I have some very good athletes on the team. I'd like to see the guys go five hundred in the conference. That would be a great step for them. If they could go five hundred and then bring all those guys back, that would be a good step for us. We can look at that as a year of progress.

Nicole will be busy ? she'll see four events. As good an athlete as Nicole is, Mahon is having a phenomenal season. But Nicole is right there.

He's shown a lot. He's run our best time in the 55 and the 200. He's looking quite strong.

All four ran solid times. It was a nice relay. Marcus and John are seniors, so it's nice for them.

He has a lot of talent and is working very hard. He's been impressive all season. He definitely has a lot of potential.

That's what we're going to focus on next year, is promoting the sport in the middle-school level. That's all fine, but that's a year off. We're just trying to keep the program together until we can get something going. We'd like to be competitive. We don't want to be just throwing bodies out there.

It's a good number (10), but I'd like to have a couple more. The fact that of the 10, I should have nine back next year is progress in itself. Numbers aren't an issue.

We felt if we focused on breaking school records, that will lead to our improvement in the meets. It's been successful. The kids have been using them as goals. A lot of them are newer, so they're very attainable goals to set out to break a school record.