Right now, we need to tear off the rear-view mirror and look forward to our final two events. The nice thing about Nordic is there's a lot of emotion in the race. We can still dig deep and rise above tonight's events to put together a strong performance for the win.

Kurt Smitz

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Both the men and women had some great races today. With all the men finishing in the top ten along with solid finishes from the women's team, we have put ourselves in a great position at this point. It's halftime right now and we are right where we want to be.

Florence ran a great race, she's such a team player. After Jenny ( Tank ) had that fall in the first run, we needed a solid race from her and she almost won a national championship.

Right after we saw (last week's) accident, we were both transported back to the events of two years ago. Then Bruce said to me 'we were spared for a reason.' We both know what it is.

— Debra Jones

It is tough right now with the field events. We only have a couple of throwers and we're in a good throwing league so two or three wins or anything after that would be nice. I think this team can do it.

— Greg Zopatti

When the field events do well, the track (runners) come right behind them.

— LeRoy Millsap