In all the coaching clinics that I've taken, one of the comments you always hear is that if you coach a long time, at least once you will get the pleasure of coaching an athlete that could be at the Olympic level. I really feel that, in my career, she'll probably be the athlete that has a chance at becoming an Olympic athlete.

They are the two most consistent penalty kick takers we have. But normally if (a player) is involved in a play, I do not let that individual take it. That player might be too emotional, and it's bitten me before. But at the last second, I said, 'You guys make the decision. One of you is going to take it.' I think they made the right decision.

For a spectator this was a great game to watch. You could tell they had the momentum, then we had it and then they had it. It was a very, very close match. I feel fortunate, but I'm glad we came out on top because it was anybody's game.

Alyssa did a great job. There were a couple of misunderstandings between her and Michelle because they were new to each other, but that was expected. I was very pleased with her. Alyssa was able to contain certain situations and cut off a lot of passes. She played very hard.

Defensively, they hung in there, knocked the ball around and slowed the pace down. That's exactly what we wanted to do.

The momentum was with us. We had it after that penalty kick. We created our chances. But for her to take that kind of a shot and surprise the goalkeeper like that, you could see our whole team get up and get ready to go.

Brittany didn't score, but she went hard to the ball and definitely showed a lot of heart. Erika did a real nice job on defense on both sides of the field and looked very good.

What can I say? Anytime you win it feels good. I'm proud of the girls for hanging in there.

We had an opportunity. They had an opportunity. This is one of those games where it could go either way. I'm definitely glad to be on the top end of it.

You knew they weren't going to give up. We saw that the other night. I'm telling you, I was concerned toward the end.