Lesley Sheehan Quotations

We face UNH and Columbia this weekend, and we usually play well against both teams. I am very confident about our chances this weekend.

We're really close to becoming one of the top teams. We've been competitive.

She's such a competitor. (Friday), she lost the first set and I knew that she'd come back. She won the last two sets. She's got a lot of style and she has a lot of shots. She's only a sophomore and we know she has a lot of talent. Now, it's a matter of learning how to play the top players around the country.

She's only a sophomore and I started off playing her at No.3 singles and she only lost one match so I moved her to No. 2 (singles) and she went 9-0. Then she began playing at No. 1 singles.

Gina's opponent played really well. It wasn't really a case of Gina playing any worse; it was just that her opponent played so well.

We switched Erin to the number two position. She played much better.

I was proud of the way our girls handled themselves today. There was a lot of name calling and trash talking going on from their players, things like that, but our team played with a lot of class. Our girls kept their cool and showed a lot of poise and character. My team played with a lot of heart today.

We played great. We're currently playing the best tennis we have all year.

We played really well. They didn't even take a set off of us.

We played against the 18th-ranked team out of maybe 350 Division I programs, so we're talking maybe one of the 20 best teams in the country. Harvard is a very solid and very deep team. We played them tough.

We competed the best we could out there. They were stronger than we were on Saturday.

This was a great weekend overall for us. We beat two top-of-the-conference teams.

We were really aggressive on the doubles. We lost the doubles point last year, but won easily this year.

Besides the third match, I think this doubles performance was one of our better performances. They just do some things better. They closed into the net well and were a little more aggressive, they put the pressure on us and they were able to win a lot of the big points.

Erin played well and kept battling. The match was going back and forth the whole time. Unfortunately for Erin, her opponent just hit the right shots at the right time. I thought she gave a great effort.

Erin played great tennis out there. She had a good chance to take a game or two.

I've been trying to get the team to play nationally. It should help us get going. I definitely think it should help us as the season progresses.

One challenge you have when facing a ranked team is how you prepare. It is difficult to prepare for a team with that much talent who you do not face on a regular basis.

It is unusual to pair freshman together. They have been very steady throughout the entire season.

Danielle's a freshman, and there was a lot of pressure, but she worked really hard and changed her game. She was up, then down, then up again. I feel great. This was a roller coaster match. I was very pleased, especially considering they beat us last year 7-0.

The No. 1 and No. 2 singles bounced back. They beat the same girls they had a problem with last year.

It will be nice to play on a consistent surface in warm weather, as opposed to here. We are going to play some nationally ranked teams, but we can beat anyone -- we just have to be confident when we step on the court.

It was great doubles and could have gone either way. It's tough to lose the doubles, because you always want that first point, but we're playing well, and now we just need to win four singles matches.

I'm pleased overall. After they beat us, they went on to upset Michigan, who at the time was ranked No. 22 in the U.S. So I'm happy with how we were able to play with them.

I'm not worried about the rest of the season. We have a very deep team in the America East. We will be seeded No. 1 in the conference tournament.

All of our singles matches were good. They were all close, and it was nice to come out on top in the second through fifth singles matches.