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It's basically 9 percent more over what we thought we needed last year. We can talk about an increas...
LIZ BROWN What these kids have done over the last six days was special. Everyone was nervous because we all kn...
BOB LAVIN The main difference this year is I feel that I'm more important to the team. We lost some good post ...
KELSEY ASSARIAN I didn't do 'Orange' because I knew it was good. I wanted to do this because it feels go...
SAMIRA WILEY I think last year might have been a surprise, because last year, there was a thought that he could p...
LYNN WASHOWICH I think last year, yeah, we were grateful to be here. It was a dream to be here last year. But when ...
COURTNEY SCHUSTER We're all just pretty disappointed. It was a long year, a tough year, a disappointing year. We're a ...
KYLE KORVER They told us that her liver was so bad that medicine wasn't going to help it and she needed a liver ...
BETHANY NICHOLSON Am I 53 or 54? I think I'm 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I'll be 55.
CHARLES KEATING This was a big deal. I think we underestimated them last year. We knew what to expect from them this...
ALLISON GENGLER I got what I needed out of Princeton in 1 year, and I didn't think it was useful.
MANOJ BHARGAVA This was a good chance to get an early win that'll help us later in the year. It's definitely what w...
ALEX HUME This was a big game and being a freshman, I knew I needed confidence. I had confidence, and I just n...
ALLY JENSEN We saw what needed to be done and we did it. We all have it in us to help out, and I was glad to do ...
GARY MCDONALD We needed a game of this nature. We would have liked a little more of a challenge but it lifted thei...
ADAM ALLERTON I knew coming in that playing this team, win or lose, was going to be good for us. We needed this, w...
BILL STRAND It was just a hard match to lose. Last year was good because we knew we had (this) year. This year, ...
NINA ALIMPIC![]()
This was absolutely, really needed because we were doing really badly this year.
ANDY SERKIS We had to start working on what we needed to get done for this year last year. We started working th...
BOBBY DEBERRY She averaged six goals a game last year. But I don't think she's had more than one a game this year....
JACKIE SPACK I think this was the last bit of information that we needed.
PAUL NIETO![]()
We've done a much better job this year with our shooting. I felt like that was the biggest area of i...
ED SMITH We knew what we wanted at the beginning of the year. This was the best way I could think of to go ou...
ANDY POLKA But I don't think we're as focused as last year. Last year, we knew what we had to do. This year, si...
BRIAN ROLLE We thought last year we clearly won the race. We cleared the course this year and made sure we knew ...
KAREL TRESNAK JR This was exactly what I suspected. Yes, I was worried because this was a district game, but also bec...
JOSE PEREZ I was terrible my first year. In 10th grade I was still bad, but the team needed someone that small....
ERIC JOHNSON I think it's been a very good trade for us in that we needed a change in our season. What was happen...
RICK ADELMAN It's hard because I think we know what to expect, but Santa Fe Indian School was the first game of t...
GERALD HORACEK Monica was very tough in the middle for us this year and she was a pest on defense. She did exactly ...
WERNER CHRISTEN It was a good year for us. We accomplished what we wanted to accomplish. I wish we could have won th...
LUIS CAMACHO I knew this day was coming. I knew he was going to do this at some point, somewhere, and people woul...
EVAN BROCK I thought this would be a tough year for us. We had a lot of new kids and it took longer than I thou...
JASON BECK He took second last year, so I'm happy with it. I was down, and needed to score. I kept fighting.
DYLAN CARR I felt like I had to do it. We really wanted this bad and the girls who were with us last year reall...
LAUREN WITHERSPOON I knew it was a championship team from last year. We weren't going to let it slip away this year.
JAMARR SANDERS Last year was like a different language. This year we all knew what we were doing.
JAKE HUTTON We knew coming into this year that the bar was raised, and I think we all knew what we wanted to do....
BRANDON STEPHENSON I will always think about what we could've done to win that game. But I think it just gives us more ...
CRYSTAL MURDAUGH When I got there last year he was mostly a low post player, but watching him in practice I knew he c...
EMANUEL BROWN Joel knew this was his last gig of the year and I think he had a little more mustard on the ball.
