What more could you want? We've got the defending state champs at our house. Everybody's hyped them up this year, but it's at our place. This gives us a chance to show everybody that we're for real.

They definitely got us in the first half. We finally settled down in the second half.

We've been talking about it and putting up little things every day of the week. That's helped us to get motivated, because after we had that tough stretch, we'd all talk, tell stories about last year and remember how much we want to get back there again.

It's very much changed since it was the Custer Hotel.

One of the first exercises we did in acting class my freshman year was to stand in two rows, two lines facing each other as a class, and just make sounds and move in some completely nonsensical way out into the center of the room. Sort of make an idiot out of yourself, essentially, but to be okay with that.

We actually prefer these tags that go around your neck. At first we all had wristbands but they weren't so good because you had to take them off to do the washing up.