Tracy Smith
Tracy Smith
Tracy K. Smithis an American poet and educator. She has published three collections of poetry. She won the Pulitzer Prize for a 2011 collection, Life on Mars. About this collection, Joel Brouwer wrote in 2011: "Smith shows herself to be a poet of extraordinary range and ambition. ... As all the best poetry does, Life on Mars first sends us out into the magnificent chill of the imagination and then returns us to ourselves, both changed and consoled."...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth16 April 1972
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The students really enjoyed the response from the adult day care center. I think that's when it really hit us that these little things really are affecting other people.
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Our defense didn't give up enough points to beat us. If you can hold a team to 35 points, you've done a great job defensively.
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I've been telling our guys all along that our season starts this weekend when Big Ten play begins.
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Of course we want to beat in-state teams, but we try to de-emphasize the opponent, because the real opponent is us. I do caution the guys that the other in-state schools will be gunning for us because of who we are.
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It was a well-played ball game; it came down to them getting a key hit. We didn't get the key hit and didn't make the plays. I'm proud of Clint, he kept us in there and gave us a chance to win.
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The schedule is something we wanted to address. We think with the addition of Miami (Fla.) and some other changes we made to our mid-week opponents, we have taken steps in the right direction. We will always try and play the best teams in the nation during the non-conference portion of our schedule to better prepare us for Big Ten play and beyond.
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We need to have better situational hitting. We could have lost all three of those games, so we need to use these mid-week games as prep and confidence builders for this weekend.
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We know that you're adopting a baby girl from India.
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We want to go down to Charlotte and win, make no mistake about it. We expect to win three games, but at the same time we want to learn about ourselves as a team. But ultimately, it's all about winning.
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We have to steal bases to be successful. We're not a big three-run homer team, and speed shows up to the ballpark everyday.
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We are not willing to go quietly. We are willing to break the silence.
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To me there is no solace in one-run losses. Good teams win close games, and we have go to start winning them.
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We're going to primarily rest our starting pitchers and give some guys a chance who haven't had a lot of opportunities to stake a claim for some more innings out of the bullpen. I anticipate Butler will be taking the same approach.
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We're battling, we're just not getting over the hump. We just need to get that big hit or make that big play.