26 Quotes by Sarah Patterson

Our conference championship in Birmingham had the big crowd and it had all the pressure. Make no mistake about it, the meet schedule we have to compete between each other has made each other better. Some teams, you go up against twice, so there's not much break in your schedule.

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The biggest thing we tried to do this season was develop depth, and it wasn't really happening about midway through the season. You never know when something can happen, and Michelle is ready to step up when we need her. Her performance tonight was awesome.

Things didn't go perfectly for us tonight. But I think what we learned from tonight will be invaluable for us down the road and will serve to make us a better team. We had great team work, we had enthusiasm and we saw great leadership from a few of our veterans. We also saw the determination and enthusiasm from our freshmen that are going to help us contend in the future.

I'm hoping that Birmingham is fan-friendly. You put four judges in it and you're taking it to the podium, that takes out some of the advantage.

Being at the national championships never gets old. And advancing to the Super Six is a highlight of the year. You never take it for granted. I think what happened to us, will only serve to make us better (tonight).

I figured it would be really close. I told the ladies coming into the meet that we would have to really hit our floor routines to win.

The first three events, we put the pressure on them and made them beat us. To count a fall on the beam was tough. It's one of our better events. But, Georgia had won it by then. Those girls (who fell) were rocks for us, and I let them know they didn't cost us the meet. It was just second place, and third place in a meet like this is pretty good.