Quotations

«Quite a few of our athletes will be off this weekend, getting rested and ready for next weekend's Big Ten meets. This meet should be pretty low key, but it will offer us a chance for final preparations and tune ups for Big Tens. Those athletes who need to rest will rest and those who need fine tuning will have an opportunity to do that as well.»

«I think all our preparation work (for Big Ten's) is complete, and tonight's performances were a good indication of that. We should feel confident heading into Big Ten's. We keep getting better every week and I'm happy to see both my teams coming together.»

«We've lost a lot of throwing points from last year's team, but our vaulting will help replace some of those scores.»

«I give notice that Joe Public will be back on the scene in a big way. You won't have a two-team league no more.»

«Our goal on the men's side is to be where we were a year ago, if not better, and for Rickey and John to improve their qualifying marks, and for others, like David Rae , to make it onto the national lists. Rickey is going in trying to defend his title. If he is able to do that, it will get us rolling. We also hope to score well in the pole vault because we have four solid athletes in it. David Rae is capable of scoring us some major points in the 3,000. We are a young team, but we have a lot of people capable of doing great things. Hopefully, Big Tens will be an awakening for them to compete at a high level.»

«I look for our freshmen to contribute a lot in the relays. We also need them to get into the finals in their respective events, to knock other people out of position to score. Some of the younger athletes, like Lauren Scott , Steven Bach and Terrell Thompson , have the ability to do that. At the Big Ten meet, I tell all of our athletes to focus on beating bodies, not on jumping a certain distance or running a certain time. If you focus on beating people, those things will come.»

«Anytime you have to triple in events like she does you really have to be on top of your game. It's not like she will be able to go into any of the events fresh.»

«Sometimes when you get two thoroughbreds like that, they have a tendency to race each other and forget about everyone else. And then someone sneaks in and wins.»

«Obviously, when you can defend your title it shows how good of an athlete you are. And to do it by beating the No. 1 seed is impressive.»

«I was looking for seventh but the main objective was to get off of the bottom. And we did that and now we have several kids competing at the national level.»