Quotes on Katie

"Katie and I are best friends. We keep in touch all the time!"
~Mary Beth Arnold, National Team Member

"Katie has the ability to focus under pressure. Her strength is her competitivness"
~John Geddert, Katie's gymnastics coach

"Katie doesn't have a lot of inhibitions. She can not know you and come right up and start talking to you. She just seems to be really kind to everybody"
~Joyce Teft, Katie's mother

"Everybody gets hurt. And these latest injuries haven't been because my body couldn't take it. They've just been from back luck."
~Katie Teft on her long string of injuries

"Tim and Kate are pretty close. Kate feels real comfortable hanging out with the boys when they come over"
~Joyce Teft on Katie's relationship with her brother

"I just feel some clubs have more pull than others, and I"m not selfish enough to hole that kid back just because of my ego."
~John Geddert on the possibility of sending Katie elsewhere to train

"I like it here. They make things fun. If I had to leave, I would quit gymnastics"
~Katie Teft on the possibility of training in a different place

"Our goal to this point has been to make the team, but I think it needs to bew higher than that. We train hard and work long hours, but we haven't been expecting enough of her. I'm a firm believer that kids work to the level that's expected of them."
~John Geddert on the standards he sets for Katie