This is not picking on any one student athlete. This goes for all student athletes that are under that contract.

These girls are good athletes, not just good basketball players. We usually start slow in December. Things fell into place and we started to play good basketball.

We played some good teams with some good athletes, but I thought the intangible was our chemistry. There are no secrets with the X's and O's anymore, it's about guys believing in what they're doing and believing in each other. When you put your teammate before yourself and you don't want to let them down, you start playing above your head and maybe doing some things that normally you wouldn't be able to do. That's a lot of why we went 11-2.

This is another group of fine high school athletes. They come from good programs with good work ethics. Their high school programs have not only taught them the game, but also taught them what it takes to win. Bottom line, they are some really tough kids who will easily fit into our program and buy into what Bulldog football is all about.

It's a honor for the athletes and [their] thanking them for all the hard work that they have put in and the competitive nature that each of them have. It's always nice to be on a team.

Due to short prep time - some athletes had two days of practice thanks to successful basketball seasons - most of the coaches treated this as a scrimmage meet, with fewer entries than usual and basically getting all the new athletes familiar with a meet situation. The conference teams did this; St. Stephens didn't.