Jason Hafner Swim Quotations

We made the qualifying time in the medley relay. We're seeded 18th. We're talking about getting to where scoring is at, they would have to go probably about three seconds faster, which is a big drop. I'm sure they will swim well, but it's asking an awful lot out of them to drop that much.

When you get to state, half of the kids will swim slower than they did at districts, half are going to go faster. It doesn't mean a whole lot what you see on paper.

We're going to get them in and have them swim tomorrow. We have to have them loosen down after swimming hard for two days. We have to start to get them ready for state.

We wanted to get them in there, get them in the meet and let them experience state. It's a lot different type of meet. There's a lot of stress and pressure on them. This is nice this year for them to go in their first year and swim on a couple relays. It looks like they got a good shot at swimming on Saturday. The more races you get at that level, the better.

Both on the guys and girls side, tomorrow is where it counts. Those swimmers got to go a little bit easier today. The ones where we needed to have them go and swim fast, those kids swam fast.

It's hard to get them back up and swim in the finals. To be within a second or so in the relay, it's a pretty good swim for them.