Daily Staff Writer

Jo Hinks is not the most vocal person. So it is only fitting when she scored four goals in her first game for the Iowa State women’s soccer team that she did not do a lot of celebrating or hollering.

Hinks scored the hat trick plus one against Westmar last Friday in a 6-1 victory.

“Jo Hinks is a quiet but powerful leader,” her Coach Cathy Klein said. “She is someone the team looks to when we’re playing a game, a field leader.”

Powerful words for a soft-spoken individual from Burlington, Ontario, Canada who transferred to ISU this season after playing two years at Florida International.

Hinks said it did not take her long to fit into a team that features 11 freshmen on a roster of 23.

“It has not been difficult to fit into the team because there are a lot of new players on the team,” she said. “I think it’s harder for the freshmen because they don’t know what to expect. “

With so many new faces on the team, Hinks said the experience playing Division I soccer for two seasons at Florida International has helped her get into the flow of the game.

“I know what to expect whereas some of the freshmen don’t,” she said.

Klein said the experience Hinks brings is something that has rubbed off on the other players on the team.

“Jo is a great mentor for the other players on the team,” Klein said.

Klein said she was not surprised at Hinks’ four-goal outburst in the first game of the season.

“I had not actually seen her play before she transferred, but I knew she had the reputation of being a natural goal-scorer,” she said. “So far in the season she has proven that she is definitely a gamer. She has turned up the level of her play during game situations.”

Iowa State followed the 6-1 conquest of Westmar with a 6-1 loss to Nebraska Sunday. Which performance by Hinks was Klein more impressed with, the 6-1 victory or the 6-0 loss?

“I think Jo showed me a lot more character in the Nebraska game by the way she kept playing her hardest no matter what the score was,” Klein said. “It takes a lot more character to play hard in a 6-0 loss than to score four goals in a 6-1 win.”