Rick Rachel Quotations

I was real pleased. The boys were tired because we worked them hard Monday. But we tried to put them together for this meet to see what would happen. And they really competed well.

He's following right in his brother's footsteps. There is a similarity in the fact that their work ethics are the same and any time you get somebody with a little talent that wants to work as hard as they do, then they're going to be successful. The fact that his time has continued to drop every meet shows the commitment that he's got. He's working hard in practice.

We have a good mix of young people and seasoned veterans. You can?t put an amount of importance on the experience and leadership they?re going to give. (The seniors) go out and set the bar high every day in practice and if you do that in practice, it?s going to happen in the meets.

We were really tickled with our young guys coming in there and competing the way that they did. We didn't run a bunch that won indoor state, so that's good when they compete like that.

Everything's new. It ought to be a spectacular situation for us.

They get to run four events (at the conference meet). We want to use him at the fullest capacity.

They're not through. They're supposed to put another layer on today or tonight and stripe it the next two days. We're supposed to have (the meet). (Athletics director) Lauren (West) is telling us we're going to have it. It could change at the last moment but she says it is.

It's a difficult double. We'll just see how it all plays out.

It's going to be a big meet. About 600 kids.

All in all, it was a good night for us and we got some good performances.