Jason Hafner Quotations

Both on the guys and girls side, tomorrow is where it counts. Those swimmers got to go a little bit easier today. The ones where we needed to have them go and swim fast, those kids swam fast.

It depends on how the day goes and what those coaches and teams are focusing on. Our guys that are in there definitely have a shot to move up.

It's hard to get them back up and swim in the finals. To be within a second or so in the relay, it's a pretty good swim for them.

When you get to state, half of the kids will swim slower than they did at districts, half are going to go faster. It doesn't mean a whole lot what you see on paper.

Sometimes when you get out in the open water, it's a little easier to go. You get six or seven people all going the same speed, it's a lot tougher to race.

We made the qualifying time in the medley relay. We're seeded 18th. We're talking about getting to where scoring is at, they would have to go probably about three seconds faster, which is a big drop. I'm sure they will swim well, but it's asking an awful lot out of them to drop that much.

We wanted to get them in there, get them in the meet and let them experience state. It's a lot different type of meet. There's a lot of stress and pressure on them. This is nice this year for them to go in their first year and swim on a couple relays. It looks like they got a good shot at swimming on Saturday. The more races you get at that level, the better.

I was talking to them and telling them how fun it has been to watch them progress. As the season has gone along and they have gotten more experience, they've started racing better and better as the season went on. Then at districts, they did well yesterday and came back and swam even faster today. That's all you can ask for.

It's a good swim. She had a tough heat. We were hoping she would have someone to race with. The three girls that went out in the pack were so far ahead in her heat. It was hard for her. She was swimming on her own.

We won some close ones. They won some close ones. We went back and forth on that. The guys had a little letdown in the last relay.