18 Quotes by Jim Pappas

This year at state he was ready to go and he dominated his first opponent. It was a great performance and he's obviously going to be tough to replace.

We were only one point away from being eighth. The wrestlers have been working especially hard to improve their first half of the season's performances and overall they started the new year much improved.

We got out of the basement of the Raccoon River Conference and we then wrestled our very best at districts.

Evan performed well and Jim wrestled two really fine matches to get into the finals.

Evan is a great competitor and exceptionally dedicated. He's a great example for our program and a champion regardless of the outcome.

Zack wrestled really well in coming back to try for second and we knew that Sean was going to have a tough go.

They made some big plays when they needed to, and we weren't able to make them when we needed them.

They did a good job of playing defense on the perimeter, and that ability to defend out front kept us from getting our inside game going. We missed some easy looks inside, too.

I'm not so impressed with the eighth-place finish. But the kids wrestled hard and I think we're ready to go into the sectional tournament.