Rick Risinger Quotations

We're extremely excited about this opportunity. We always try to make our schedule as tough as we can, and this is an added challenge.

We've been in the IHSAA for four years and Doc was instrumental in building this program. I was a good friend of Doc and it's great to bring something home that he started. This was a very satisfying year, but this is the first time we've felt like celebrating.

I coached both of them at the AAU level and tried to teach the game of basketball. In some ways I think they've kind of appreciated that type of insight to it, versus maybe just organizing and going out and playing hard. It's nice that they're getting involved with it on a voluntary basis.

I think both teams, obviously, have a whole lot more experience this time of the year than we did (then). Both programs were still in the early stages of development. From our standpoint, we had quite a few freshmen stepping up.

We don't want to celebrate too much. This one's over now; now it's time to get ready for next week.

Emily had a real good game today. We saw an opportunity to use her abilities, and it worked. We were able to have her leak out, run the floor in transition and get some easy baskets. She's explosive, and we reaped the benefits of that today by turning her loose.

I use the lack of a shot clock to my advantage for my team. If there was a shot clock, I'd change my philosophy on how to approach the game.

It's a special treat. They've been around basketball long enough that some of that's in their blood.

I knew they had some talent. The question was whether we could bring discipline to that talent. During the course of the year, I think we've done that.

I could have one girl get the points tonight, and on another night another girl steps up. That's the balance I've been looking for all year, which is kind of coming together at this point.

These games are like boxing matches sometimes with give and take. We had a stretch there that was a dogfight, but we had the patience to work through it and Kayla played a phenomenal game.