Tanya Chaplin Quotations

With a young group, I think you really stay on top of things and you don't assume they know anything. So we've gone back to that again this year, really spelling out everything for them, making sure they know all the ropes, ins and outs of what's expected of them in practice and outside of practice.

She did phenomenal for anyone, but for a freshman to come in and ... win those is a great accomplishment.

That is so well deserved. She has competed in every meet in all-around and every routine has counted for us. That is phenomenal in itself. To have every routine you put up counting toward the team score, I don't remember someone actually doing that.

Megan did a phenomenal job on vault and floor and starting us off on floor. I think we were only a couple tenths ahead of Stanford going into floor. Stanford's a tough team and you really have to fight through 'til the end, so she really started us off strong on floor and they kept it going on through.

That's quite a few routines for a freshman class.

I think that they went out there a little tight, but that's actually not surprising to me. This was their first national championship. I was really proud that they stayed on their feet. They didn't have to count a fall and they fought hard for things.

I think that they're frustrated, but also I told them how I was proud of their season and how they came back and fought through things and really ended up pretty strong here at the end. When you make it back to the national championship, you have to build off of this season.

I think that when they went out they were a little tight because they were trying too hard. But that's actually not surprising to me in that every single one of them, this is the first national championships.

Each team changes but this definitely has been a big change for us. I think there's pros and cons about having a young team and I think right now they're doing an awesome job.

They learned a tremendous amount from this experience and we're going to take in everything over the next couple of days so that we can build off of this going into next season.