Freshmen Quotations | Page 3

We had a lot of freshmen last year and our team never really clicked. This year, we know each other better and we're communicating like a team.

We had a lot of doubters at the beginning of the season, but none of them were in our locker room. I truly believed we could do this as freshmen from day one.

We had a little more depth. We had a lot of freshmen move up. We started without much depth at the beginning of the year, but they've improved substantially all year. The freshmen who scored in the meet gave us a big boost.

We had freshmen competing at the varsity level. We weren't concerned with wins and losses.

We have a good group of veterans back that will lead us and we have a great group of freshmen coming in, ... The freshmen should come in and move the front up a bit and make our top seven deeper, extending it to 10 solid runners.

We have a lot of new players and a lot of freshmen this season,

We have a lot of new freshmen who really helped pick up for what we lost last year.

We've got some kids playing, some freshmen playing a lot of hockey for us right now. Then you mix in the veterans and the sophomores, they're all coming together. They're seeing what high school hockey is all about, it's a long season.

We're very young. Half the team is freshmen and sophomores, so we lack the experience that many teams with lots of seniors have.

We're very pleased with our rookies. We graduated seven seniors last year, and we knew heading into the season that some of our freshmen needed to step up.

We've done a good job of improving consistently all the way from the freshmen to the seniors. The coaches do not let us get caught up in winning.

We have a lot of young kids and it was a great way for them to start off the season, especially with all of our points coming from our freshmen class. Tamika scored two beautiful goals and to see Comfort get that last one was really something special. The two of them worked extremely well together. I also thought our defense was about as tough as I have seen it.

We have three freshmen kicking for us this year and all of them are going to do something.

We have three freshmen in their first race at 3 miles. They did well, considering.

Typically, when you're giving out 63 scholarships, you have 15 freshmen who aren't ready to play. A 12-game (regular) season is a lot of football with 48 guys.

Three freshmen are going to start. In past years we haven't had any.

Trey had a very good freshmen year and I expect big things from him this season.

We didn't do it last year without them (the freshmen). The freshmen are an amazing part of this team and they've grown up so much.

We need to add some more depth there though. We added some freshmen to the distance events so we have some fresh blood there and we're working hard and looking to improve there.

We have a veteran lineup but we have a very good nucleus of young kids, freshmen who also can play. They're getting their opportunities and making the best of them.

We are disappointed with the loss, but we have some much to look forward to next year. We had to do a lot of growing up as a team and we had to mature quickly. The experience our freshmen got this season will be very valuable for next year.

Two years ago we started seven freshmen, and we don't have any freshmen starting this year.

The pattern we see is when students have a rough freshmen year, they come back for their sophomore year. But if they have the same pattern, they start to lose hope and start looking at other options; sometimes it?s night school, sometimes it?s a GED.

We are definitely building this year. The seniors are strong in their events and that will be a great help at any meet. The juniors, although a small crew, have good experience. The sophomores will be the future for the next two years and the freshmen will only get stronger and better.

When half your team is freshmen and your wrestling a Division 1 schedule you're going to be in trouble. Imagine if half the offense and defense in football were freshman, there'd be real trouble there and we're in that same situation.

We still have a good team and will work hard at the national tournament. I'm pleased with the five freshmen who made the trip.

We're excited about it and now we're going to try our best to win a championship. But you've got to remember, 10 of our 14 kids are either freshmen or sophomores.

There are times during a game when we have five freshmen on the floor. I don't know if there's a younger basketball team in the country at this level.

We won't play as many freshmen this year as people think. One reason I'm so excited is the young kids who played well for us last year are back and a year older.

We'll see if some of these other guys can step up or see if we're going to be inserting some of the freshmen. Right now I'd say we'll be inserting some of the freshmen at wide receiver.

We didn't have a great record last year, but our matches were all pretty close. We just didn't close out very well. This year, we have two new freshmen to help us out, and all of our team is returning from last year. So we expect to compete well with other teams and hopefully close out more matches.

The data show that if the kids have a successful freshmen year they are more likely to graduate.

West Bend West is the newcomer in the conference race this year. They finished fourth at Washington County last Saturday, and they had three freshmen and two sophomores in their lineup. So the conference race won't be easy.

We start with them as freshmen and tell them they have to pass it. But in their minds, two or three years is a long way off.

We left a lot on base early on and it took big hits from the freshmen to get us going, but after Monty's home run everybody seemed to relax.

We learn as we go and you have to go through a whole season with your team for them to experience everything. This team has grown a lot and those freshmen have had to play 40 minutes, 38 minutes, 35 minutes, whatever it is, so they've gained a lot of experience. I don't think they're typical freshmen.

We only have three seniors. We have a big sophomore class and freshmen class. Obviously we hope we can do this again next year.

