By Brice Biggin
Head Coach
It energizes the girls any time we get a crowd like we did last week for the Flip For The Cure.
We needed a big meet, and hopefully it gives us something to look forward to. It’ll be interesting to see what happens the next time we are home March 6 vs. Bowling Green. That will be on a Thursday because the Mid-American Conference Wrestling Championships are that weekend at the M.A.C. Center.
I’m not sure what competing on a Thursday will do to our attendance because we have a lot of families and kids who come to see us. Will they come out on a Thursday? We are hoping they do.
The Flip For The Cure was a fantastic crowd, and I am very happy that we are getting such great support for the cause. To get that type of crowd here also says a lot about our program, too. Attendance right now for us is very good.
We had two weeks to prepare for the meet with Northern Illinois and we saw the benefit of the work we put in during that time. We had the best performance of the season on beam, and we spent a lot of time on that and hopefully our athletes take some confidence from that performance.
We are gone now for the next three weeks, and they will have to produce like that on the road if we are going to be a good team. We have obviously our biggest test of the year coming up at Central Michigan this weekend, so we need to be able to go out there, relax and be confident.
We’ll find out a little bit this week from our trainer about where Olivia Trout is with her injury. She has been battling an injury for the last two weeks and hasn’t been able to do much of anything. Even if she is healthy this week, I don’t know if she will get enough time in and the repetitions she needs to compete. The good news is we have really had kids step up and fill in spots in the lineup. They’ve just done a great job. It has been kind of a M.A.S.H. unit for us with small injuries that just keep coming. But because of that we’ve been tested and we’ve found answers with kids stepping in and doing the job.
With this weekend, we know Central Michigan is a very good team that has competed well all season long. We have to understand that we go down there focusing on ourselves as a team. We can’t worry about them. Our focus has to be 100 percent on ourselves and how we perform. If we can start out very steady like we did this week, we’ll be fine. We started on bars, and that has been a pretty good event for us. It’s nice to start on an event you feel comfortable with. Those kids have done a very good job. If we start off well on there, then go do some good vaults and keep ourselves right in the meet, then anything can happen in the last two events.
This is another meet and another MAC team and another score we are looking for to help in our regional ranking. We are 25th in the nation right now and that’s good. If we can stay right around that top 25 and put a couple of good away scores up there, that will help us. They take the top 36, and as long as we stay in that top 36 we’ll be ok. We would like to stay somewhere in the top 28, and that’s a realistic goal for this team.
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