David Cope Quotations

We read a quote from the president about the Chicago White Sox. He said to them, 'Hey, you went out on opening day, and you never surrendered the lead for the rest of the season.' It's a nice thing to shoot for.

We have a responsibility to show respect for the game, for the opponents, the officials and ourselves by approaching all the games in the same manner. As so many coaching books talk about, you can't just turn on and off the concentration switch. You're either always focused and always ready to play at a high level or you're not.

Looming on the horizon is Rifle. I think it's unlikely that any of the boys are going to get Andy Banner's (single-season scoring) record this year. But, they have a chance to do something that last year's team didn't do by beating Rifle on the road.

Six goals this week, you'd think we'd have lost a game,

Right now, it's an anomaly. It will be reviewed and scrutinized over the first few years to see how well it works for both the team and sponsor, and see if we might have a new model and if it works.

Kelsey, that's her first hat trick of her career, which is an accomplishment at any level. That's great. I didn't realize that until she said it. She's got a bunch of goals for her career, and is going to get a bunch more.

I think it's a huge win on a number of fronts,

I thought we gave them a touch too much respect early in the first half and sat back. I was really proud of how the girls didn't give up in the second half.

I thought they showed a lot of class. Julia's chasing the record (of 24 goals in a year previously held by Christina Aiello), and gives up the ball to Erika Ghent on the first goal. In the situation she was in, she could have just easily turned and scored, but she gave up a decent scoring opportunity to give Erika a great one.

I think there's a lot of motivation on the part of our boys. They know the importance of it seeding-wise and it's a chance to go down on a nice field and play a quality opponent. The boys are really excited for it.

Mary was great. It was nice for the girls to get their record against such a great goalkeeper.

I thought Moffat did really well. You've got to remember it was 1-1 after 30 minutes. You could see fitness starting to tell in the second half. Our girls are very fit and pretty athletic.

I thought Julia was coming from different positions on the field and being really effective.

You just never know. The records, throw them out the window. It's Eagle Valley, the local rivalry. A lot of the girls are club teammates. It'll be exciting. It'll be fun.

We thought it was not too bad. Steamboat allowed three goals to Delta. We gave up two. Steamboat let in one against Glenwood. We shut them out.

We were talking about doing the Deion Sanders thing, trying to get a police escort to bring them back from the track meet.

Two hat tricks in one game at any level is a remarkable accomplishment. I don't remember any games when we've had two hat tricks.

Both teams had to make critical plays defensively. Obviously, Kelly Labor's a great player, but they have other great players - Ann Barney and some of those kids. We didn't want to end up in a 1-on-1 situation. We always had players sliding across.

Both were great goals. I don't think our keeper was at fault on either one.

Two 4-2s in a row. That's the score of the week. There was bound to be a slight lull from the Glenwood game. It's hard to generate that kind of energy and emotion twice in 48 hours. Having said that, I think they dealt well with the field and the other team and the crowd and showed some composure.

We had the (substitute) standing there ready. Part of being a striker is being ruthless.

We created a lot of chances to score some goals, but we may have to be more efficient against Steamboat. It could be that we create five chances and get one goal.

It was three long trips, and we came out of it with 20 goals for and three against. You can't argue with that. It was a great team bonding experience. I think we're a better team coming out of it than we were going into it.

It was a little disconcerting because that happened with our starting group in. But she's a good player, very explosive.

The thing about Kelsey and Jules is that they have so much speed that we tell them they don't need a head start. They can run across laterally, and when it's hit, go in.

Our defenders are really covering for each other well. Our defenders are also getting involved in the attack. You saw Sydney get assists and Morgan (Wallace) got involved in the attack.

That's something we talked about. Can our final pass be a quality one that creates another pass for somebody else.

It was great to see (us) score goal right after they did. That's a characteristic of our guys. The first five minutes after a goal, they kind of bear down and play pretty well.

Their game against Aspen was snowed out. We've had a lot of training sessions, so that's been an advantage. I certainly expect it to be closer against Eagle the second time.

A hat trick at any level is a tremendous accomplishment.

The last time it happened it was the same thing. The sub was ready, and we couldn't get him out of the game in time.