We don't look at her like she's a pro athlete coming in. It's more of a Connie Moore's coming in, we'll see her, and when the track meet's over we'll go hang out with her type of thing.

I wanted to be a pro athlete. I knew that.

Mom was adamantly pro-choice. She had a bumper sticker on the car that read If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child? But in her case the choice was to keep me.

I think Lena Bettis will step up. I think our team has a good chance of winning Big Tens.

I'm pushing to be back [for outdoor], but if I'm not 100 percent then I'm not going to because I'd rather be 100 percent and do well than be 95 percent and just be mediocre.

We're just pumped up to be running against them and see where we stand against their caliber. If we can hang with them now, then when nationals time comes around, hopefully we'll place somewhere in there.