We put it all out on the floor and I really went after it. That was the second-place team in the country and we lost by seventy five-one hundredths of a point.

Before we came out on the floor for the second half, we huddled up and I told the team it wasn't going to end like this. We responded to the challenge.

Party's on the first floor, there's nobody on the second floor.

Nicole is one of those kids that's going to win many meets for us. She just wanted to do really good for the team [with Orlando out], and I think she got frustrated with herself. I just didn't want to see her take another fall on that routine.

The meet really looked worse than it was. We had to count a full point in falls, while [Stanford] had a perfect meet and beat us by four-tenths [of a point].

I was really pleased with how well we competed tonight. I think this will help us continue to move up in the rankings. This will give us even more confidence to get to where we want to go.