16 Quotes by Bob Starkell

We achieved some of our goals that we were looking forward to doing. Overall we made an improvement from last week, and now we can start working on cleaning things up and being really sharp.

We are taking this one week at a time. If we start getting ahead of ourselves, we get lost in practice and we can't concentrate on the things we need to make due for next weekend.

Cara Pomeroy led the way in her competitive nature and how she carries herself to compete really well.

Cara always has some of the strongest performances.

For us to fare well, especially on beam, it's great to have Julie on the event. Our next step is to try to get her on bars, and if we can get her on the floor she will feel a little more comfortable about being consistent.

Our best event of the night was vault. The athletes took full advantage of knowing it was an NCAA meet and they had to finish out strong and feel like they accomplished something.

The athletes were energetic and excited to start on bars, but they were a little conservative. They wanted to stay on and get through it to have an opportunity to perform well on the next event.

You can almost guarantee that they thought about the last two weeks a little bit. And depending how strong the team is mentally, it can either attack much harder or let the last two weeks fester and compete more conservatively.

We're just going to try to improve from our last week during this weekend's competition, and if we do well, I have a feeling we'll stay on top.