Every one wants to un-seat us, and that's understandable. We're hoping to add another (title), but we're going to have some good competition out there. There are a lot of good girls out there swimming, and we'll see how the cards fall.

I'm going to cry here in a minute. I can't describe it. This is awesome. These kids are fantastic. They're great.

Our season is pretty much at a close anyway, but you want them to swim well. This is about getting those kids in who have the ability and are not quite there yet.

Both of us had the same response when we heard about this, ... It was kind of like, 'Been there, don't want to do that again.' Our whole lives, we both have lived with the potential of our father's death.

But Al brought us back,

Kennedy knows how to use traditional poetic forms to give us both joyful and truthful observations about the human condition. His sketches of people and experiences combine playful irreverence with language full of sound and rhythm, and refreshing bites of irony.