The competition is going to be fierce. I guess the positive thing for us is we don't have to fly across the country.

For them to come together and be able to be one of the top 12 teams in the country at the end of the season says a lot for such a young group and I'm really excited for the future. They're determined to take this experience and build off of it.

I'm really pleased with them. They continue to impress me. There are so many positives that came out of this meet and they are right on track.

I know this has been a tremendously challenging year for Chris. It's hard when any athlete has to go through something like this, but to have a disease where you can't communicate with your parent anymore is tremendously hard. You can communicate in other ways.

They learned a tremendous amount from this experience and we're going to take in everything over the next couple of days so that we can build off of this going into next season.

It was nice for them to tie because they push each other every day. It was nice to see them rewarded at the top.

That is so well deserved. She has competed in every meet in all-around and every routine has counted for us. That is phenomenal in itself. To have every routine you put up counting toward the team score, I don't remember someone actually doing that.

Each team changes but this definitely has been a big change for us. I think there's pros and cons about having a young team and I think right now they're doing an awesome job.

That's quite a few routines for a freshman class.

It's like springs in her legs. It's pretty amazing how high she can get up.