In coach Jeff Cook’s first season at Penn State, his team never lost a game by more than two goals.
However, in this year’s opener against No. 5 Stanford, his side was dominated in a 5-0 loss.
For a team with 13 new faces, it could have taken the loss with dismay or used it as motivation, taken the positives out of it and moved forward collectively as a whole.
They chose the latter.
After Penn State’s 4-1 win at Stony Brook, the Nittany Lions headed to Orlando for a battle with UCF. The two sides faced each other last season in last year’s home opener, but Penn State was defeated in double overtime, 2-1, in Jeff Cook’s Penn State coaching debut.