Junior Quotations

We're still really young on the boys' side, ... We just have to be patient and we'll eventually get better. We're running a lot of first-year juniors and sophomores and we've got to get the experience and understand how to run those races.

We're still in a growing up stage. Last year we relied on a lot of freshmen and sophomores and we lost a lot of close games. One reason the sophomores from last year who are now juniors are playing better is because they're more experienced. A.J. (Johnson) and Al Thornton are giving us good leadership, and we're getting leadership from our three seniors. Todd Galloway has been in the program for four years, so has Andrew Wilson. We have some guys who are maturing a little bit and it's taking some pressure off of our new players.

We're seeing it statewide. Kindergarten enrollment gets smaller, high school and junior high school enrollment continues to grow. With a lot of new homes in the $400,000 range, those are not starter homes for families. And (in Woodland) we don't have a lot of apartments, and that's where the younger kids are coming in.

We're satisfied. We played two of our better ball games out here. We're young, with all juniors and a ninth-grader playing most of the time. Our two big girls probably didn't play more than 30 minutes all night, so we're happy.

We're looking for Shawn and Josh both to have big years for us. I think they both have the potential to become leaders for us, along with juniors Lincoln Wagner and Greg Tingle.

We believe that it's important to recognize the extraordinary achievements of these students at the most formative moments of their careers, ... As juniors and seniors, they have started to determine the role they would like to play in shaping the future. The scholars we honor at this year's ceremony are on the path to becoming tomorrow's leaders.

We've become pretty good friends through playing with the Americans (at the world junior hockey championship). We'll chirp each other now and then and we'll give each other a slash when we have to, but it'll be good to go up against him. It's a good test for our team.

We've basically been playing a similar offense, we run the same offense. The purpose of the junior varsity is to work together. It's not about wins, it's about getting better.

We've always had kids from all over come here. This program has been a magnet for good wrestlers from around the state, but our link with the Navy Juniors program has been pretty good for us the past few years.

When I was nine, we moved to Stanford University in San Francisco so that my father could do a Ph.D. I went to Terman Junior High in Palo Alto. It was terrible, because my hormones were all over the place, and I became an ugly adolescent full of rage and loathing.