I was blown away. I knew the kids were really motivated. We had reached our goal before lunch and we only had two grade levels who came in with their money at that point.

We'll probably make it $10,000 just to see if we can do it.

It was great. We raised a lot of money that way.

He's the exact back we're looking for at our wingback, ... He'll make one or two kids miss, and then he's off to the races.

After the game, I told the kids that nobody feels sorry for themselves and not to hang their head. We just have to respond to this and put the game behind us. We need a victory on Saturday.

There's a lot of neat things that is involved in this. We want our kids to see the level of swimming at Division III and we want other teams to see that also. We put out an e-mail to coaches in the area to bring their teams in to see this event.