Steve Duwel Quotations

This was as close as we have been all year to a full squad, especially on the girls side.

She trailed the whole race until the final 10 meters and then reeled everyone in. It's a great tribute to Bethany as one of our senior team leaders.

She showed some great endurance and leadership to win two difficult events back to back.

She did very well. She earned the victory. Five dives into the competition she was a solid second.

Hannah and Lauren will add some much needed support for our girls team as we look towards defending our state title.

It is somewhat astounding when I think that in over four years, with various combinations of girls, we have taken first place every time in the 200 medley relay. That is a very impressive streak.

We're certainly not as strong as we have been the last few years on our girls team. But we're approaching this meet that we have just as good of a chance to win as anybody, and that goes the same for our boys.

This was a dog fight. We thought there was a chance we could come away with nothing.

The boys seem to be peaking at the right time. They are coming on very strong as we wind down the season.

The boys competition I think is a lot more of a level playing field. And I think the fact that we won last year was just a tribute to the boys stepping up and racing. I don't think anybody thought we were going to win that.

This is the first year we've gone into the year with a significant loss as far as our top end. Last year I think they probably rode in with confidence. This year they're kind of looking over their shoulders a little bit.

This is the first time the boys have won a meet by more than 100 points. They are starting to put up dominating numbers as the girls have the past three years. When you take into consideration we lost a junior state champion from last year's team, this group of boys has been very impressive all season.

It was going to be a shootout for both teams and we knew it. Everything we did was great and somewhat unexpected. All the credit goes to the kids.

It was the most exciting diving competition I can remember. She's been working on more risky dives and she really came through. She's just made so many improvements since she gave up gymnastics and we were all glad to see it pay off.

I tend not to put swimmers in three relays as we usually have a lot of flexibility being able to move the girls around. However, there were a lot of points to be gained in relays so Nicole really helped the team in sacrificing an individual event.

Honestly, it's going to come down to Michael and Chris. Michael has got some tough, tough races. I think he'll win at least one and he could possibly win two. But he's a freshman and this is new to him so there's always that unknown.