Mat Sprague Quotations

We want to promote it as much as we can. This week is for the kids, they work hard and they have a beautiful facility. We have two chances this year to show it off and do it right.

I would have rather had a league title for the school and the kids, but it's an accomplishment I'm proud of.

From where've come, third place and eight qualifiers is huge.

He dominated a little more than the score showed. At state, he's been there before, he shouldn't be star struck and he should be ready to go.

Every kid has a winnable match. On a bad weekend, we get three kids to place and on a good weekend we get all eight to place.

Considering where the program has come from, it's a major accomplishment.

It was a huge learning experience. It was great practice for a two-day meet in terms of holding their weight and keeping our focus over that length of time. The team bonded and I think we want to go back next year.

The stress is out of the way, we're putting the pedal to the metal for state and district.

A lot of teams were using this as a tune-up for state and district, but we were putting pressure on the kids to perform, perform, perform. Everybody kept a good attitude and I was happy with how they responded.

They're going to have to wrestle well, but they all could place. Right now, they're in the top 32 in the state and every match they win that number gets smaller. It's a good accomplishment to get to the final 32, but let's build on it.

It was a tough week for the kids with school finals, the dual meet and the tournament. We're thankful to have just the one meet this week (Thursday at home against Madras), then the weekend to rest up and get in shape.

It's going to be a stretch, but if the fall on their face here and we wrestle well, we can beat them. We want to send the seniors off on a fun night.

They were thinking they were going to beat us Wilsonville has been mopped up for years in the Tri-Valley League so when we beat them, we got some surprised looks.

All year long, we've been stressing to the JV unit that they can score points and they can contribute. I'm looking forward to a good week of training and getting these guys to go out and perform as a team one more time.