That loss woke us up. We knew that we had to work harder if we were going to have a good season.

Confidence is really high right now with everybody. Because everybody swam so well at sectionals, they're just ready to do better at state.

Ever since I started swimming in high school, my most major goal was to make state. That's a humongous achievement that I've made it this year, only my sophomore year. Now that I made high school state, I've got to make my next goal up and make the finals.

I figured we had a 50-50 chance of making it to the states. We felt we had depth but we didn't know what the competition would be like.

We had to play more. Playing in matches during the week wasn't enough.