Silas Almgren Quotes (13 Quotes)

We need to retool and get hungry for a qualifying time.

It was a really nice performance both days. We would have finished ahead of Grand Junction, but we didn't have a diving team.

I'm kind of surprised how well we swam after a good weekend. We didn't have a flat meet and a few (girls) even improved (since Saturday).

The bottom line is it is a very rare kid that cannot reach our standard at the high school. If the student is going to class and doing the prescribed homework, turning in their work and talking to the teacher they will always be eligible.

This was actually a goal that we set as a team. We are just trying to improve at every meet and some of the meets we have had quite a bit of success. Overall, we are on track where we want to be. As a team we have done really well.

In the individual events we scored well. They're getting us up with some confidence for the end of the season.

I have the perspective of both sides, being a teacher at the high school and being a coach. The kids have to recognize that we aren't trying to make it exclusive or too hard, but it should not be a right to be a participant in athletics it should be a privilege that should occur after the academic side is taken care of.

It was a tremendous performance this weekend. We really benefited from many things. We aren't a powerhouse and we pretty much are a team that's done everything on hard work.

They have been impressive this season. This will be a good meet for our entire team to compete in.

Melanie has a chance in the 500-freestyle, if she cuts 15 seconds from her time she really has a chance.

It's hard to predict what the other teams are going to do, we just have to continue to do the best we can do and work on fine-tuning things we need to work on. There are still quite a bit of balanced teams out there.

This meet showed that we are on the right path. We have a team with quite a lot of potential, which will help us reach our goal.

It's simply her consistent work.