Johns Hopkins Blue Jays
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| Blue Jays | |
| University | Johns Hopkins University |
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| Conference | Centennial Conference |
| NCAA | NCAA Division I (Men's & Women's Lacrosse) & NCAA Division III |
| Athletics director | Tom Calder |
| Location | Baltimore, MD |
| Varsity teams | |
| Football stadium | Homewood Field |
| Basketball arena | |
| Mascot | Blue Jay |
| Nickname | Blue Jays |
| Fight song | |
| Colors | Columbia blue and Black
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| Homepage | Hopkins Sports |
The Johns Hopkins University's intercollegiate sports teams are called the Blue Jays (after the bird Blue Jay), and they compete in the NCAA's Division III, except for the Lacrosse teams that compete in Division I. They are primarily members of the Centennial Conference. The team colors are Columbia blue and black, and the Blue Jay is their mascot. Homewood Field is the home stadium.
Hopkins celebrates Homecoming in the spring to coincide with the height of the lacrosse season. The Lacrosse Museum and National Hall of Fame, governed by US Lacrosse, is located on the Homewood campus and is adjacent to Homewood Field. Past Johns Hopkins lacrosse teams have represented the United States in international competition. At the 1932 Summer Olympics lacrosse demonstration event Hopkins played for the US. They have also gone to Melbourne, Australia to win the 1974 World Lacrosse Championship.
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[edit] 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. Luckily, Blue Jays are black-and-blue birds that can be spotted in Homewood, providing a perfect match.
[edit] Men's Athletics
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Crew
- Cross Country
- Fencing
- Field Hockey
- Football
- Lacrosse
- Soccer
- Swimming
- Tennis
- Track & Field (Indoor and Outdoor)
- Water Polo
- Wrestling
[edit] Women's Athletics
- Basketball
- Crew
- Cross Country
- Fencing
- Lacrosse
- Soccer
- Swimming
- Tennis
- Track & Field (Indoor and Outdoor)
- Volleyball
- Water Polo
[edit] Championships
The school's most prominent sports team is its men's lacrosse team, which has won 44 national titles - nine NCAA Division I (2007, 2005, 1987, 1985, 1984, 1980, 1979, 1978, 1974), 29 USILA, and six ILA titles. Hopkins' primary national lacrosse rivals are Princeton University, Syracuse University, the University of Virginia and has a budding rivalry with Duke University due to intense recent competition, including 1 point victories over the Blue Devils in both the 2005 and 2007 NCAA Championships; its primary intrastate rivals are Loyola College, Towson University, the United States Naval Academy, and the University of Maryland. The rivalry with Maryland is the most prominent in college lacrosse; the schools have met 104 times, with two of those meetings in the playoffs.
Hopkins also has an acclaimed fencing team, which has ranked in the top three of Division III teams in the past few years and in 2007 defeated University of North Carolina, a Division I team, for the first time. The Swimming team also has ranked in the top two of Division III for the last 10 years. Hopkins also has a century-old rivalry with McDaniel College (formerly Western Maryland College), playing the Green Terrors 83 times in football since the first game in 1894.
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