 Welcome to the Eric Camadeca show. I'm Joe Lambo joined now with Eric Camadeca head coach of the track and field teams We'll talk about both indoor and outdoor but first let's talk about the indoor going out to the NCAA competition and Having a fourth place finish out of Devonte. Yeah, it was exciting You know, this is the furthest he's ever finished finishing fourth overall Coming out of the trials and a nice thing too was having two other women join him This is the first time in program history I had two women go out there to sneak in a shot put in Sierra in the long jump both of them were freshmen It's awfully exciting having that that type of performance all season long just to get there. Yeah, you know, it's tough It's a grueling season. It's indoor indoors not as fun as the outdoor season So for them to hang on and still be one of the top 15 or 17 in the country to get out there Have the opportunity to be in that environment was really exciting for everyone You talk about the outdoor season being more fun Probably isn't that much more fun right now now being so cold now The weather's off throwing a little wrench in our plans, you know We're on spring break last week last week and we have about eight inches of snow out there So that definitely puts it down on our spring break But you know, we did have a really good week of training transitioning the outdoor season and this this morning was our first practice Since we got back from spring break and everything has been going well to this point and this weekend will be your first competition Outdoors, you're gonna be probably leaning on some of the same athletes, but also get a whole batch of different athletes Yeah, it's nice that we have the entire team competing again You know, we haven't really seen the entire team in action since conference championships So getting everyone back going out there, you know, we're gonna use this weekend as a training week We're gonna load them up on a couple of different events You're gonna see athletes doing maybe three four even five events again Just a training week see where we're at what we need to work on You know some of the events do change adding the hammer throw the javelin discus You know the 60 bumps up to the hundred, so it's gonna be exciting time to see what we can do as you look at the roster Besides Devonte Sierra and Danica what athletes are you looking at to have a big outdoor season? I should know our relay teams and our strength and our sprints are really gonna show having that four by one team We're hoping to be one of the top teams in the country There will be Matt Riggins Tyler Bailey Aaron Holiday even Morgan Cheetham and Malcolm Hayward Our guys would be looking out for that four by one and even going into some individual events for them in the hundred and two hundred On the woman's side, you know, we're gonna see hopefully Kimberly Hammond hit her stride Deon Hicks really was coming in her own at the end of the indoor season I think there's gonna be a couple more out there, you know, it's just we have a very deep team this year a lot of talent You know Adam DiBugatti unfortunately got hurt at conferences And so he wasn't able to see what he could do at the at the ECA season So hopefully, you know, he'll turn around have a good outdoor season and how about that the distance team? There's still long distances. Yeah, so we're hopefully everything's working well for Kelly Winklebauer She and ended up actually taking the indoor season off the kind of nursing injury from cross country So we're really excited to see what she's gonna be able to do this year Idris Idris is gonna be in the 800 You know, maybe even put him into 15 and then obviously Langston's gonna have a nice it outdoor season So we're really looking forward to see what he can do as well. Well, coach We appreciate your time this week and good luck out outside this weekend and Congratulations on a very strong winter indoor schedule. Thank you. He's Eric Camadeca. I'm Joe Wama. This has been the Eric Camadeca show