Dave O'Neal Quotations

Nicole will be busy ? she'll see four events. As good an athlete as Nicole is, Mahon is having a phenomenal season. But Nicole is right there.

That's what we're going to focus on next year, is promoting the sport in the middle-school level. That's all fine, but that's a year off. We're just trying to keep the program together until we can get something going. We'd like to be competitive. We don't want to be just throwing bodies out there.

That's given me enough girls to score on a given day, but it gives me no leeway. I have the bodies, but I don't have the talent yet.

This group is very talented, but with the spring there are more events and you can only spread the kids so far, so depth will be an issue. We have a handful of young girls who are working very hard, but it's not the talent level we've gotten in the past. We don't know if they will be impact people or not. They are probably a year away.

The two teams are in different places. The girls are senior heavy and talented. The boys have raw talent. We don't know which way it'll go, but we'll be deeper with the boys.