We had a wonderful freshman class that stepped up for the seniors we lost, and I think that's why we surprised a lot of people this year. We're looking forward to being even more successful next year.

I'm thrilled to be honored like this because this is my first year and I didn't really expect it. But I was handed a very strong and competitive group of girls. It was exciting they openly accepted me as their coach, and we had a fun year.

Claire puts a lot of hours in the pool and she works extremely hard, and because of that, she's developed a very efficient stroke; a very long, strong stroke that propels her through the water. She's also very competitive and hates to lose. She sets goals before every meet, and if she doesn't meet all of them, she's not happy. That's tremendous dedication. I think she's going to be a state champion some day.

The class has given me a completely different perspective on everything and I often continue to think about it outside of class, unlike many of my other academic classes. Professor Boleyn-Fitzgerald is a very knowledgeable and patient man, and he gives really good advice for people that are stuck.

The week before finals is always a hard time for a lot of students, and having class until three and adding on practice and working everyday really limits how much time you have to do schoolwork, so it definitely caught up to me. Sometimes all the work gets to be so overwhelming and it's really hard to keep up with it all, especially if you want to have a social life too.

A lot of people were really tired for class the next day. I've never seen anything like that before.