The first three events, we put the pressure on them and made them beat us. To count a fall on the beam was tough. It's one of our better events. But, Georgia had won it by then. Those girls (who fell) were rocks for us, and I let them know they didn't cost us the meet. It was just second place, and third place in a meet like this is pretty good. |
There are times when it's definitely to the University's benefit that we work together because we're working all the time. When we're home we still talk about it; we actually have to make a conscious decision not to talk about work. |
There's only been two times in our 28 years that we haven't worked together: when I was pregnant and in bed with our second child for four months and when David was recovering from kidney cancer. I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as when he was there. |
Things didn't go perfectly for us tonight. But I think what we learned from tonight will be invaluable for us down the road and will serve to make us a better team. We had great team work, we had enthusiasm and we saw great leadership from a few of our veterans. We also saw the determination and enthusiasm from our freshmen that are going to help us contend in the future. |
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To look at her face and see that smile pop up really says a lot about Terin's season. It's been my goal to let Terin have fun again with gymnastics, and she's starting to see that. |
Today was all about adjusting the equipment, getting a feel for it. We did a really good job of that, and staying loose and having fun. |
We are up against an extremely talented Stanford team next weekend. The fans are going see a meet that is going to come down to the wire. It's going to come down to who hits the final two routines of the meet. It will definitely be a sit on the edge of your seat type of meet and an awesome display of gymnastics. |
We gave it our all, and you have to give credit where credit is due. Georgia is one of the best gymnastics teams I've seen in the last 10 years. |
We struggled in practice this week and I think a lot of it was due to fatigue and the stress the ladies were under academically with mid-terms. Usually you perform like you practice but in this instance I though were able to do a little bit better. Certainly I was concerned coming into tonight's competition. |
When they ask for your occupation, I can't imagine there would be a little box to check describing my job. |