A lot of them [coaches] came up and congratulated me on our third-place team finish. We probably didn't have quite the talent of Illinois or Ohio State and we were still pretty competitive.

There's probably not many coaches in the state who can say their team has not given up a regulation goal at this point. That's a long time in a soccer game.

He congratulated me and said the easy part is making the team, ... But the harder part is sticking around. Now is the time to start the real work. That really meant a lot coming from a guy that good.

I think we've been probably disrespected more than any team in the league this year.

Only two teams finish the season with a win -- the team that wins the state title and the third-place finisher. The fact that we ended up where we did, I think we surpassed what many people thought we could accomplish. That's a credit to our girls.

I'm tickled. Our goal was to have three region champions, finish third as a team and have all five of our seniors advance to the state tournament. Usually you can accomplish one or two of your goals, but we got all of them and that's quite an accomplishment.