She broke Caroline Pickering's national record last week and Pickering was a semi-finalist at the Manchester Games.

Every venue should be ready before the Games, leaving us enough time -- even if it's little time -- to do the testing, to put the [Olympic] overlays [on]. The only worry we have is that the pace will not be kept because of unexpected difficulties.

Preparing for the Games requires a team effort: the group named today as Coordination Commission can be expected to make a significant contribution to that effort, on behalf of the IOC.

This year has been a struggle for us, the way we are winning games. Nothing comes easy. We may have had one more loss at this point last year when we won the state title, but it was completely different.

That's as tough an opening four games as you can have. If we can come through that with a couple of wins, I like our chances to have an excellent year.

(My shot) has been coming around the last couple games. So you just feel a lot more aggressive when you're in a comfortable zone. Obviously, the games are really important right now, not just to stay in the playoffs but trying to move up.