Bob Starkell Quotations

We achieved some of our goals that we were looking forward to doing. Overall we made an improvement from last week, and now we can start working on cleaning things up and being really sharp.

We are taking this one week at a time. If we start getting ahead of ourselves, we get lost in practice and we can't concentrate on the things we need to make due for next weekend.

Cara Pomeroy led the way in her competitive nature and how she carries herself to compete really well.

Cara always has some of the strongest performances.

For us to fare well, especially on beam, it's great to have Julie on the event. Our next step is to try to get her on bars, and if we can get her on the floor she will feel a little more comfortable about being consistent.

Our best event of the night was vault. The athletes took full advantage of knowing it was an NCAA meet and they had to finish out strong and feel like they accomplished something.

The athletes were energetic and excited to start on bars, but they were a little conservative. They wanted to stay on and get through it to have an opportunity to perform well on the next event.

You can almost guarantee that they thought about the last two weeks a little bit. And depending how strong the team is mentally, it can either attack much harder or let the last two weeks fester and compete more conservatively.

We're just going to try to improve from our last week during this weekend's competition, and if we do well, I have a feeling we'll stay on top.

We're trying to be consistent and we're trying to be perfect. We don't have any defense - we can't do anything else against (the other team) - we have to do what we are capable of ourselves.

We just keep getting better. We realized we can do this, and we put it all together as a team.

We had positive results from our freshmen to our seniors. We are pleased with the team outcome, and our performances were strong.

There's been one event that's given us issues each weekend. The one thing that was disappointing (last weekend) was that we kind of fell through on beam, which was really good the first two weekends.

The nicest thing about (Saturday) is that we finished out on floor. For the freshmen coming into this, it's a big step for them to make sure they complete the whole meet.

Every week our goal is to try to make it very difficult for the judges. They have to dig deep to try to find a deduction.

As a coaching staff we're trying to make sure (the gymnasts) feel confident in what they're doing. We reassure them that the gymnastics they're doing looks really good, and they're going to be ready.