Vin Lananna Quotations

What a great, great performance. That's a big breakthrough for her, and I think there's more in the tank there.

She's good. ... She's more than good. She's just a composed, confident athlete. The sky's the limit for her.

I expect all of my runners to come out as leaders on both teams. They all have leadership traits, and I hope to pool those resources.

We dropped her down to the 400 once we saw the wind howling from the north to see if we could get a little speed work in. We were hesitating on that decision, because we were going to try to do something really special today (in the 800).

We are concentrating on one meet at a time. We have some tough races in the next five weeks, and we don't want to get too far ahead of ourselves. The enthusiasm on this team is outstanding, and if the coaches and athletes can continue that positive attitude for the rest of the season, I'm confident that we will achieve success as individuals and as a team.

Those are both pretty good teams. We want this to be a fun thing for the athletes. Most of them are seniors and they've always wanted to go to Penn, so we decided to let it happen.

Very impressive. I've never seen anybody open at 19 feet before, that takes a lot of guts. Tommy is an exciting athlete with tremendous potential. He and Dan Steele are a wonderful match.

Everybody knows that Tommy is a wonderful athlete. I think last year is behind him and he's excited about the new year. If he can look at the indoor season as a means to an end, I believe he can turn it into a great positive for the outdoor season.

The women's team has a solid pack through six runners, and we won't plan to rely on just one person to compete well. It will be a true team effort.

The women ran tough today and to come within a couple of points against a very good Washington team proves that they ran well. Individually, I was happy with everyone, and Katie Leary in particular showed well today.

A lot of the enthusiasm at U of O is built on its traditions. I hope to reconnect with that past enthusiasm. The wonderful men's track and field team generated a lot of enthusiasm last spring by winning the outdoor Pac-10 Championship. We hope the same energy will carry over into fall.

It's one thing to put the bar up there. It's another thing to clear it. It was very impressive.

I like to have full-time coaches being responsible for our athletes. Obviously, it was a good decision.

The meet was really a great success from a lot of spots. It was a good and entertaining event ... Scherer was excellent, impressive, very impressive.

The men have been training really hard the past month and basically placed where I expected them to. I'm glad we had a meet with this level of competition early so we could identify what we need to work on. Galen had a good opener and has had a hard training cycle. We flagged him to back off the last mile to be a little cautious since it's his first race.