We competed well. Baylor obviously is good, but I'm pleased with the way we fought. And to have two freshmen go out and get wins, it shows how they're improving.

We (coaches) had an idea, but these kids have never been through something like this. I don't want to use the word ignorant, but I think they were not knowing enough to be scared of the situation or to feel the pressure. Helen felt it a little bit and the coaching staff felt it a little bit, but I thought the freshmen just went out and played.

We have got to get better on the bases. A lot of it is who we've got playing. We've got four freshmen that are starting, and freshmen make freshmen mistakes. There's some things we've got to learn from and get better. I think we will, but right now, I'll take the W.

We have gotten big minutes from our sophomores, juniors and freshmen all season long.

We have good, young, talented kids. And we have some freshmen and sophomores who will step in and play right away.

We have freshmen who have made a huge impact right away. The younger kids are just starting to tap into their talent.

We have five freshmen on the team so everything is new. They are very excited to get into SEC play. The team loves to play big games because these are the programs they strive to become.

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We're young, there are lots of freshmen out there. We when walk batters, then make that crucial mistake, it makes a big inning for them. We walked three in the sixth inning.

We knew that we had to come in and play big minutes. I know that's two freshmen and a walk-on. But I don't call myself a walk-on.

We've come a long way since the beginning of the season. We are starting five freshmen and five sophomores. We're going to make some young mistakes, but we've been cleaning up those mistakes and using some high-level moves.

This year, we have a lot of new girls and freshmen on the team. This win is a nice stepping stone. The girls are improving every time and we can't be more pleased with their progress.

This year's team is very young but extremely athletic with better physical size and skills than last year. Several freshmen will have to step up and start from day one. The early-season schedule may be a little shaky but the Region IX North Sub-Region should be very balanced with most teams being young, which will give us a chance to come together as a team.

We also have six promising freshmen out this year, which is the most we've had in a while.

We got lucky and a lot of talented seniors and freshmen (stepped up). And it's never hurts to get some help from someone else.

This will be the most freshmen on the floor that this series has seen in a long time.

When you have four injured offensive linemen that you think can really help you, that is not the situation we want. What was good was having the three freshmen get a lot of snaps, get a lot of work.

We made a couple of adjustments (following the first drive) on defense and that turned out to be big. We have six sophomores and two freshmen out there so there?s going to be a learning period. But that was one fine effort out there tonight.

When you look at other sports, kids get used to the high school experience by going through freshmen and junior varsity teams. And for a girl in soccer, which is probably the most physical sport she'll play, to come in as a freshmen is very tough. You have a 14-year old girl going against an 18-year old woman.

When the freshmen came in and we saw how good they were and we started to run a lot of three- and four-receiver sets in practice, that's when we started to think that this might be a special year.

Two of them did a nice job of being the leaders of the team. They helped the five freshmen adjust to how things ran at the high school.

Two minutes into the second half, I think we had three freshmen who played the rest of the game until Kelsey fouled out (late).

Expectations next year will be higher. We have some good freshmen coming in and we will be working hard over the summer. I think we will live up to those expectations.

We've been pretty good in all the months, but I guess that one stands out. We had a lot of confidence in the freshmen, but I am surprised at how well they have played defensively. That's always the toughest thing for freshmen and they still have a long way to go.

We seem to be getting good defense and good pitching. We just have to work on the hitting. We gotta get stronger. But you start six freshmen and three sophomores, you're going to get that.

We've been blessed with some shooters. Overall, this was our best game (of the season). Our freshmen came up big. They don't care what the situation is. They stay cool and composed.

We were emotionally up-and-down during the preseason. We started out 4-1 and felt really good, but then we ran into some adversity by losing four in a row. The girls started questioning themselves, and a lot of the freshmen thought they were going to be part of a successful team when they signed on.

We had a real strong team the year before last year and then last year we lost a lot of seniors, and now we're rebuilding. This year we have 10 freshmen so we are rebuilding even more.

We had a really young group there and we had to lean on them and said, 'You're freshmen but you can't play like one because we need you.' That's very similar to what we're doing here. It gives me a lot of hope because that group went on after we were gone and competed very well at the Horizon League level.

We've had as many as six freshmen starting for us this year. Five are entered in the section tournament.

We've had patience with the freshmen and look at it from a game-to-game standpoint. We're trying not to measure things just on wins and losses. We're trying to gauge improvement. We're building anew and it takes time. Rodney has really helped us at the point.

We've got a good group of sophomores and hopefully they can communicate to the freshmen what it takes to get it done in conference play. We just have to understand that it's a marathon and not a sprint. It' s a matter of who's got the most perseverance.

