Jeff Thompson Best Quotations

Nobody over there wants to be on the first team that loses to us again. We know we'll get their best lineup. We've got the skill level to hang with them and make it close in the end. When you can make them worry about being the first to lose to Auburn in like 85 contests, maybe that will play to our advantage.

Julie finished similar to how she did last year at the championships, where she was bumped from the finals at the end. She's just been solid for us on beam all season long and I thought her vault was the best vault she's ever done.

We really proved a point. We can compete with the best teams in the country.

We had a good start. We had our best vaults of the year and we won the vault as a team tonight. I'm really proud of our team in the event. Unfortunately, our youth and inexperience in big meets caught up to us tonight.

We are very pleased with tonight's performance. Although vault and bars weren't the best we've done this season, I was very happy with the way they rebounded on beam and floor. I think the girls may have been looking ahead to next week's rematch with Alabama and not really concentrating on the performances needed to defeat Illinois-Chicago.

These guys already are the fastest and best of the best just by being here today.