We have a real exciting team this year. We will be depending on seven freshmen . . . and with some of the other kids we have, we think we can be very competitive at a high level.

I was really pleased with how well we competed tonight. I think this will help us continue to move up in the rankings. This will give us even more confidence to get to where we want to go.

Nicole is one of those kids that's going to win many meets for us. She just wanted to do really good for the team [with Orlando out], and I think she got frustrated with herself. I just didn't want to see her take another fall on that routine.

The meet really looked worse than it was. We had to count a full point in falls, while [Stanford] had a perfect meet and beat us by four-tenths [of a point].

We put it all out on the floor and I really went after it. That was the second-place team in the country and we lost by seventy five-one hundredths of a point.

We won't figure out our lineup until we get to Washington and go through warm-ups before the meet.