Quotes about mandy (15 Quotes)


    We just weren't getting after it. (Oregon State's Mandy Close) is their best three-point shooter. You don't give her a three-pointer. We weren't taking things away. I just challenged them to start doing the things that they're capable of doing, and they did.




    On the last goal Mandy sent the ball over the defense to me. I shot and it bounced off the goalie. Everybody was fighting for it. Somehow I ended up with it and shot.



    They have three forwards that play very well inside and can really get going and they're big and athletic. They've got some guards like Rivera and Mandy Close that are capable of hurting you from the perimeter. So it wasn't a situation where we were really looking to double-team or anything, but we wanted to play really solidly defensively.


    I didn't see Angela until her second-to-last high school basketball game. I didn't know much about her until my student assistant at the time, Mandy Sterling, told me I had to see her play. Scott Eaton (NKU associate athletic director) had kids at Highlands, and he told me about her too. So I figured I needed to head over there to see her play, and I liked what I saw.

    She's been one of those people that has been able to play both sports, keep her grades up and then she, (teammate) Mandy (Lance) and (team chaplain) Todd Allen have started a Wednesday night youth group. All of her ducks are in a row.



    I sat beside Mandy at the Pac-10 Media Day (in November) and we left early because no one was asking us any questions. On the cab back to the airport we made a promise to each other that we wouldn't finish last. We took that to the rest of the team and that's been a tribute to them.

    I was kind of by the 18-yard box. Mandy sent a really good ball to me, but I couldn't go with it. So I settled and turned. I saw an opening and took a shot.

    Mandy has done a good job of being near the strike zone. She was throwing good enough pitches to get them to chase. Now, the detriment to us is when we have good opportunities to get outs, we hang a ball and they get a get a base hit and score two. That happened a couple of times tonight.



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