So far, so good. Practice has been going well. Coach Johnson tells us we are improving every day, so that is always good to hear.

Every day they asked us about practice, flights, hotels, off-the-court stuff, everything. I said, 'Everybody on the team is cool, everybody's down to earth. Shaq, I told them he was funny. Everybody already heard that. I told them practice was hard, the flights were cool, hotels were top-of-the-line.

After one day of practice, it's a little hard to see who might develop. The first meet will give us a better idea.

It's a very exciting year for us. The first day of practice, I had 30 girls show up.

Washington is like us and they race every day (at practice), so I wouldn't expect them to come out flat.

Turnovers were the emphasis all week in practice. Before today, we only had one turnover this season. We were concentrating on stripping the ball, because turnovers lead to points.