Kelley Hester Quotations

If we're two, five, eight, 11 or 14 (overall), I think we'll be in the Central Region (in College Station). I don't think we'll slip five or six spots in the polls to drop out of the top 15, so it still depends.

We didn't play real well today. We didn't quite have our best stuff this week. Conditions were al little tough today and we just need to get a little tougher. Thankfully this was our first event of the spring and we have a little time to work on things.

Obviously, I?m very disappointed. We?re a much better golf team than we played today. The conditions were not easy and all of the scores were on the high side. I expect more from this group of kids though and I really think we can come back tomorrow and improve.

There is a pretty good supporting cast. But she attracts most of the attention because she is good and she is local.

We set some goals in the fall and for the first time in my coaching career, I had to ask the team to reset them because they've shattered the previous ones. We set out to improve our team stroke average and I think we did that by five strokes and we've been in the top five in nearly every event we've competed in with a shot to win each of them.

Ashley was really sick last night. She was up all night and I thought I was going to have to pull her off the golf course today. She really toughed it out and hung in there. I was proud of her.

We've really worked hard for this time of the year (to get here). We had a really good fall and I was pleased, but we know it could have been even better.

Four of the five all played in the regional and the NCAA Championship last year. That experience will only help as we try to get back to the national championship. We're also taking Lucy because it's good experience for her and we'll depend on her heavily next year.

Amanda is a special talent. She's performed very consistently in her three and a half seasons here and it's fun to see her win. It's her second win of the season and both were pretty big wins. Golf is not a game where you always reap the benefits for your hard work so its fun to see her do that. She's got some confidence as we build toward the end of the season.

We are very driven to have a great spring. We don't play any weak fields.