Tanya Chaplin Quotations

We're going to focus on our own performance and not worry about what Stanford or Alabama is doing.

She's graceful and dynamic, and has beautiful lines. The way she presents herself on the events is just incredible. She's a beautiful gymnast, but she's also a beautiful person, inside and out.

She's living the life that's kind of honoring her mother right now and doing that in every area that she can, from academics to gymnastics to her relationships. It's also helped this team understand and value their relationships that they have between each other and their own family members.

She did phenomenal for anyone, but for a freshman to come in and ... win those is a great accomplishment.

She is unique in that she can bring both (performance and tumbling skills). How high she gets on her tumbling passes, you don't really see that often throughout the country, either. She can skyrocket into the air, so that brings another element to it.

Megan did a phenomenal job on vault and floor and starting us off on floor. I think we were only a couple tenths ahead of Stanford going into floor. Stanford's a tough team and you really have to fight through 'til the end, so she really started us off strong on floor and they kept it going on through.

Her performance tonight was spectacular. She just keeps getting better and better.

I think that they went out there a little tight, but that's actually not surprising to me. This was their first national championship. I was really proud that they stayed on their feet. They didn't have to count a fall and they fought hard for things.

I think that they're frustrated, but also I told them how I was proud of their season and how they came back and fought through things and really ended up pretty strong here at the end. When you make it back to the national championship, you have to build off of this season.

I think that when they went out they were a little tight because they were trying too hard. But that's actually not surprising to me in that every single one of them, this is the first national championships.

We'll run through a lot of things that we're going to do at nationals and find out if there are any glitches in the system. That way we can fine-tune. We'll have a month before the national championship and we can get everything in place before we actually run the NCAA Championship.

With a young group, I think you really stay on top of things and you don't assume they know anything. So we've gone back to that again this year, really spelling out everything for them, making sure they know all the ropes, ins and outs of what's expected of them in practice and outside of practice.

We've held her back a little bit in practice so her body won't tear down, but she's getting more and more confident. She definitely knows how to go out there and compete.

Those two have really put their hearts and souls into the program. We knew at the time we were recruiting them that we were going to host this national championship. It's an exciting time for all of us, and especially those two.

Those two are doing an an awesome job, especially being freshmen, and the pressures that can come with that. They're both phenomenal gymnasts, and it's kind of like a friendly competition.

They're very powerful. That's part of their personalities, too. They really go after things. They're aggressive competitors and athletes all the way around.

They're very aggressive athletes and very competitive. They want to go out there and they want to win and they fight for everything and I think that has brought a tremendous amount to our team because when you watch the younger ones fighting that hard for everything, I think it kind of moves on up the chain.

It's a good thing our team is continuing to build right now. They're getting stronger and they're competitive with those top teams right now. So we just have to focus in on what we can do and worry about our performances and not really look at the fact that Alabama or Stanford is there.

It means a lot as an athlete to have that opportunity to compete on your home floor at the end of the season. That's been something that we've really been working hard at getting our team ready and healthy enough for the end of the season so that we're able to finish up here in Corvallis.

It's like springs in her legs. It's pretty amazing how high she can get up.

That's quite a few routines for a freshman class.

Each team changes but this definitely has been a big change for us. I think there's pros and cons about having a young team and I think right now they're doing an awesome job.

That is so well deserved. She has competed in every meet in all-around and every routine has counted for us. That is phenomenal in itself. To have every routine you put up counting toward the team score, I don't remember someone actually doing that.

It was nice for them to tie because they push each other every day. It was nice to see them rewarded at the top.

They learned a tremendous amount from this experience and we're going to take in everything over the next couple of days so that we can build off of this going into next season.

I know this has been a tremendously challenging year for Chris. It's hard when any athlete has to go through something like this, but to have a disease where you can't communicate with your parent anymore is tremendously hard. You can communicate in other ways.

I'm really pleased with them. They continue to impress me. There are so many positives that came out of this meet and they are right on track.

For them to come together and be able to be one of the top 12 teams in the country at the end of the season says a lot for such a young group and I'm really excited for the future. They're determined to take this experience and build off of it.

The competition is going to be fierce. I guess the positive thing for us is we don't have to fly across the country.