Yet the hardest part of changing from an offensive to a defensive position was mental not physical. Kingsberg says, "Last year I always felt nostalgic when the forward would score and I had to run 100 yards to pat their backs."

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Kingsberg also had difficulty adapting to the fullback's preventive role. "A forward gets to do something positive by scoring but a fullback can only do something wrong. It's more of a failure to let a goal go through than to miss a shot," she says.

Because of this attitude, the Government major finds it particularly satisfying to keep the opposition scoreless. So far this season, the Crimson has accumulated eight shut outs in 16 games, including the match against the University of Massachusetts in the Easterns when Harvard became the first team in two years to keep the Minutemen off the scoreboard.

Scalise credits Kingsberg's successful transition to fullback to her "good spirits--she doesn't get frustrated when things go wrong but keeps going at it until she improves her game."

Still, Kingsberg's devotion to her defensive position wanes on Wednesdays when the team scrimmages and she insists on playing forward.

"(Assistant Coach) Scott Anderson teases me that I won't be happy unless I get my three goals for the week," Kingsberg says