Winning seven games last year was pretty big for us, and we made major improvements. Now we hope to keep building on that. I think people will be really surprised at how well we do this year. We have big goals.

When the girls are practicing their confidence level is much higher than last year, and we hope to see that in games. We just want the girls to challenge themselves every single game to get better.

Even more importantly, the way we're playing as a team and winning these Big Ten games. Penn State was a huge game for us. Now we're going on the road. Looking back to Penn State, that was just a huge team win.

After three years of not winning many games or going to the playoffs (with the Houston Texans), I wanted to come to a team that was winning. I believe I can help them get to that next level.

The losses we have had this year have been a lesson for us. We started winning some games over Spring Break after we sat down and had a team meeting. Nothing has changed on our end, I still think we will win our conference.

Every game we win is a surprise for us. But we're just proud winning games for the curling.