JAMIE KEEFE This year was harder because everyone was getting ready for us, spending much more time for our game...
GRETA LUKSYTE I think I've gotten more confidence in myself this year. I have changed mentally from three years ag...
DANIELLE ULTICAN That game hurt a lot. I took it personally. I should have done better than I did. I thought about it...
CHRISTY ALTAMIRANO It was something I looked forward to. I knew what I was coming into. I knew we lost nine seniors. I ...
JAQUAN BRAY Last year, as great as it was, it was like a fairy tale season. I think we appreciate this a heck of...
KYLE WHITTINGHAM It was a great win for him. He didn't have a lot of success last year and needed confidence. This wi...
JEFF STOVER I wanted to play my last game here and I was hoping for a repeat of last year when I shut out Everet...
BRYAN BRIDGES The win was really important for us. Coming off a tough season last year, one of the biggest things ...
LUKE BEAL I felt like it was a big enough moment in the game where we needed to get something going. Right whe...
JEFF FRANCOEUR I was most happy to see us play with great effort and great passion, ... Sure, absolutely (last year...
GARY CAMPBELL He was a consistent 20 points for us every night. Last year he had 45 in a game. This year was more ...
SHANE TUCKER There was no specific criteria, but [the administration] wanted to see a marked improvement, and I t...
CATEY MARK I knew before the game, I knew if they needed a long one he would make it because he was getting it ...
MARK MATLAK Last year I was crying because it was so unexpected. Now, it's more of a relief because now we can m...
KARA HUYSER We felt we needed to come back home and get this win. It was a much-needed win after last night. We ...
EDDIE JONES We just knew we needed to be more focused on winning this tournament. Tattnall played a good game ag...
RACHAEL ACKERMAN We had gotten good defense and good pitching all year. But it was a great game by Shelby. This group...
ERIC KING Maria had a great tournament and was really consistent all three days. She makes everyone around her...
KIM EVANS It was pretty tough. I was expecting a tough game because I knew they had some returning seniors tha...
LAUREL SCHULTHEIS Last year one of our problems was we'd win a game and show up and play terrible the next game. Tonig...
DEREK WAUGH It was a crucial part of the game and I just knew someone needed to step up. What better time than t...
HANNAH BREIDEL Some of it was depth. We had some injuries to key people. I think we have a little more balance this...
DONNA MARTIN I was real timid last year, but this year I was asked to step, and that's what I know I have to do.
ISIAH MARTINEZ It was very nice. We knew we had to win for the fans. They've been behind us all year, and we wanted...
KAM WHITE I was beginning to think I would never win again, but last year I was on the podium four times and t...
KALLE PALANDER I think it was a relief that we went to the finals last year, didn't win, but did this year. We didn...
LORI DANIEL Us seniors didn't want it to be our last game. I think we wanted it more than them at the end. It wa...
MATT ARNOLD This one was more nerve-wracking than last year, because I'm retiring from diving after nine years. ...
THOMAS EVANS To him, money was like the toy bank notes in Monopoly: he wanted it, not for what it could buy, but ...
KEN FOLLET By the end of the year when we needed points and were not scoring, we went in to Tai and she was dom...
ANDY MORRIS We might have to do some of that a little more this year. We didn't really hit and run last year, ev...
DAVE FARR Last year, he was pretty much a role player, but this year his role certainly changed. Offensively, ...
DAVE MACDONALD I had a quarterback that had a year off. He needed those snaps, ... I wanted to get as many viable s...
BRIAN BILLICK I think it helped, ... It was hot out there and we needed everyone to get it done.
GREG ELLIS We knew we wanted to be downtown. We felt like we needed to go with home accessories. We wanted to c...
LESLEIGH DRYE I knew at that point, I was in desperate trouble, and I knew I was sick and needed help. And I still...
MELANIE MORGAN Last year was hard, because we had just finished playing another hard game the night before. We real...
BRANDY WILLIAMS This year seems to be more business as usual for online retailers. Last year people went online beca...
LISA STRAND He wrestled with it the rest of the year, but there was a point where he wanted to quit. I was talki...
