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I think our luck has changed. Last year, that shot would have gone in at the end - that's the kind o...
IAN VOUYOUKAS Big Walnut and Watkins Memorial are looking solid. They're all pretty good teams in this division. W...
BRAD HARRIS You win 17 games last year with a group of sophomores and we felt like we have a chance to be pretty...
BRAD STAMPS The guys have worked hard to be in this position at the end of the year. We had a tough schedule in ...
DOUG SHORT I think we have as good a shot as anybody at the end of this year. I think Decatur is going to be th...
DARRELL HARRIS We feel the pressure, but we felt that at the world championships last year, when no American team h...
BEN AGOSTO Winning Section II finals was a big accomplishment for us. We knew we should have won last year, but...
BOB JESMAIN Last year our outdoor team was the state runner up. I said at the end of last season, that this year...
JOE BIENASZ From the tip, we were just on fire. Last year, we couldn't buy a bucket (at the Coliseum); I remembe...
JOSH CASSADAY If somebody told me we would beat those teams ahead of time, I would be pretty positive about it but...
ANDREW DIDONATO It's always hard to break up a championship team. They are players that want to do well and that cre...
PATRICK MCVERRY It feels really good to get back. We felt like we should have gotten to the tournament last year. We...
FRED GRIFFIN The key last year was we didn't get to play at home. I've said it before and I'll say it until the d...
FRANK CHEEK She's won the Breeders Crown, she had those good races at the Meadowlands [in the Overbid series]; i...
ERV MILLER It was just a hard match to lose. Last year was good because we knew we had (this) year. This year, ...
NINA ALIMPIC This is our second consecutive victory at this meet. Last year we won with 80 points. This year we s...
DAVE HIRSHBRUNNER We kind of built for this year. My first year we played a lot of sophomores in the hope they would a...
MIKE LIEBDZINSKI Over here last year we had a heck of a battle with Male. Buckner hit a three to send it into overtim...
JASON COUCH Dobbins can be much better than last year. At this time last year, we didn't know where Dobbins woul...
DAN MCCARNEY We're a stronger team than we were last year. If we can play like we played tonight, we probably hav...
DAVE PINKOWSKI In my first years here, we had kids who couldn't catch the ball. But they really worked at it. Last ...
JOE LUSARDI In the end I got to use a lot of my young girls. We wanted to come out and fight to the end and we g...
FRED HOGAN Defensively we haven't had a lot of time to work, but I am encouraged with the hard work and effort....
DAVE BARROW Our guys just worked real hard. Knowing that it was the first league game this year, we wanted to ta...
ERIC STREFF This year has been a struggle for us, the way we are winning games. Nothing comes easy. We may have ...
DENIS FREEMAN Overall, this meet was good to reaffirm the kids that we could potentially have a good team this yea...
KIP JANVRIN That team is full of talent, ... We really won on the defensive end. If we play together, we can be ...
JERMAINE O'NEAL It's hard to believe that we won the division last year and this year we're out of it. But this year...
ODALIS PEREZ We had six juniors last year on the team, and now we have three seniors.
GARY TRITTIPOE They were really good in transition up and down the field. At the end of the first quarter, we tried...
JASON ANDALO These guys have worked real hard to be here. To represent our community like this, being the last (C...
ED HOOI Last year was really demanding. I just felt that at the end of the year I didn't have a lot of fire ...
BRIAN JAMES We had a shot at the end to tie against a great team. I think the roof would have come off this plac...
PAT AMBROSE This year, we have a real shot at winning a championship. We have everything it takes to win but a b...
RYAN SCHNITZ We felt we had a shot if we didn't dig ourselves a big hole. We played with a lot of heart and enthu...
CHAD BELVILLE I felt that it might have happened last year. I thought we had the team to do it.
GLENN GRAY We had a good team last year but you have to do the little things if you're going to win it this yea...
DALE HUNTER We had a good race this year, much better than last year (at county). I was not very happy at all la...
ANDREW HUDSON It was a good year for us. We accomplished what we wanted to accomplish. I wish we could have won th...
