It may be safe to say the Point Park University’s women’s golf team boasts its best recruiting class ever in 2011.The program will launch its third-overall campaign in the fall, and the team hopes one of its biggest recruits, Caroline Collins, will come in and make an instant impact.”When I first took over the program it was like June or July,” Point Park women’s golf Head Coach Gabe Bubon said. “I didn’t nearly have enough time to put together a recruiting class in that short time frame. On top of that, I wasn’t used to recruiting women’s golfers. Now that I have a full year under my belt, I’ve gotten used to it and we will now have a great recruiting class.”Collins, an Erie, Pa. native, will be one of five freshmen who will play on the 2011 team. She has garnered many honors throughout her three-year career as a golfer at Kennedy Catholic High School, including being selected to the Erie Times’ first-team for the past two.”I can honestly keep going down the list,” she said when asked about her many accomplishments. “I’m so excited to be coming to Point Park to begin my college career. My dad always wanted a boy and to see him go on to play college, but he has a girl and he’s so excited about me playing on the collegiate level.”Her father plays the game, professionally, as the golf director at Oak Tree Country Club in West Middlesex, Pa.In addition to her success on the course, Collins excels in the classroom with her 3.7 grade point average and an induction to the National Honor Society.She will be joined by Lauren Martauz (Younstown, Ohio), Chloe Callison (Dayton, Ohio), Rylin Gancia (Gateway, Pa.), and Emily Slifka (Derry, Pa.) in this year’s freshman class.”I’m really excited about the newcomers,” said Point Park rising sophomore Ashley Funkhouser, who acknowledges that this will be their opportunity to earn more respect. “When you go in the gym, you see a picture of (men’s star golfer) Austin Elder but you don’t see any pictures of us anywhere. Hopefully this will give us an opportunity to earn more respect as a team.”In two events so far this season, the Pioneers finished third out of four in the St. Vincent Invitational at Latrobe’s Glengarry Golf Links. Then, in their second and final match, the Grove City Invitational, they finished last out of a possible six spots on Sept. 25 at Grove City Country Club.They will play in two more tournaments without the 2011 class. One at the Notre Dame (Ohio) Invitational on April 7. And back to Glengarry take part in a second St. Vincent Invitational the very next week on April 15. “After the kind of struggles that we’ve had in the past, I feel it’s time that we begin to build on the things that have lagged,” Bubon said. “We feel that the people that we’ve brought in may change the culture of our team.”