8 Quotes by Jeannie Thompson

She's a flat-out athlete. She's one of the quickest players on the team. To get her out in transition ahead of the other post players is a huge advantage for us.

She is flat out a great athlete. She is one of the quickest people on the team, so to get her out there in transition, ahead of the other post players has been a huge advantage. ... We're happy to have her here.

Moments like this are why you get into coaching. The girls have such a passion for the game, and to be a part of this team in a moment like this: There are really no words to describe it, just seeing how much fun they had and how much they enjoyed being out there tonight.

I was at the draw and I was looking around for some friendly female faces and I didn't see any.

To get a game like this under our belts and play hard, to challenge a high-caliber team like Prairie and give them a good run for their money definitely will help us out (today, in a loser-out game against Puyallup). And it says a lot about what we can do next year.

We looked at the game tapes. We saw that our spacing was off, and we didn't have good shot selection. We made the corrections that we needed to.

Lake Stevens came out tonight and played mistake-free basketball. We committed too many turnovers and missed a lot of shots that we have been making in the past.

Kristi is a young leader. She has a very good mind for the game as a sophomore. Offensively, she took the game over, took the ball and finished in the lane. She did a good job of stepping up under the pressure.