Practice begins early this AM for the defending Big Ten Champs

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From Brent Wagner's "Five Things To Watch" article, here are Wagner's five key points:

 

1. Unfinished business

2. A lot of the same faces return

3. Team leadership

4. The freshman class

5. Emerging (or returning) standouts

 

These are Wagner's talking points for the article. Most of them are self-explanatory. Some nuggets - We have much depth returning with Mancuso, Werth, Cook, Thramer, Broekhuis and Dykstra all starting many matches last year (if not every match), and we have some decent depth. Cook plans on rotating a lot of the players based on the back-to-back scheduling from the Big Ten season, which is why many of the Freshmen (if not all) won't redshirt.

 

Lots of Cook quotes in the article.

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Haggerty is gonna be a beast in the middle.

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Paige Hubl and Lauren Cook exchanging pics of each other as little kids in honor of national Best Friends Day: