I'm confident we'll be strong defensively after we get a few games under our belt.

I was just really pleased to see them contribute as freshmen.

She might be the most naturally talented player we've got. She has a natural instinct for the game. She started getting more confident through freshman year and scored some big goals against quality opponents.

The effect was overnight. Traditionally in the marketing world, it takes weeks or even months to generate acceptable awareness and traffic. Here we saw traffic spike overnight.

Last year, our goal was to win at least three games, because that's something no Division 1 team without a senior class had ever done before. We ended up 2-7, which didn't sit well with anybody around here. We have everybody returning from last year's team and a lot of them have game experience, which puts us in a unique situation this season.

There were some games that things weren't working very well, we weren't getting the protections, and we had to be a little bit more conservative. But there were times I felt we could have opened it up a little bit more.