Mark Cooke Quotations

There are some good teams in our pool. We've split with Gardner-Webb already this year. We haven't seen the other two.

We're just looking forward to it. It's a big event for us each year. Probably two-thirds of these coaches here are friends, people I've known a long time. It's like a reunion for me every year. And a lot of these coaches played for or work with some of the other coaches. So it's just a good time where everybody gets back together again.

We?re getting more consistent and the scores are reflecting that. The meet had a really good flow.

We're happy to be in the night session. There is much more of a crowd and the excitement seems to be better. This is just such a great experience and we are really looking forward to it.

We've been very competitive, especially at home. So far I'm pleased with our effort at home, but I'd like to see us play on the road better.

I think we're finally starting to get the rust off against live pitching. I thought we did a better job at taking advantage of our chances against Georgia than we did in the earlier game. Marshall and Georgia are very good ball clubs and I thought we battled hard with both.

I think we did really well tonight, we had to move some kids around and put them in some different events. We got some kids taking on a couple more events than they usually do. We're using this for conditioning and they responded really well.

Julie pitched a great game today and just missed a no-hitter. Julie is one of our young players that is stepping up for us.

We?re definitely gaining momentum as we go through the season. We?re actually getting better and we?re a lot more focused and consistent.

We get a big repeat performance. Teams come each year. That really makes it easy for us. I like having the same ones that way everybody knows where everything is and how to do it all.

We did well. I had a lot of kids pull out because we have a meet tomorrow. We took kids out, so I knew we would probably lose the meet. We're just getting ready for tomorrow, so we can run well.

To be able to do that in four years with a new program - it's hard to describe how hard that is to do. It'd be like making the Final Four in basketball with only five years of existence. It's that hard. But it's always a possibility in sports. Anything is possible.

We wanted the Regional in hopes of putting ourselves in the best position possible to go to the national meet. We have a hard competition ahead of us, but we're poised to go out there and do the best job possible and see what happens.

This will be both an interesting and exciting meet. It will have a different feel and flow.

The scores will always fluctuate depending on the judging panels and we had some balance issues tonight. But we fought through them and that was great to see. We've been training like we are competing and that's great. We focused tonight on one event at a time, one routine at a time.

Sounds like everybody has the radio on, I catch bits and pieces from building to building.

That side will be easier to build. We're not in the swamp over there.

According to some polls, we have the sixth-hardest schedule in the country. Our philosophy is to be the best, you have to compete against the best.

It's been a great last 10 days for our team. We've played 17 in the last 14 days. But I'm pretty happy with where we are now. I think this is the team I thought we had.

David threw real well for four-plus innings, but then he got a nose bleed and he was getting up in his pitches a little bit so we pulled him out.

Not going to talk about 'em. That's all I want to say.

They let us off with one there. We were lucky. Our bats came around for us in the late innings and that helped us out a little.

I knew she had the potential to help our team. I looked at how she developed her game, and her leadership skills grew from last season to this season.

If you do all the right things, whatever happens, happens.