This story originally appeared in Cal's Football Kickoff Game Progam on Sept. 27, 2008.

By Dean Caparaz, California Media Relations

One is the team jokester off the field and a vocal leader on it, while the other is a quiet Golden Bear who leads by example. The California field hockey team has its share of personalities but none as contrasting as this pair of players.

Ashley Glosz, nicknamed Ash, and Andrea Lo, better known as Alo [AYE-low], are both senior midfielder/forwards and the players most responsible for starting Cal's attack. Through the first six games of the season, Lo and Glosz were Cal's top two scorers, as Lo tallied 12 points (4 goals, 4 assists) and Glosz had eight (3, 2), including one game-winning goal.

Each has earned her share of accolades. Glosz, a conservation and resource studies major, was named to the National Field Hockey Coaches Association's All-West Region second team, NorPac All-Conference first team, NorPac All-Tournament team and WomensFieldHockey.com's All-America third team in 2007. Lo, a three-time NorPac Offensive Player of the Week, garnered a spot on the 2007 NorPac All-Conference first team and the 2005 NFHCA Division I National Academic Squad.

A legal studies major, Lo spends much of her free time on her computer.

"It's fair to say Alo is serious or quiet," Cal head coach Shellie Onstead said. "She does love to dance, and she's not shy about that."

A product of West Vancouver, British Columbia, Lo is a Vancouver Canucks fan who played ice hockey growing up. She does have other outlets besides playing sports and dancing. The Brangelina fan follows the latest celebrity news, keeps up with the latest technology trends and blogs about her team on CalBears.com.

Glosz, Lo and senior defender Carolina Bistue have shared a house, nicknamed the "Palm," the last three years in Berkeley. Their house, where Cal lacrosse players Morgan Dyson and Elizabeth "T" Jahp also live, was featured in SportsIllustrated.com's "Campus Cribs" series two years ago.

"Alo is the quintessential roommate, the best roommate you could ever ask for," Glosz said. "Very neat, very clean, very respectful, very quiet. Whenever I come home, there's a 90 percent chance she's sitting at her computer, surfing the Internet or on Skype with her friends from Canada.

"When Alo's on her computer writing her blog, we're all sitting around her trying to get our names in it. It's fun, and I think it's a really, really great tool to keep fans, parents and maybe prospective athletes interactive with the team."

"If Alo is calm and understated, Ashley is high energy, always a few clicks ahead, and she always has that side of her that's a practical joker," Onstead said.

Glosz's antics have occasionally gotten under Onstead's skin. During a preseason team bonding exercise this year, the San Diego, Calif., native ended a skit with a back flip, which Onstead had banned her from doing after a failed attempt last year. "But before I could leap out of my seat and tackle her," Onstead said, "she attempted another standing back flip because she believes she can land it. I don't know if she ever has, and she has had a scab on the bridge of her nose since that night. She didn't make it."

Glosz is one of just two players whom Onstead has kicked out of practice in her 13-plus years as Cal head coach. The other is current Cal assistant and former Bears goalkeeper Kelly Knapp.

The Palm trio had a hand in Cal's biggest result of the season so far, an upset win over nationally-ranked Albany on Sept. 13 that propelled the Bears into the national coaches poll at No. 19. With Cal trailing 2-0, Lo scored Cal's first goal and, with seven seconds remaining, Glosz assisted on the tying goal to send the game into overtime. After the game was still tied at 2-2 through overtime, Glosz, Lo and Bistue each converted in penalty strokes to give Cal a 3-2 edge on strokes and a 3-2 overall victory.

Onstead points out that Glosz has matured through the years and that the same creative juices that make Glosz such a smart aleck in practice make her a creative, quick-thinking player on the field.

"You see a player like that in high school, and you think, `This one's going to be special,'" Onstead said. "She's still on that track, and that's great. Because her mind moves that quickly, she does really creative things on the field. She can sometimes be too far ahead and has to slow down and solve the immediate problem, and she's already solved three or four passes ahead. That's really unique, and that's something we're trying to help get the best out of.

"They complement each other well, because Alo is just solid, will make the simple solution and she'll execute, so they balance each other really well."