LUIS CAMACHO We felt good coming into the season. We all felt like we'd have a good team. We've all worked hard t...
DREW MILLER It was a true team effort. Its a good group of kids. They really worked hard this year.
BOB BAILEY The experience at state last year was fantastic. We wish it would have been a little more fantastic....
CAREY HAZELL It was real hard. I worked hard all year long and just to have a string of injuries toward the end o...
JOE DUBUQUE We have to carry on those feelings we had at the end of last year and bring them into this year.
JENNIFER HAMPTON We worked hard last year and we're working even harder this year.
VALERIE FLOURNOY I told the kids afterward that we were very successful in what we accomplished all season, because i...
MARK MCKENZIE It is a good start. Last year at this tournament we went 6-2 and went three games with everybody. Th...
BRET TAYLOR Because we only lost two players, we've definitely felt we were a stronger team than last year. (The...
SUE ADAMS We look at a number of different fitness factors. We look at their muscular strength, their muscular...
JENNIFER PEHMOELLER The girls had won (the district title) the last five years, and the boys won four of the last five (...
TINA JENSEN Everyone knows were a good team. We're the same team we were last year. We could have won either one...
DONNIE EDWARDS I felt we should have attacked the basket. It worked out perfect. We got the ball to Keith. He had p...
BILL SELF I think last year, yeah, we were grateful to be here. It was a dream to be here last year. But when ...
COURTNEY SCHUSTER If we can get 20 wins with this type of young team, I think we'll look back at the year as a real ac...
DENISE BIERLY I think there was a time last year and the year before when we were down in the cellar. We didn't ha...
JAY CUTLER Winners win and losers lose. We weren't winners. We're winners this year. We look at the game differ...
SHAUN ALEXANDER Our offense wasn't good toward the end and we just wanted to pull it out. We've really been working ...
SCOTT DEJONG I was proud that we didn't hang our heads and quit playing, because we could have done that at any t...
GAIL GLADDING We created a demand last year, we felt it was very important to meet that demand at least the same l...
JOANN HALEY Compared to last year, Joe has improved tremendously. He has worked hard over the summer, and it mea...
JOE SIECINSKI We felt we were along for the ride last year. We had seniors who carried us. This year, it was us in...
CANDICE WIGGINS Last year we held the prom for the first time at KOA and it worked out very well so we are holding i...
JEFF WURM We want to beat Reagan three times this year. We did that last year too, and it would be a nice thin...
JESSIE PETTIT We deserved that one lucky bounce at the end with how we've been working this year and everything th...
SASA CUIC![]()
They missed a field goal at the end that could have tied it up. That was probably the most dramatic ...
BOBBY BOWDEN![]()
If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL This season meant everything. We worked so hard to have a great senior year and it worked out. We've...
MICHAEL TOUDOUZE We had a lot of confidence that we would be able to pull the game out in the last two minutes. We ha...
BOB MARLIN Being able to rebuild the car was huge. It was a lot of work -- piece by piece, doing so many little...
BILL RILEY I think we did improve. It felt good to shut their team out and it helped our confidence. To allow z...
BRETT BELL I knew it was a championship team from last year. We weren't going to let it slip away this year.
JAMARR SANDERS We got second here last year. We have a better team this year because of our experience. Last year w...
STEVE HILL We know what those teams have accomplished in the past. But we want to win it all. We feel we have a...
ANTHONY WEEDEN We were all over them from the start, and Marquette was a tired hockey team at the end. I sold the k...
CARL VALIMONT [Despite making the playoffs last year, the team felt it could have achieved much more than they did...
ED BRADLEY Our failures in charity are chained to a narrowed vision of the world that makes too much of the dif...
REBECCA GOLDSTEIN Overall, it was a good meet. We're very optimistic. We have a much better team than last year. A top...
JOHN SAUERHAGE It's a statement to how hard we worked all summer. It's the same team as last year, we're just missi...
HAROLD RYAN I thought we'd have a good year. We were right at .500 last year on the season, and we got a pretty ...
