Everyone who has come before has set such a high standard - I want to keep that going as much as I can. And if it's in my power to do it, I'm going to try to.

Lizzie played really well and she's been playing amazing since she started. She keeps getting better.

We played at our top level. Within the first five minutes of the Fairfield game, we were up and we played like that the rest of the weekend.

I think we're building momentum. We have some freshmen starting and that's a big adjustment, but they're getting better each game. Hopefully, the momentum is just going to carry us through the rest of the season.

Part of the joy and pleasure of English is its boundless creativity: I can describe a new machine as bicyclish, I can say that I'm vitamining myself to stave off a cold, I can complain that someone is the smilingest person I've ever seen, and I can decide, out of the blue, that 'fetch' is now the word I want to use to mean 'cool.'

Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do.