It was a beautiful area. We got more of a rural feel. Their elementary and middle schools were just beautiful.

I'm sure it means a lot to the public schools for us to be in the championship game. But that's not something we were thinking about. We did this for our community. Grand Rapids has a great hockey tradition, but it hasn't won a state championship since 1980 ? isn't that when it was? ? and we'd like to give the town another championship this year.

It is important to start building new hospitals and schools as soon as possible but it's most urgent to save the lives of thousands of children who could then make use of these schools.

He wanted all sports to be successful. We just felt his support was unwavering.

We also got to spend a weekend living in a home with a family.

I was very impressed by that. They were just very self-disciplined.