Grade- C

After a promising 7-3 start, the Pack finished the season by recording just three goals during a nine game losing streak, finishing 7-12 on the season. The glaring negative for State was simply being overpowered in a conference with too much talent for the young Wolfpack to contain.

Despite outscoring opponents 28-26 throughout the season, a 1-9 ACC record proves that second year Coach Steve Springthorpe has his work cut out for him in the coming years. Springthorpe’s large freshman contingent was led by talented forward Jennie Krauser (5 Goals, 4 Assists) plus the solid defensive duo of Claudel Pilon and Randi Soldat (both started all 19 games).

Although being unable to end the year with a winning mark for the first time since 2002, the Pack will move towards the 2011 campaign with the services of keeper Kim Kern, target forward Tanya Cain, and all 13 freshmen that combined for nine goals and 12 assists on the year.

With just three ACC victories in the past two seasons, Springthorpe’s grace period for changing the culture of State’s struggling program is coming to a close as his core players develop. The bottom line: the success that Springthorpe harbored at Fresno State needs to show signs that it can translate at an ACC level.