AL MURDOCH We were pretty (bad) last year. I definitely think we have a better team this year.
BILL BULLOCK I think this year, being an Olympic year, we have learned in the past what not to do. Because usuall...
NANCY JOHNSON It was really special. I think we have a real good chance of having more success this year.
BILLY KELLY I was very impressed with my team overall this year. When you get a chance to really look back at it...
KRISTI HEAFNER Last year, there wasn't much team chemistry or leadership; it was just in small groups. We have a go...
AMANDA PADILLA I look back on it now and how tough it really was last year and as a team how hard we battled. All t...
LIZ SHIMEK We just have to believe that we are a great team and that last year has nothing to do with this year...
ERIN SULLIVAN I thought our team was ready. I would have never anticipated this. We worked hard the last two days ...
BRAD BROWNELL We would prefer to have won our first game at the beginning of the season. But we'll take it. What w...
DEREK ERGLE I thought this would be a tough year for us. We had a lot of new kids and it took longer than I thou...
JASON BECK We would like to have done it this year. It won?t be available, but I hope to have it next year. Tha...
FRED BRIGGS The kids had fun and it was real special for all of them because it was at home. If we were ever goi...
DON SMITH I think we have a very similar team to last year. We had a very young team last year yet they had a ...
TIM ABNEY![]()
If at the end of this year, if we have money, we may start replacing some of them,
JIM BACKUS We ran really well at Phoenix last year. That should be a good spot for our team.
CARL EDWARDS Two years ago was supposed to be a rebuilding year and we won it. Last year, you think we should hav...
MIKE TURNER That's the problem with the voting. We vote at the beginning of the year and don't (change) votes at...
TOMMY TUBERVILLE We shot this well last year as a regular occurrence. We haven't had it this year and it hasn't been ...
BOBBY RENZI If we have an atmosphere here this year like it was last year ... wow.
BILL STONEMAN I don't think anyone really expected this kind of game. But I felt at some point in the year, we cou...
RICH HULKOW We didn't know what to expect. Last year, we won. But we have different legs, so this is real exciti...
LAUREN BONDS
IAN VOUYOUKAS Big Walnut and Watkins Memorial are looking solid. They're all pretty good teams in this division. W...
BRAD HARRIS You win 17 games last year with a group of sophomores and we felt like we have a chance to be pretty...
BRAD STAMPS The guys have worked hard to be in this position at the end of the year. We had a tough schedule in ...
DOUG SHORT I think we have as good a shot as anybody at the end of this year. I think Decatur is going to be th...
DARRELL HARRIS We feel the pressure, but we felt that at the world championships last year, when no American team h...
BEN AGOSTO Winning Section II finals was a big accomplishment for us. We knew we should have won last year, but...
BOB JESMAIN Last year our outdoor team was the state runner up. I said at the end of last season, that this year...
JOE BIENASZ From the tip, we were just on fire. Last year, we couldn't buy a bucket (at the Coliseum); I remembe...
JOSH CASSADAY If somebody told me we would beat those teams ahead of time, I would be pretty positive about it but...
ANDREW DIDONATO It's always hard to break up a championship team. They are players that want to do well and that cre...
PATRICK MCVERRY It feels really good to get back. We felt like we should have gotten to the tournament last year. We...
FRED GRIFFIN The key last year was we didn't get to play at home. I've said it before and I'll say it until the d...
FRANK CHEEK She's won the Breeders Crown, she had those good races at the Meadowlands [in the Overbid series]; i...
ERV MILLER It was just a hard match to lose. Last year was good because we knew we had (this) year. This year, ...
NINA ALIMPIC This is our second consecutive victory at this meet. Last year we won with 80 points. This year we s...
DAVE HIRSHBRUNNER We kind of built for this year. My first year we played a lot of sophomores in the hope they would a...
MIKE LIEBDZINSKI Over here last year we had a heck of a battle with Male. Buckner hit a three to send it into overtim...
JASON COUCH Dobbins can be much better than last year. At this time last year, we didn't know where Dobbins woul...