CHAD POWELL We wanted to come down here and do better than we did last year. This was not the kind of game that ...
AL NORTHINGTON He's always been a good wrestler, but I think he matured a lot more as a wrestler this year. A lot o...
KYLE GRAICHEN Our game plan was to put a lot of pressure on them. We needed to show them the type of defense that ...
LINDA KILPATRICK I am happy to have won it, knowing that it was a tough year. Last year, I knew all but one (word). T...
JONATHAN HORTON Our team needed this. We needed a break-out game, so it was good therapy for us. It helped restore s...
DOYLE GEDDES Sometimes, I even think we could take it a little more serious, but this is working. I think we're m...
BRIANNA GERRIOR That was huge for us because to that point right there I wasn't sure what kind of kids I had this ye...
MARCELO ENRIQUEZ It was just one more push that I needed to go through. Even though we have been struggling a little ...
BEN WISSEL![]()
His purpose was to get done what needed to be done, and what needed to be done was simple, if not ea...
LARRY MCMURTRY That was definitely a crazy game. I think it was just about last year, we didn't want to feel that w...
ERIC ELLIS This was a big step for us. I think about where we were last year, we didn't even make the WIAC tour...
JOE WERNER This was something we said early on we could do. I was proud of the way our kids played tonight. We ...
JAY WELK It was a team effort, and we got the win we needed at home. We knew they wanted to get one of two he...
JOSH HARDING Obviously, we were 4-12 for a reason last year. I think Jeff did what he thought needed to be done. ...
JEFF FAINE We've come together the last couple of week because we needed to. We knew we couldn't mess around an...
HEATHER BROWN Everyone knew I was anti-marriage. I'd spent my life saying it was something I neither wanted no...
ORLA BRADY In the dugout we were acting like was a 0-0 ball game and we knew we needed more runs.
ELIZABETH KAISER I was all done. I was so aggravated by what we saw last year, I said that's it, we're not going back...
CHRIS BABY I worked hard at my four-year M.A., but got a 2.1. That was a big disappointment, as I wanted to wri...
SAUL DAVID I'm a lifetime resident of this area. I just knew it was badly needed.
DAVE SMITH
LIZ BROWN What these kids have done over the last six days was special. Everyone was nervous because we all kn...
BOB LAVIN The main difference this year is I feel that I'm more important to the team. We lost some good post ...
KELSEY ASSARIAN I didn't do 'Orange' because I knew it was good. I wanted to do this because it feels go...
SAMIRA WILEY I think last year might have been a surprise, because last year, there was a thought that he could p...
LYNN WASHOWICH I think last year, yeah, we were grateful to be here. It was a dream to be here last year. But when ...
COURTNEY SCHUSTER We're all just pretty disappointed. It was a long year, a tough year, a disappointing year. We're a ...
KYLE KORVER They told us that her liver was so bad that medicine wasn't going to help it and she needed a liver ...
BETHANY NICHOLSON Am I 53 or 54? I think I'm 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I'll be 55.
CHARLES KEATING This was a big deal. I think we underestimated them last year. We knew what to expect from them this...
ALLISON GENGLER I got what I needed out of Princeton in 1 year, and I didn't think it was useful.
MANOJ BHARGAVA This was a good chance to get an early win that'll help us later in the year. It's definitely what w...
ALEX HUME This was a big game and being a freshman, I knew I needed confidence. I had confidence, and I just n...
ALLY JENSEN We saw what needed to be done and we did it. We all have it in us to help out, and I was glad to do ...
GARY MCDONALD We needed a game of this nature. We would have liked a little more of a challenge but it lifted thei...
ADAM ALLERTON I knew coming in that playing this team, win or lose, was going to be good for us. We needed this, w...
BILL STRAND It was just a hard match to lose. Last year was good because we knew we had (this) year. This year, ...
NINA ALIMPIC
This was absolutely, really needed because we were doing really badly this year. ANDY SERKIS We had to start working on what we needed to get done for this year last year. We started working th...
BOBBY DEBERRY She averaged six goals a game last year. But I don't think she's had more than one a game this year....
JACKIE SPACK I think this was the last bit of information that we needed.
