Scott Walkinshaw Quotations

We want to thank the officials organization. We get a really good group of core officials to help with the meet. It would be impossible to host the meet without the support that we have from the community.

She's quite an athlete. The discus is a good event for her. I am confident she will throw quite a bit better.

On the men's side, where we have bodies we are competing well.

I was real pleased with the effort of our team. The weather affects every one's attitude in a lot of ways. We were just fortunate to get good weather like that. It was just tremendous for track.

I thought we competed really well. Performances indicate that we are coming along.

Our girls maintained an even pace and ended up running them down and we ended up with three of the Top 4 places. The (Chadron) girl that took the early lead ended up fifth - she went out way too fast.

Our 4 x 400 ran really tough. We probably still don't have the four on the team we will have later (in the season) when we are healthy, but it was a good time that we ran (Saturday).

We haven't run that fast in a long while. We had a freshman first (Harms) and last (Jacobs).

We put a lot of emphasis on the conference meet. To me it's the most important meet.

We are training hard right now. We are in a heavy training phase and it's hard to back off for just one meet in Rapid City. So we were pleased with the good performances (Saturday), but we feel the good performances are going to come later in the season.

We want to continue the success we had in indoor. We are definitely ready to be outdoors and anxious to get on the new track.

We were really pleased with how well we competed and very pleased with some of the outstanding marks that we had throughout the meet. I thought we improved quite a bit from the meet in Vermillion - USD.

We love going down there - it's phenomenal. It's a track for track sake.

The Top 10 lists have been very motivational because it adds a historical perspective to what's gone on.

They all did a nice job in the steeplechase. It was a new event for them. Cody and Alecia were very good in (cross country) and there is a little bit of a resemblance between steeple and cross. It gives them something to work on. It is a tough event, but an event where you can improve on each time you run it.

The weather was excellent. We've had three meets in row with ideal weather. It's good to get into another part of the country and compete; it was a really good day.

Amber had her best mark in discus, and her mark in the shot was a personal best and No. 2 all-time at Black Hills State.

There was some real excitement at the meet. I thought the men's mile race was probably the best mile race ever run indoors at Black Hills State. The crowd was really into it.

It was really good that the team didn't overlook Chadron. I was a little worried about our team not competing hard at Chadron but that wasn't the case. We feel we have been blessed with some pretty talented kids.

It really is good. It was so lopsided with them in the conference. It's tough going into the conference meet knowing that you're going to get beat.

It's going to be a classic conference championship. Jamestown is going to be the team to beat, but we're really going after it. We're three deep in every event on the women's side.

It was nice to compete close to home because we have some kids on the team from Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska - and we had a lot of parents there.

It was a great personal improvement for David. He is really vaulting well right now.

The mile and the 800 are a reflection of the cross country season. Obviously we are going to have some good distance runners right now.

Alecia keeps improving in the steeplechase and is becoming more efficient with the barriers and the water obstacles.