DAN MCCARNEY We're a stronger team than we were last year. If we can play like we played tonight, we probably hav...
DAVE PINKOWSKI In my first years here, we had kids who couldn't catch the ball. But they really worked at it. Last ...
JOE LUSARDI In the end I got to use a lot of my young girls. We wanted to come out and fight to the end and we g...
FRED HOGAN Defensively we haven't had a lot of time to work, but I am encouraged with the hard work and effort....
DAVE BARROW Our guys just worked real hard. Knowing that it was the first league game this year, we wanted to ta...
ERIC STREFF This year has been a struggle for us, the way we are winning games. Nothing comes easy. We may have ...
DENIS FREEMAN Overall, this meet was good to reaffirm the kids that we could potentially have a good team this yea...
KIP JANVRIN That team is full of talent, ... We really won on the defensive end. If we play together, we can be ...
JERMAINE O'NEAL It's hard to believe that we won the division last year and this year we're out of it. But this year...
ODALIS PEREZ We had six juniors last year on the team, and now we have three seniors.
GARY TRITTIPOE They were really good in transition up and down the field. At the end of the first quarter, we tried...
JASON ANDALO These guys have worked real hard to be here. To represent our community like this, being the last (C...
ED HOOI Last year was really demanding. I just felt that at the end of the year I didn't have a lot of fire ...
BRIAN JAMES We had a shot at the end to tie against a great team. I think the roof would have come off this plac...
PAT AMBROSE This year, we have a real shot at winning a championship. We have everything it takes to win but a b...
RYAN SCHNITZ We felt we had a shot if we didn't dig ourselves a big hole. We played with a lot of heart and enthu...
CHAD BELVILLE I felt that it might have happened last year. I thought we had the team to do it.
GLENN GRAY We had a good team last year but you have to do the little things if you're going to win it this yea...
DALE HUNTER We had a good race this year, much better than last year (at county). I was not very happy at all la...
ANDREW HUDSON It was a good year for us. We accomplished what we wanted to accomplish. I wish we could have won th...
LUIS CAMACHO We felt good coming into the season. We all felt like we'd have a good team. We've all worked hard t...
DREW MILLER It was a true team effort. Its a good group of kids. They really worked hard this year.
BOB BAILEY The experience at state last year was fantastic. We wish it would have been a little more fantastic....
CAREY HAZELL It was real hard. I worked hard all year long and just to have a string of injuries toward the end o...
JOE DUBUQUE We have to carry on those feelings we had at the end of last year and bring them into this year.
JENNIFER HAMPTON We worked hard last year and we're working even harder this year.
VALERIE FLOURNOY I told the kids afterward that we were very successful in what we accomplished all season, because i...
MARK MCKENZIE It is a good start. Last year at this tournament we went 6-2 and went three games with everybody. Th...
BRET TAYLOR Because we only lost two players, we've definitely felt we were a stronger team than last year. (The...
SUE ADAMS We look at a number of different fitness factors. We look at their muscular strength, their muscular...
JENNIFER PEHMOELLER The girls had won (the district title) the last five years, and the boys won four of the last five (...
TINA JENSEN Everyone knows were a good team. We're the same team we were last year. We could have won either one...
DONNIE EDWARDS I felt we should have attacked the basket. It worked out perfect. We got the ball to Keith. He had p...
BILL SELF I think last year, yeah, we were grateful to be here. It was a dream to be here last year. But when ...
COURTNEY SCHUSTER If we can get 20 wins with this type of young team, I think we'll look back at the year as a real ac...
DENISE BIERLY I think there was a time last year and the year before when we were down in the cellar. We didn't ha...
JAY CUTLER Winners win and losers lose. We weren't winners. We're winners this year. We look at the game differ...
SHAUN ALEXANDER Our offense wasn't good toward the end and we just wanted to pull it out. We've really been working ...
SCOTT DEJONG I was proud that we didn't hang our heads and quit playing, because we could have done that at any t...
GAIL GLADDING We created a demand last year, we felt it was very important to meet that demand at least the same l...
