12 Quotes by Russ Jewett

When it turned into a quad, I wanted to do something different. The rule book allows you to do one of two things: either score it like a championship meet (10, 8, 6, 4, 2, 1) or this alternate method, this (wasn't) a championship meet.

Some are doing really well as freshmen and some are doing well considering they're freshmen. It's always an adjustment in lots of different facets. They're doing a great job of getting integrated into our system and being good teammates, and some of them are actually performing well. The other ones will, given time.

Nobody made serious errors, in terms of how to prepare themselves. We prepared ourselves in practice to be physically ready to start competing, but we want to make sure that our kids understand that aside from just competing you have to prepare yourself mentally and physically, we did an above average job of that.

I don't know about his status for this weekend, but I can promise he won't be triple jumping.

I expected her to run around 2:11 or so ... and the race was pretty good, she was actually challenging for the win. Then (Bonds) pulled away from her.

We relied heavily on his triple jump last year, so hopefully he'll be back in a couple of weeks.

We've got the injury bug again with this men's team and that's very disappointing.

Those two girls are seniors and they've been chomping at the bit for three months to start competing. Here we are, so it's no surprise that they did really well. They're both going to vault considerably higher.

(Performances were) actually not bad. We obviously need to get a lot better in a few weeks when championship season comes, but the feel of it is that we're doing OK, in terms of progression. From where we were to where we want to be, I think we're OK.