I was really pleased with how well we competed tonight. I think this will help us continue to move up in the rankings. This will give us even more confidence to get to where we want to go.

Nicole is one of those kids that's going to win many meets for us. She just wanted to do really good for the team [with Orlando out], and I think she got frustrated with herself. I just didn't want to see her take another fall on that routine.

We have a real exciting team this year. We will be depending on seven freshmen . . . and with some of the other kids we have, we think we can be very competitive at a high level.

Ultimately, the teams will help us to develop a truly compelling design for the World Trade Center site -- a grand and majestic vision that inspires awe while respectfully memorializing the lives lost on September 11th. And I promise you this: it will be glorious.

I think these guys can help us.

The meet really looked worse than it was. We had to count a full point in falls, while [Stanford] had a perfect meet and beat us by four-tenths [of a point].