Famous Quotes & Sayings

This team is really young. We have good freshmen stepping up big time. They've been swimming for a very long time and know the drills.

We're going to be highly competitive. Most of the other teams in the league have a lot of upper classmen; we're heavy in freshmen and sophomores, but they're improving every time out.

Dick Bennett

You have to recognize that they've got a lot of young kids out there. They're playing freshmen and they lost great players. People don't realize the number of great players they lost. I think probably they're a good team, but they're not the same team as they were last year.

Mike Kerr

We lose so much after this year with seven seniors graduating. Having two freshmen starting to become leaders for our team really bodes well for not only next year, but two or three years down the road.

We start with them as freshmen and tell them they have to pass it. But in their minds, two or three years is a long way off.

Two years ago we started seven freshmen, and we don't have any freshmen starting this year.

Tommy Amaker

Because we had the nucleus of our team win that tournament two years ago -- the juniors and seniors right now were freshmen and sophomores -- I worry about that being more of a negative than a positive. These kids have recognized that they've already done that.

I don't think we've ever had a team where we've relied on freshmen like this season. They play with more maturity and poise than their age.

I don't think we're that young. We have strong leadership from seniors like Jen Gardner and Katie Dean, and some of the freshmen are contributing already. We have a nice mix of youth and veterans.

If the freshmen and sophomores don't know what to expect, they'll know after the first 15 minutes of the game.

If their freshmen test score is in the top 10, we give those 10 kids $1,000.

I was really proud of our freshmen tonight. They really stepped it up tonight and was a big part of this win.

She just woke up. We've been working hard on hitting and the young girls are taking control. That's nice to see from freshmen and sophomores.

I feel positive about this team. These kids won titles as freshmen (frosh championship), sophomores (JV) and juniors (NCL I) so they are used to hanging up a pennant.

By the end of the freshmen game, there were 2,500 here. Halfway through the JV game, they said there were 3,100. It was pretty electric.

He struggled with the speed of the greens. But he handled himself very well. There are not too many freshmen out here.

He's taken them under his wing and leading them and the freshmen understand him and respect him. Young kids are going to hit this stride and take them to the next level and we hope that's this weekend.

I think there will be one or two freshmen in the lineup each week.

Looking at their lineup and number of kids they had returning, I knew AG was going to be a good team this year. I think our kids did an outstanding job tonight. We graduated 10 seniors from last year and have some freshmen and sophomores in our lineup. I think they wrestled very well tonight.

That was different. I'm used to wrestling freshmen and eighth-graders. He was smarter. He was more experienced.

We had a lot of freshmen who stepped up and played well last season. They now have a year under their belts, so I think we'll improve this year.

We had a lot of freshmen last year and our team never really clicked. This year, we know each other better and we're communicating like a team.

You just have to play with the players you have. Getting Jason Leger back will help. But we have to get freshmen Myron Pryor and Ventrell Jenkins more involved in the line play, too.

Ron Zook

We played more freshmen out there. We'll suffer with some growing pains now. We'll be better for it down the road.

For one thing, we only have two players starting from last year's team. The rest are freshmen and juniors. That's lots of inexperience.

Our team is very consistent, and I think our freshmen will live up to how they've been billed.

Our freshmen will be stronger, tougher, better, our sophomores will become juniors. We'll have some guys who have been through the wars.

Our freshmen stepped up and made play after play. I'm really proud of this group and what they've already accomplished.

Our freshmen haven't played as well since we shook it up earlier. So I think we might go with some new players.

Gene Watson

Our two freshmen ran exceptionally well. Down the road, they could help us out on the varsity team.

The pattern we see is when students have a rough freshmen year, they come back for their sophomore year. But if they have the same pattern, they start to lose hope and start looking at other options; sometimes it?s night school, sometimes it?s a GED.

We have three freshmen kicking for us this year and all of them are going to do something.

We have three freshmen in their first race at 3 miles. They did well, considering.