If you didn’t know her, you’d never know she won state. We’ve even been at events where we chant ‘Sonja won state, Sonja won state,’ because she would never admit it.

We definitely started to wake up and came together as a unit in the second half.

Sonja leads us vocally, but she also leads us by going out on the hill and showing us how to ski down it. She sets a great example, and she definitely showed that today (Thursday)....

We had a good section meet, but we didn’t want to put too much pressure on ourselves because it’s a lot easier if we just go out and have fun. We didn’t go all out...

We had all just participated in the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life at the high school, when we stay awake for about 24 hours straight. We were a little sleepy.