Many of our athletes are taking finals during Dead Week. I think our greatest challenge will be balancing finals with trying to win a national championship.

It will be hard to get us to do that, it will be a challenge, but we know we need to do it.

We truly have a core of tremendous athletes in the three seniors. The challenge for me is to continually push those players, and push the players who have never played organized volleyball and get them to that level in a short amount of time.

I like a challenge. The big thing there is getting the athletes out for the sport. I've got a lot of homework to do.

I'm really excited, and our coaches are really excited about this weekend and what can happen. We want our athletes to be excited, too, and to really enjoy this experience.

The athletes are up for the challenge. They're focused and I think our confidence is riding high. With two weeks before conference I think they really want to put up a good showing. This will be a very good test for us to see where we are mentally. If we can go out and execute as well as we have this year I think we'll be happy with the results.