Cultivate connections [and] talk to your professors.

We talk to them about the impression they make on their professors, and how they should not go to their classes looking like slobs and sit in the back and fall asleep. They have to prepare themselves for what's next. None of them are going to be professional athletes, so they'd better be thinking about a bigger picture than where are we going tonight to have fun. Unfortunately, that overwhelms the thought process for a lot of them.

Basically, we have been practicing this whole semester for nothing. One incident has caused us to have to rework everything. We are going back to middle school stuff.

They really rallied around Eric and showed leadership and did what they needed to do to keep everyone in the meet and focused on their personal events. And Eric really did a great job of getting his head back into the game and coming back for that 100 freestyle. That's a really hard thing for a senior to go through.

I think they're really proud of their effort today. It was really a great second effort coming off of yesterday. We had to make sure our relays were ready and that they weren't holding anything back, and we got great swims out of all those relays.

I'm super proud of the boys. We had awesome swims today, spectacular swims actually. We moved up places in some events and everybody just did excellent. It was a really, really fun day.