PAUL NIETO
We've done a much better job this year with our shooting. I felt like that was the biggest area of i... ED SMITH We knew what we wanted at the beginning of the year. This was the best way I could think of to go ou...
ANDY POLKA But I don't think we're as focused as last year. Last year, we knew what we had to do. This year, si...
BRIAN ROLLE We thought last year we clearly won the race. We cleared the course this year and made sure we knew ...
KAREL TRESNAK JR This was exactly what I suspected. Yes, I was worried because this was a district game, but also bec...
JOSE PEREZ I was terrible my first year. In 10th grade I was still bad, but the team needed someone that small....
ERIC JOHNSON I think it's been a very good trade for us in that we needed a change in our season. What was happen...
RICK ADELMAN It's hard because I think we know what to expect, but Santa Fe Indian School was the first game of t...
GERALD HORACEK Monica was very tough in the middle for us this year and she was a pest on defense. She did exactly ...
WERNER CHRISTEN It was a good year for us. We accomplished what we wanted to accomplish. I wish we could have won th...
LUIS CAMACHO I knew this day was coming. I knew he was going to do this at some point, somewhere, and people woul...
EVAN BROCK I thought this would be a tough year for us. We had a lot of new kids and it took longer than I thou...
JASON BECK He took second last year, so I'm happy with it. I was down, and needed to score. I kept fighting.
DYLAN CARR I felt like I had to do it. We really wanted this bad and the girls who were with us last year reall...
LAUREN WITHERSPOON I knew it was a championship team from last year. We weren't going to let it slip away this year.
JAMARR SANDERS Last year was like a different language. This year we all knew what we were doing.
JAKE HUTTON We knew coming into this year that the bar was raised, and I think we all knew what we wanted to do....
BRANDON STEPHENSON I will always think about what we could've done to win that game. But I think it just gives us more ...
CRYSTAL MURDAUGH When I got there last year he was mostly a low post player, but watching him in practice I knew he c...
EMANUEL BROWN Joel knew this was his last gig of the year and I think he had a little more mustard on the ball.
JAMIE KEEFE This year was harder because everyone was getting ready for us, spending much more time for our game...
GRETA LUKSYTE I think I've gotten more confidence in myself this year. I have changed mentally from three years ag...
DANIELLE ULTICAN That game hurt a lot. I took it personally. I should have done better than I did. I thought about it...
CHRISTY ALTAMIRANO It was something I looked forward to. I knew what I was coming into. I knew we lost nine seniors. I ...
JAQUAN BRAY Last year, as great as it was, it was like a fairy tale season. I think we appreciate this a heck of...
KYLE WHITTINGHAM It was a great win for him. He didn't have a lot of success last year and needed confidence. This wi...
JEFF STOVER I wanted to play my last game here and I was hoping for a repeat of last year when I shut out Everet...
BRYAN BRIDGES The win was really important for us. Coming off a tough season last year, one of the biggest things ...
LUKE BEAL I felt like it was a big enough moment in the game where we needed to get something going. Right whe...
JEFF FRANCOEUR I was most happy to see us play with great effort and great passion, ... Sure, absolutely (last year...
GARY CAMPBELL He was a consistent 20 points for us every night. Last year he had 45 in a game. This year was more ...
SHANE TUCKER There was no specific criteria, but [the administration] wanted to see a marked improvement, and I t...
CATEY MARK I knew before the game, I knew if they needed a long one he would make it because he was getting it ...
MARK MATLAK Last year I was crying because it was so unexpected. Now, it's more of a relief because now we can m...
KARA HUYSER We felt we needed to come back home and get this win. It was a much-needed win after last night. We ...
EDDIE JONES We just knew we needed to be more focused on winning this tournament. Tattnall played a good game ag...
RACHAEL ACKERMAN We had gotten good defense and good pitching all year. But it was a great game by Shelby. This group...
ERIC KING Maria had a great tournament and was really consistent all three days. She makes everyone around her...
KIM EVANS It was pretty tough. I was expecting a tough game because I knew they had some returning seniors tha...
LAUREL SCHULTHEIS Last year one of our problems was we'd win a game and show up and play terrible the next game. Tonig...
