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Opening Statement:
Mick Haley (Head Coach) -
“Certainly you can imagine, we are immensely happy to be here. The whole focus was to get here this year, we did an awful lot of hard work last spring, we took an international trip, which had us drive 10 hours then play a match. We competed quite hard. We got a sense of team, then tried to integrate eight new freshman into that group. For three months we played musical chairs because of injuries. A great effort from our seniors, their leadership has gotten us to this point, and a superior group of young kids joining our program with great personalities and a desire to win. That has strengthened our team concept and we are extremely excited to be here.”
“We beat some very good teams to get here and played in a conference that almost made you hurt every night to try to sustain. Now we want to try to finish this.”
Diane Copenhagen (Senior Outside Hitter) – Concerning USC Women’s Soccer team winning the National Title this week and bringing home a second National Title in a week.
“We flew home from Gainsville on Sunday, as soon as we landed in Los Angeles all of us checked our missed calls from a bunch soccer players saying they won. They said go have fun and enjoy it, they never thought that they would end up there and they are rooting for us and hopefully we will be able to join in their fun.”
Mick Haley – Concerning the win over Stanford in Los Angeles
“That video is our regular Friday night entertainment, just kidding. We for the first time in that match started to get healthy, we played well. Taylor had a great match, I think Stanford will recognize that. We have been getting stronger and stronger throughout the year, I believe that was Oct. 27.”
“We have different quarters, versus semesters that we deal with. We have four or five quarter schools and four or five semester schools and they have testing periods at different times. So some of the times when you see us dip, we are right in the middle of a testing period and when you see them dip they are in the middle of a testing period. The real test for all of our schools is to see if we can maintain balance throughout the whole thing. ”
“We were very successful and hit for a high percentage that night and we will continue to try to do that, but we have improved and Diane is now back in the lineup, our captain, all the way around so we feel like we have got some added stuff. Gina did a great job and she is still contributing, Jess did a great job, we feel we have improved and I know Stanford has improved. So it’s the rubber match, it’s the third time.”
Taylor Carico (Sophomore Setter) – Concerning her offensive success this season
“My success is definitely to the passers and their consistency, because as accurate as they can get than it only helps me be more accurate and helps my hitters.”
Asia Kaczor (Senior Outisde Hitter) – Concerning her offensive success this season
“Taylor and the other players really helped me this season, I think that passing on our side was really great on our side. Diane and Jess did a great job passing, so Taylor’s job was easier and my job was easier.”
Mick Haley – Concerning Stanford’s serving?
“I think Stanford is playing at an absolutely phenomenal level. I don’t think there has been a collegiate team at this time of the year that has played like Stanford is playing. If you look at their last five matches, they have been scoring 24, 25 and in one case against UCLA 27 kills in a game. That doesn’t count aces and blocks. UCLA played a phenomenal game against Stanford, they had 20 kills, they gave them one point and Stanford scored 27 kills, had one stop and one ace. That means they scored 29 points of their 30 points to win. That is tremendous, so yes we worked a lot on serve – receive.”
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