The girls started thinking and got together. We were just a little more talented.

I'm happy for the girls. They've earned it, and they deserve it. It's significant. People are starting to see we've got a pretty good group here. Look at our record (9-0) against 2A schools. People finally started to look at that.

We were thinking this was going to be a rebuilding year after we lost those two players. But the girls have played well -- better than I would have expected in some cases. Danielle has been really good at No. 3 putting up a lot of 47s and 48s [for the nine-hole high school matches]. Ashley has been solid all season, and Kristi is outstanding. Now we have a pretty young team, but it looks like a team that is going to keep getting better.

We don't want the guys to think we're male-bashing or that we're thinking that guys should pay all girls bills, because that's not where we're coming from.

Both on the guys and girls side, tomorrow is where it counts. Those swimmers got to go a little bit easier today. The ones where we needed to have them go and swim fast, those kids swam fast.

Our girls were not afraid to go up against them in the races and swim.