These girls just love being part of a winning program. I get a lot of girls who can't play other sports and they excel in this one. It's just a great group.

It's definitely some good momentum. We won by 14 points, but two of my girls scratched out … and they were possibly top three on the conference. It was a lot of drama with that meet Wednesday.

It is an individual sport. But I (preached) the team sport because these girls were like my little sisters. They were like a family.

The girls know to play hard. As long as they are having fun, everybody gets to enjoy winning.

We'd love to be State Champions, but we would have wanted it by winning the game. If it wasn't Hales it might have been Seneca or it might have been somebody else. You don't know who else would have been in that game and maybe we wouldn't have beaten them either.

We've got a two-game win streak now. The girls are starting to play with passion and desire.