“Instead of sitting in the locker room feeling bad about ourselves, she’s saying ‘hey, let’s everybody say one thing that we’re going to commit to getting better,'” Gross said. “It turns it into ‘alright we’re on a mission here’ and that’s important to our team, and that’s got to be what we do from now until March.”
“My teammates and the coaching staff believe in me to make sure that I get to the rim,” Turner said. “They put me in a position to score, and I think it’s just been a mentality that I continue that I go here at Davis is that we’re going to get the job done, I’m going to get the job done because I have so much belief in me.”
Added Gross, “She’s the one everybody wants to play with because she’s so much fun. She brings such an amazing joy to the court whenever she steps on it, and yet, she’s also the fiercest competitor I’ve ever coached. The passion shows up in so many ways. We’ve had some great leaders over the last couple of years, so to see her step into a role now where this is her team. She’s taken ownership on that, finding ways to connect with each and every person on the team to say ‘hey, come with me on this, let’s go.’ She has a lot of weight on her shoulders.”
“Obviously, not our day today,” Gross said. “We’re all disappointed with the outcome.”
“Sac State is a good team,” Gross said. “Going into this game, we knew that. We knew that they had some weapons that were going to be tough for us, and they played a very good game. They shot the ball well. They executed. So, congrats to them.”
“We’re a young team,” Gross said. “We’re a team that has a lot of new pieces. We said from Day 1: our goal is, regardless of the outcome of any one particular game, we’re just going to continue to get better and better and better. I think that’s what I love about this team, our binds are really strong.”
“Jenn and UC Davis are a phenomenal program and have been for a long time,” Campbell said of his opposite number. “The utmost respect for them. Our program has a lot of respect for them. This was a big game for us. Tonight, we caught up to those guys.”
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