Rene Cook Quotations

We're really excited to have the meet here in Barnhill. They are really motivated, and it will be a very good opportunity for us.

We're real excited to have the home court advantage, and that is something that will really be in our favor. We hope to have a really good crowd out there, calling the Hogs, getting it going, and seeing what this team can do.

Wow, that was pretty exciting. To actually make the national championships is absolutely amazing.

I was very impressed with Cassie today. She hit on all four events and it's nice to see her do that.

We're really happy to have survived our first meet. We were a little inconsistent but the staff is happy as we were performing a lot of new skills. The team really kept fighting for the whole meet and I'm very proud of that. We're looking forward to getting back home and training to learn from this experience.

While we had to count an error, I thought the team fought really hard and stayed the course tonight. Any time you compete, you want to win but tonight we had other goals as well and I think we helped ourselves a lot in meeting those.

We had a couple of falls on beam but both were on new skills that we've added to routines. We're disappointed with that but it is understandable. I think we can get by that and be better in the future.

There will be some of the best gymnastics you could possibly ask for.

Some people say they could never work with their spouses. We have a passionate life that we love sharing. But a lot of people would be surprised by how much we don?t interact at work.

Auburn is a good team. But most of the teams ranked from 11 to 20 are pretty similar. It?s just a matter of who hits and Auburn has been hitting. We?re looking forward to the challenge of competing against them and seeing where we stack up.

There's an air of maturity this year. Everyone is very supportive of each other and we have been doing a lot of the little things right so far.

It was a great building block for next season. The girls are already super motivated to get back in the gym and that's a good sign. They're excited with what we accomplished but eager to do even more next year.

The vault went very well. It pulled us through. It's nice to see and we had half of the lineup doing new vaults. It was a great way to end the competition.

They have really, since the Alabama meet, turned the corner, and they have really been intense and focused during workouts and carried that to the competition floor.

I'd say about half of our team has seen this setup before. It's a little different look and, yes, we do have some experience with it but it's a different environment. We've competed well in the last five meets though and we're going in well prepared and on a high note. I can't wait to see what we can do.

The girls really enjoyed the great student section in Georgia. I know it made them eager to get in front of their home crowd.