 William Smith. The Falcons are ranked first in the nation, while the Herons are currently ranked 14th.
CLOSE CALLS
Six of Hopkins’ 15 games so far this year have been decided by just one goal and the Blue Jays are 5-1-0 in those games. Since 2004, Hopkins is 38-9 (.808) in games decided by one goal and 85-45 (.654) all-time in one-goal games.
IN THE POLLS
The Johns Hopkins women’s soccer team is ranked 13th in the NSCAA poll this week- moving up one spot from last week. The Blue Jays have been ranked in the NSCAA for 20 consecutive weeks. The Blue Jays are ranked second in the Mid-Atlantic Region. Hopkins is ranked 16th in the D3soccer.com poll.
MOVING UP THE RANKS
Sophomore Erica Suter is tied for 10th in program history with 20 career goals and ranks 14th in program history with 45 points. She moved up in both categories last week thanks to a two-goal, five-point performance against Bryn Mawr.
Senior Karen Guszkowski enters this week with 174 career saves and 26 career shutouts, ranking her third in program history in both categories.
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS
Johns Hopkins opened its 18th season of women’s soccer with a 1-0 win over then eighth-ranked Washington University. The following afternoon the Blue Jays defeated then 10th-ranked Lynchburg, 1-0, to capture the JHU Invitational title.
AT THE HELM
Head coach Leo Weil has been at the helm of the women’s soccer program at Johns Hopkins since it began in 1992. He has taken the program to new heights in the last decade, recording 12 wins or more each season, including three 18-win seasons, a school-record.
Weil boasts an impressive 221-87-27 (.700) career record at Hopkins. In 1997, in just the sixth year of its varsity status and one year following its first winning season, Hopkins went 15-3-1 on its way to clinching its second straight Centennial Conference title and advanced to the NCAA Tournament, the first postseason appearance in program history. The Blue Jays have since earned seven NCAA Tournament berths, two ECAC South titles and five more Centennial championships.
OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN
The Blue Jays will be led by captains Karen Guszkowski, Natalie Held and junior Allie Zazzali this season.
CENTENNIAL PRESEASON PICKS
Hopkins was picked to win its fifth consecutive Centennial Conference title in a preseason vote of the conference’s head coaches. The Blue Jays are searching for their fifth consecutive conference title and another NCAA Tournament berth. In 2008 the Blue Jays finished the season a program best 18-1-4 and their only loss came at the hands of William Smith in the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Tournament.
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