After one day of practice, it's a little hard to see who might develop. The first meet will give us a better idea.

Of course it's tough. We're used to it, though. We'd love to be outside, but for now, this will have to do.

The thing with track is that it's a numbers game. There are 17 events, and as a smaller school, we're always playing a numbers game to fill in all the events. Right now, that's our biggest problem.

Baseball, softball, track, boys golf; there are so many choices out there in the spring. It's tough because there are only so many kids going out for sports. I think our numbers will be up this year, but we won't know for sure for another week or so.

Every day they asked us about practice, flights, hotels, off-the-court stuff, everything. I said, 'Everybody on the team is cool, everybody's down to earth. Shaq, I told them he was funny. Everybody already heard that. I told them practice was hard, the flights were cool, hotels were top-of-the-line.

So far, so good. Practice has been going well. Coach Johnson tells us we are improving every day, so that is always good to hear.