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Delaware State Player Quotes
Syracuse vs. Delaware State
December 22, 2009
Carrier Dome – Syracuse, N.Y.
Syracuse Student-Athlete Quotes
Lynnae Lampkins, Guard, Sophomore
On how she was pushing the ball:
“Coach told me to push the ball on every possession. That is what I was trying to do.”
On the team’s 10-0 start:
“It is great. We all get along. It is a lot of fun. At practice it is just straight competing all the time.”
Nicole Michael, Forward, Senior
On the team’s mismatch on the forward line:
“Coach told us to crash the boards. Our goal was to keep them under 12 on the offensive boards. That is what I was doing.”
On Coach Hillsman’s halftime speech telling the team that they would not go home for Christmas if the effort did not improve:
“He has been emphasizing that all week. We pretty much knew before the game started that we were not going home. He has been doing that for three years and we did not want to be the team that did not get to go home.”
On the team’s confidence level at this point in the season:
“We are very confident. With us getting along and playing together that is definitely a big step. We are very confident at 10-0 and we just want to keep going.”
On what she sees in freshmen forwards Kayla Alexander and Carmen Tyson-Thomas, compared to where she was as a freshman:
“They are great. To come in as freshmen and for us to have a team where we are all good and contribute is great, as opposed to me when I was a freshman there were a lot of things I had to do on my own. They are playing really well and they have three more years here. They are probably going to break my records here. That is good.”
Kayla Alexander, Forward, Freshman
On the second half emphasis to get her the ball and whether or not it was more open in the second half:
“In the second half I was actually looking to score and to use my height. In the first half I was not looking to score as much.”
On the influence of the upperclassmen:
“They are great. They are confident players, they know their stuff and they are very encouraging.”