JOANN HALEY Compared to last year, Joe has improved tremendously. He has worked hard over the summer, and it mea...
JOE SIECINSKI We felt we were along for the ride last year. We had seniors who carried us. This year, it was us in...
CANDICE WIGGINS Last year we held the prom for the first time at KOA and it worked out very well so we are holding i...
JEFF WURM We want to beat Reagan three times this year. We did that last year too, and it would be a nice thin...
JESSIE PETTIT We deserved that one lucky bounce at the end with how we've been working this year and everything th...
SASA CUIC
They missed a field goal at the end that could have tied it up. That was probably the most dramatic ... BOBBY BOWDEN
If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL This season meant everything. We worked so hard to have a great senior year and it worked out. We've...
MICHAEL TOUDOUZE We had a lot of confidence that we would be able to pull the game out in the last two minutes. We ha...
BOB MARLIN Being able to rebuild the car was huge. It was a lot of work -- piece by piece, doing so many little...
BILL RILEY I think we did improve. It felt good to shut their team out and it helped our confidence. To allow z...
BRETT BELL I knew it was a championship team from last year. We weren't going to let it slip away this year.
JAMARR SANDERS We got second here last year. We have a better team this year because of our experience. Last year w...
STEVE HILL We know what those teams have accomplished in the past. But we want to win it all. We feel we have a...
ANTHONY WEEDEN We were all over them from the start, and Marquette was a tired hockey team at the end. I sold the k...
CARL VALIMONT [Despite making the playoffs last year, the team felt it could have achieved much more than they did...
ED BRADLEY Our failures in charity are chained to a narrowed vision of the world that makes too much of the dif...
REBECCA GOLDSTEIN Overall, it was a good meet. We're very optimistic. We have a much better team than last year. A top...
JOHN SAUERHAGE It's a statement to how hard we worked all summer. It's the same team as last year, we're just missi...
HAROLD RYAN I thought we'd have a good year. We were right at .500 last year on the season, and we got a pretty ...
AL MURDOCH We were pretty (bad) last year. I definitely think we have a better team this year.
BILL BULLOCK I think this year, being an Olympic year, we have learned in the past what not to do. Because usuall...
NANCY JOHNSON It was really special. I think we have a real good chance of having more success this year.
BILLY KELLY I was very impressed with my team overall this year. When you get a chance to really look back at it...
KRISTI HEAFNER Last year, there wasn't much team chemistry or leadership; it was just in small groups. We have a go...
AMANDA PADILLA I look back on it now and how tough it really was last year and as a team how hard we battled. All t...
LIZ SHIMEK We just have to believe that we are a great team and that last year has nothing to do with this year...
ERIN SULLIVAN I thought our team was ready. I would have never anticipated this. We worked hard the last two days ...
BRAD BROWNELL We would prefer to have won our first game at the beginning of the season. But we'll take it. What w...
DEREK ERGLE I thought this would be a tough year for us. We had a lot of new kids and it took longer than I thou...
JASON BECK We would like to have done it this year. It won?t be available, but I hope to have it next year. Tha...
FRED BRIGGS The kids had fun and it was real special for all of them because it was at home. If we were ever goi...
DON SMITH I think we have a very similar team to last year. We had a very young team last year yet they had a ...
TIM ABNEY
If at the end of this year, if we have money, we may start replacing some of them, JIM BACKUS We ran really well at Phoenix last year. That should be a good spot for our team.
CARL EDWARDS Two years ago was supposed to be a rebuilding year and we won it. Last year, you think we should hav...
MIKE TURNER That's the problem with the voting. We vote at the beginning of the year and don't (change) votes at...
TOMMY TUBERVILLE We shot this well last year as a regular occurrence. We haven't had it this year and it hasn't been ...
BOBBY RENZI If we have an atmosphere here this year like it was last year ... wow.
BILL STONEMAN I don't think anyone really expected this kind of game. But I felt at some point in the year, we cou...
RICH HULKOW We didn't know what to expect. Last year, we won. But we have different legs, so this is real exciti...
LAUREN BONDS
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