There were a lot of great races and some pretty good competition for us in some events. I felt it was a real nice meet for us and a nice confidence-builder as we are approaching the halfway mark of the season.

We got three really good teams coming at us. They'll be pretty tough competition.

We do feel that the competition is closing in on us but we had a pretty dominant run in the spring and I think there's room for improvement. We're going to start with the same set-up we used in June and then try some new things to see what works best. We need to get the momentum back that we had in the first half of the year and this could be the race to do it.

There's a lot of competition between us. Being siblings and being on the same team, we get pretty competitive, especially since we swim the same stroke [butterfly]. But we do push each other to do better and work hard at practice.

It's been a couple weeks since they ran with us and we're very happy with how they did. It made a world of difference having that first meet under their belt a couple weeks ago. They ran a lot more relaxed than they did the first time they ran.

His times were a little off, but in his events there really isn't competition for him in our conference.