The biggest challenge right now is funding. Israel doesn't fund the team until we qualify for the Olympics, so we'll have to raise funds along the way.

A challenge to the right of Israel to exist can be construed as a challenge to the existence of the Jewish people only if one believes that Israel alone keeps the Jewish people alive or that all Jews invest their sense of perpetuity in the state of Israel in its current or traditional forms.

Who knows what will happen? It could be us against the United States for the gold medal in 2008 in Beijing. How wonderful would that be?

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. A once-in-a-lifetime experience.

I got pretty close. Ultimately, I thought about it more as an athlete than as a coach. Not being a Division I coach, Olympic opportunities are limited. I didn't think it would ever happen.

She's just an awesome team player. She's mentally tough and such a competitor. She hates losing, and there's an energy about her that gets everyone behind her fired up.