I think we definitely had to work a lot harder this year, with all that happened at the beginning of the year. But all along, we just knew we had so much. We just tried to bring out all the good qualities of the kids we had, and they all started to click.
It can be a challenge at the beginning, but if the kids are focused, I think you can tune a lot of that out.
I think they had more kids show up than we did. They wanted it more than we did. They weren't missing. They were on fire. It was their night.