11 Quotes by John Harder

She was forced into a role that she not only accepted, but excelled at. I can't say enough good things.

Her (Schmidt's) offense has never been enough to win games, but her defense has set the tone for what we needed to do at Southeast. It was man-to-man, pressure defense and the kids never tired.

He was a leader, a good person. He represented what a student-athlete should be, played and practiced hard.

I think maybe the early part of the game it came too easy for us, and then we started to have to work for it and we weren't working hard. We hung in there and did what we needed to do to win the game.

I wasn't pleased at all. We did not play well in the second half. We refused to run a half-court offense, and it really cost us.

We didn't do a great job of guarding him.

We'd like to have been in the championship game, but we won two out of three and at times we played good basketball. We were disappointed but hopefully this gives us some momentum for next week's conference play.

Is there one or two who wish they could have started in her spot?. They haven't told me, and they haven't shown it. I think they've done the job to accept her in the most positive of ways. I've had teams in the past that would have made it very difficult here for her. And that's not the case with this team.

It's exciting to be in the championship. I won six districts in a row. I had at least one Division 1 player. This year I don't. I have a hard hustling and working team. They just work, work, work.