Mike Rathgeber
Mike Rathgeber
gratifying incredibly proud
I am incredibly proud of this team. This is one of the most gratifying years I've had. Not one of the most successful, but one of the most gratifying.
colorado state tallest team
They're the tallest team in the state of Colorado in 4A.
february heel rolls time
It's been our Achilles' heel all year. We desperately need to get that going by the time February rolls around.
boils season thursday winner
I'd say the winner of Thursday night's going to go (to the playoffs), and the loser's not. I'd say the season boils down to Thursday night.
beat clearly decided game points saw took watched
That clearly took us out of our game plan. We watched the Steamboat(-Battle Mountain) game (Saturday). We saw that those two had seven-eighths (sic) of their points and we decided that someone else was going to have to beat us, and to their credit, they did.
beat golden hit rest shaky tonight worry
Lindsay's dives were shaky at points, but he hit enough of them to beat the Golden kids. That's what we told him to do tonight - don't worry about points, just beat the rest of the field.
defending game percent plan played raining shoot
We played them to shoot 27 percent by completely defending the paint. Once they started raining 3's, it put our game plan right in the garbage.
number since twice
We did considerably more than I thought we would. Especially since they had more than twice the number of swimmers that we had.