We've got a bunch of good, young players, and we expect them to develop quickly. We've got six freshmen on the team right now, so we're already looking forward to the future.

To start three freshmen is a scary thing. They took their lumps, made some plays and got better.

We all think it's very bright. Us being freshmen right now, playing in the SEC and being able to hold our own against Alabama, Florida and LSU, that tells us if we keep working hard we'll be right up there with them.

The reason for that was, the season before I got there, it was the first year freshmen could play. All those stats that had been collected, those people had been playing for three years.

We will pretty much count on our defense to get it done, ... We would like to win the division and continue to compete with the teams in our league. This is the toughest league in the state, so it makes it a little more difficult for us, but we want to set our goals high and work to achieve them. We do have a lot of good athletes, especially in the freshmen and sophomore classes, so the sooner they get some experience the better we will be in the long run.

We had a good season. I'm proud of the guys. They came together. We had mixtures of some solid seniors and brought some freshmen and sophomores up. We got good experience all year, and the future's very bright.

We've got a lot of people going out there and trying their best and going out there and playing positions they've never played before. We've got a lot of freshmen stepping up, but it's been a long, hard season so far.

We have a couple of freshmen this year that can be good players, so if I can help them out, it will help make our team better.

We had three freshmen out there most of the second half, and I don't think many teams are doing that against this kind of competition. It's not to get ready to play in a couple of years, they're going to be out there now. Through 11 games, they've improved significantly, especially on defense, and you don't see that very often out of freshmen.

Those two freshmen are great defenders. They're playing like sophomores and juniors.

Those true freshmen deserve all the media attention they're getting.

Those three freshmen have a lot of big-meet experience, and that's going to pay off for them. They're a lot more mature than freshmen I've had in the past. They're all wildcards for us going into the state meet, but I feel real confident about their abilities. They're real focused and positive.

Those six ladies are priceless. Not only are they leaders, they are fabulous role models. They work and play hard. We couldn't ask for better footsteps four our freshmen and sophomores to follow in.

This team needs to give some maximum effort and that has not been the case over the holiday season. Quite honestly, I think our seniors have tried to do a good job of leading this team and being patient. But now it's time for some of these sophomore and freshmen kids to stop acting like babies and start playing like young men. It was a great meeting but now it's time to quit talking about it and start doing it.

This team is really young. We have good freshmen stepping up big time. They've been swimming for a very long time and know the drills.

What Pete and Jake did this year as leaders is what Jake and Matt will have to do next year. Matt would've been a district qualifier and maybe even a state qualifier if he'd not gotten hurt, so we're going to be improved next season, especially with the experience these freshmen got.

We were three players down, and it was our third game in three days. We didn't have the depth to compete with them. Of our eight eligible players, four were freshmen and one was a sophomore. It was a difficult game - but we should have competed better. We just couldn't match their size or quickness, and that was the game.

We got a little tired and lost a couple we shouldn't have. Our freshmen really stepped up and played well, though, which was really encouraging to see.

We have 43 freshmen out there. A lot of those will have to play,

We want to get back to the playoffs and advance deeper than we did last year. But overall, the program has definitely turned around. The school is very supportive. We're bringing a lot of fans to the game. We had a good group of freshmen come into the program this year. We have a good balance on the team.

You have a bunch of guys where a couple have won a national championship, and the freshmen are from very good high schools. We beat Cornell by a goal; we beat Princeton by two goals. We have some good leadership and excellent freshmen.

You had two freshmen (Hiram Thompson and Dominic Waters) in there together and we weren't able to rest some of the other guys and I think it caught up to us in the second half. I think we lost a little bit of control of the game right there at the end (of the first half).

What a way for them to go out. I'm also excited for our freshmen because I want them to set this as a precedent for how it's going to be for them for the next four years.

Thurgood was amazing. He came up huge when it counted. We have two freshmen out there paying the price in pressure situations. It's going to pay big dividends in the future.

We just needed time to get used to each other. A new coach, five incoming freshmen - that was obviously going to take some time for people to gel and come together under a new system to work together.

We just wanted to help the freshmen settle in. We've found a way to stop the other teams from scoring. I'm so confident in every person we put on the ice.

We lose so much after this year with seven seniors graduating. Having two freshmen starting to become leaders for our team really bodes well for not only next year, but two or three years down the road.

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With four freshmen starting, you always worry about the confidence of your team. It was nice to be able to get one against Georgia, a very physical and tough team.

We felt like we were one sweep away from getting back in the race, and we were able to accomplish that this weekend. We pitched a lot of freshmen today and it was good to see them come away with a victory.

We're going to be highly competitive. Most of the other teams in the league have a lot of upper classmen; we're heavy in freshmen and sophomores, but they're improving every time out.