I really hate excuses, but we probably had two of the most intense weeks of training the last two weeks. I was not about to sacrifice swimming fast later on just for the satisfaction of swimming fast in a dual meet. I will never do that.
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Our depth is going to be what is going to come up for us against Drury. Drury has horses. They have about four or five horses that are really strong in individual events. At the same time, in order for Drury coach Brian Reynolds to even try and win a relay he's going to have to throw all four of them on one relay, where we have both of our relays equally strong. If we make up those 32 points it's going to be on our depth.Mark Gole
Western Illinois wasn't the strongest of opponents. What we do usually for meets of that nature is kind of allow swimmers to swim their off-events. Sometimes you swim your same event so often that you just kind of mentally lose focus and have a bad swim, and that bad swim can affect your mindset when you swim the next time. I liked the opportunity to have the majority of the team swim off events.
Mark Gole
Honestly, it was a disappointing meet for them. There's many factors that can go into it - I shoulder the blame for some of it. But, at the same time, the first couple of days there, I don't think their heads were in the right place.
Mark Gole
It's really tough mentally for the swimmers who have qualified for nationals because they are still training like it's the middle of the season. They are still hurting their bodies.
Mark Gole
To be honest, that's what I wanted. I didn't want to have to go into day three going, 'Is this the day we're going to come back' I didn't want to come back. I wanted to set everything up and win it outright.
Mark Gole
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