Ian Battles Quotations

I was pleased with the way we competed. Terre Haute North is a perennial contender to go to the state and North Central has been very competitive in the past few years. Getting second here was good.

We had a very good day. This is the first time we've beaten Princeton this year, and to beat both Princeton and Washington by good margins is very pleasing. We ran a great race.

I think the guys returning are all ahead of where they were last year. I just want to see the kids improve during the year. I think Zack will help us a lot this year. He's a very good athlete.

Ben Wright also ran a pretty good race. He's progressing nicely.

Ben did very well to place ninth. He ran a very good race.

It was a nice preview of what we'll see if we can get to the regional this year. We were only one point behind a sectional opponent in Gibson Southern. Our goal is to get out of the sectional. There are some things we have to work on to do that.

We should have fresh legs for the sectional and that will be good. I was pleased that we came so close to a really good team from Jasper.

Taylor ran an amazing race to finish fifth in a strong field of senior runners. I was pretty happy with our performance with seven sectional teams in the field.

By the end of the year, I hope the kids will think some of the ideas I had were good and that they are happy with the progress they've made. We're going to try and compete as well as we can. By the time the sectional comes around, we'll see what we can do.

It made me very happy to have two runners make all-conference. The kids stepped up and competed very well.

It's been a smooth transition. I'm using some of the things dad did and changing some. I've talked to coach (Ralph) Connor and coach (Bob) Swank to get some ideas. I've had a lot of good people around me.