Leah was solid in all three of her events. She will impress a lot of people this year. |
Lindsay ran a good race. We would have liked to see the other women runners close the gap a little though, but it was a nice way to get our feet wet. |
Most records get broken by small margins. This was a no-doubter. |
Obviously, when you break a school record it means a lot. She is amazingly talented. She is doing things that typically takes two or three people to do. |
Obviously, when you can defend your title it shows how good of an athlete you are. And to do it by beating the No. 1 seed is impressive. |
On the men's side we are short in some areas, so we hope to see strong performances out of the areas in which we have strong athletes. We look to continue developing in our throwing events, while also getting our distance runners going. |
Our goal on the men's side is to be where we were a year ago, if not better, and for Rickey and John to improve their qualifying marks, and for others, like David Rae , to make it onto the national lists. Rickey is going in trying to defend his title. If he is able to do that, it will get us rolling. We also hope to score well in the pole vault because we have four solid athletes in it. David Rae is capable of scoring us some major points in the 3,000. We are a young team, but we have a lot of people capable of doing great things. Hopefully, Big Tens will be an awakening for them to compete at a high level. |
Our last place team could have probably won many conferences across the nation. That's the good thing about it (Big Ten). It spears the athletes on and pushes them to better performances and that is why we are here. |
Our team has a chance to really establish the Purdue program. I expect our men to finish in the top three. |
Our training as a team is on pace. We are looking better than we did a year ago. |
Our women should be pretty competitive. It should be a pretty balanced meet for us and we should do well in the scoring. |
Quite a few of our athletes will be off this weekend, getting rested and ready for next weekend's Big Ten meets. This meet should be pretty low key, but it will offer us a chance for final preparations and tune ups for Big Tens. Those athletes who need to rest will rest and those who need fine tuning will have an opportunity to do that as well. |
Rickey was solid on the men's side. |
Right now she is closing in on the school records for both of those events. She will break those before the end of the season. She is ready to have a great season. |
She came in and enjoyed some success as a freshman and sophomore and then she got voted as a captain. She's been a tremendous leader, a solid performer and we're going to miss her bright smile every day. |