Today they played to their ability. They stepped up. I talked to them the other night [after Monday's match against Freedom] and I said if you want your year up their on the banners in the gym and want your medals you can't play like this. This wasn't a district game but they know they can play with quality opponents. |
We had some matches that could have gone either way. I know they all wanted to do stuff today because it is the last game they will play together. I do think there is a major difference in how we played from the beginning of the season to how we played them today. My girls have made really good strides. I only had three kids with experience. |
We need to keep working in practice. At the beginning of the year my singles didn't click and now my doubles don't click. I thought that No. 1 [doubles] did OK. I don't know if they put too much pressure on themselves or if I put too much pressure on them, but it is just not coming together right now. |
We played a lot of close matches with these kids and I think part of it was due to frustration. |
We've talked about it in the past. We've had some girls who are up 6-0 and then the next thing you know it's 7-5. Now they're starting to really put it together. |
You can tell the difference from now and when we played Freedom in our first match. I think we still could have done better. |