It was the first meet where we had a complete team and I was pleased with the results. Kelsey just flat tore it up and just coasted the last 1,000 meters. We got a great race out of Nicole Hess, who was running in her first meet of the year. Sam Shepard also ran well. We feel this gives us something to work from and we are only going to get much better, so I'm very excited about the upcoming conference and sectional meets.

Al Eckert

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It was a great day for us. We beat a lot of ranked schools from Kentucky. Alex, obviously, ran an outstanding race. He is really coming on right now. Today was the most aggressive I've seen him run.

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Kelsey ran very strong and actually won with the two classes combined. Jessica and Sam, who are in there first year, continue to improve. We have three girls out with injuries and two more that are waiting to get in 10 practices, so hopefully we'll have a competitive team soon.

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The sectional is always so tough. Only the strong survive. We did well. Nine of our 12 guys got wins and it was nine to see so many guys win a match.

— Steve Eckert

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We've been working hard on Barbie, and we do feel better about Barbie, but we're not out of the woods yet. It's clearly better than another quarter of decline.

— Robert Eckert

On Barbie, we're not out of the woods yet, but I do feel better about where we are than I have for the past nine months.

— Robert Eckert