They were all big fishes in a little pond. They got up there [to the meet] and it’s like ‘We have work to do.’ I saw that hard work in practice [Monday].

She’s really a boost for us. Whatever we need her to do she does. Her technique work is great in all four strokes.

Since we have split, if we work hard, and if I can figure everything out; putting swimmers into the right events, we could take second if not first.

They have lots of potential. For three of them their first love is water polo instead of swimming. And swimming strokes is different from water-polo strokes, so for three of them it’s getting into conditioning,...