May 5, 2010
SAN DIEGO - Amber Pezzolla and Kelly Campoli both earned all-Mountain Pacific Sports Federation honors, the league announced Wednesday morning. Pezzolla was voted to the all-conference second team and all-MPSF freshman squad, while Campoli garnered all-league honorable mention accolades. The pair is being recognized by the MPSF for the first time in their careers.
Pezzolla, the San Dimas, Calif., native, started all 36 games for the Aztecs and led the team in scoring (54), assists (48), steals (78) and ejections drawn (59). The utility's 40-goal-40-assist-40-steal campaign is just the fourth since before the 2000 campaign and first since 2007. Pezzolla is also the first Aztec to lead the team in scoring, assists and steals in more than 11 years. In her first season on campus, not only did she lead all MPSF freshmen in scoring and ranked third in goals scored and 11th in goals per game, Pezzolla scored in a team-best 28 games, 15 of which were of the multiple-goal variety.
Campoli followed last year's All-America effort with an even better one in 2010. The goalkeeper made a career- and team-high 337 saves, marking her second consecutive season with more than 300 stops, and added 22 steals and 20 assists, while compiling a goals-against average of 6.96. The Lake Forest, Calif., product made 35 starts and held 28 of 36 opponents to nine goals or fewer. On a conference level, Campoli ranked first in total saves and second in saves per game. The sophomore is the first SDSU goalkeeper since Ashley Zabel in 2004 to earn all-MPSF recognition.
The two San Diego State honorees mark the fourth consecutive season in which multiple Aztecs have earned all-conference accolades. Pezzolla's all-freshman team appointment, meanwhile, is the second in school history and first since 2008 when Sarah Brady earned the award.
SDSU recently finished its season with a record of 21-15, its school-record fifth consecutive 20-win campaign.