Wake Forest/Ohio (Quotes - Coach Rose, Simone Lee, Nia Reed)

We played two matches today, and I thought we handled the ball pretty well until this match.  We ran into a tough serve, which certainly caused us some problems.  But we had good control of our net play.  Ohio is a great program with a rich tradition.  Right now they’ve got a number of players who are out because of injuries, so it wasn’t the Ohio team that traditionally wins their conference and is on the cusp of being in the top 25.  That’s disappointing for them.  I though Nia [Reed] came in and hit the ball well, and Simone [Lee] had a good match, and Haleigh [Washington] continues to score well.  We’ll need to work hard this week — we have Nebraska and Iowa coming up.  I think the players understand the importance of being prepared to play Big Ten play.

The Big Ten teams are going to be way more similar to Stanford [than to Yale, Wake Forest and Ohio] in the physical nature of their net play.  So we’ll have to adjust things . . . so our players don’t get tripped up by thinking they’re playing great because our numbers are good.  We weren’t getting those numbers against Stanford or Texas A&M or Colorado.  Those numbers were more reflective of teams that have players at the net who are the same size as our players, or bigger.