DEREK WAUGH It was a crucial part of the game and I just knew someone needed to step up. What better time than t...
HANNAH BREIDEL Some of it was depth. We had some injuries to key people. I think we have a little more balance this...
DONNA MARTIN I was real timid last year, but this year I was asked to step, and that's what I know I have to do.
ISIAH MARTINEZ It was very nice. We knew we had to win for the fans. They've been behind us all year, and we wanted...
KAM WHITE I was beginning to think I would never win again, but last year I was on the podium four times and t...
KALLE PALANDER I think it was a relief that we went to the finals last year, didn't win, but did this year. We didn...
LORI DANIEL Us seniors didn't want it to be our last game. I think we wanted it more than them at the end. It wa...
MATT ARNOLD This one was more nerve-wracking than last year, because I'm retiring from diving after nine years. ...
THOMAS EVANS To him, money was like the toy bank notes in Monopoly: he wanted it, not for what it could buy, but ...
KEN FOLLET By the end of the year when we needed points and were not scoring, we went in to Tai and she was dom...
ANDY MORRIS We might have to do some of that a little more this year. We didn't really hit and run last year, ev...
DAVE FARR Last year, he was pretty much a role player, but this year his role certainly changed. Offensively, ...
DAVE MACDONALD I had a quarterback that had a year off. He needed those snaps, ... I wanted to get as many viable s...
BRIAN BILLICK I think it helped, ... It was hot out there and we needed everyone to get it done.
GREG ELLIS We knew we wanted to be downtown. We felt like we needed to go with home accessories. We wanted to c...
LESLEIGH DRYE I knew at that point, I was in desperate trouble, and I knew I was sick and needed help. And I still...
MELANIE MORGAN Last year was hard, because we had just finished playing another hard game the night before. We real...
BRANDY WILLIAMS This year seems to be more business as usual for online retailers. Last year people went online beca...
LISA STRAND He wrestled with it the rest of the year, but there was a point where he wanted to quit. I was talki...
CHAD POWELL We wanted to come down here and do better than we did last year. This was not the kind of game that ...
AL NORTHINGTON He's always been a good wrestler, but I think he matured a lot more as a wrestler this year. A lot o...
KYLE GRAICHEN Our game plan was to put a lot of pressure on them. We needed to show them the type of defense that ...
LINDA KILPATRICK I am happy to have won it, knowing that it was a tough year. Last year, I knew all but one (word). T...
JONATHAN HORTON Our team needed this. We needed a break-out game, so it was good therapy for us. It helped restore s...
DOYLE GEDDES Sometimes, I even think we could take it a little more serious, but this is working. I think we're m...
BRIANNA GERRIOR That was huge for us because to that point right there I wasn't sure what kind of kids I had this ye...
MARCELO ENRIQUEZ It was just one more push that I needed to go through. Even though we have been struggling a little ...
BEN WISSEL
His purpose was to get done what needed to be done, and what needed to be done was simple, if not ea... LARRY MCMURTRY That was definitely a crazy game. I think it was just about last year, we didn't want to feel that w...
ERIC ELLIS This was a big step for us. I think about where we were last year, we didn't even make the WIAC tour...
JOE WERNER This was something we said early on we could do. I was proud of the way our kids played tonight. We ...
JAY WELK It was a team effort, and we got the win we needed at home. We knew they wanted to get one of two he...
JOSH HARDING Obviously, we were 4-12 for a reason last year. I think Jeff did what he thought needed to be done. ...
JEFF FAINE We've come together the last couple of week because we needed to. We knew we couldn't mess around an...
HEATHER BROWN Everyone knew I was anti-marriage. I'd spent my life saying it was something I neither wanted no...
ORLA BRADY In the dugout we were acting like was a 0-0 ball game and we knew we needed more runs.
ELIZABETH KAISER I was all done. I was so aggravated by what we saw last year, I said that's it, we're not going back...
CHRIS BABY I worked hard at my four-year M.A., but got a 2.1. That was a big disappointment, as I wanted to wri...
SAUL DAVID I'm a lifetime resident of this area. I just knew it was badly needed.
DAVE SMITH
