 Pre-season is really interesting and valuable because as you said it's been two years so we're trying to get as many reps as we can without them getting injured so injuries play it's gonna play as played a role in our pre-season we did have two different scrimmages against ranked and teams getting votes for the top 25 and I think that our team proved that they were going to compete we're gonna have to play really well to compete and both times the kids seemed to take a step up from what they showed in practice so it was pleasantly surprised how much fire we played with so it's a matter of now the reps and the coordination of the team playing together playing Hopkins first to me they should be number one in the country there's the ranked sixth but they have gotten better they return both of their first team all Americans are a fifth-year graduate students and they've got another graduate student wasn't all-american as well so they are going to be a great test but it's the first match of the year so it's really gives us something to measure off of and with us playing York and Eastern our first two conference games we need to play tough some tough competitions therefore the tough preseason schedule tough and at Haverford all four of those teams are good they're not Hopkins but they're good and they're all gonna be competitive matches to try to get us battle tested before we play those big conference matches we even our juniors which course it's the same for every school they only have one year on the court if they started this freshman thankfully we do have a couple girls that did start some of the time as freshmen you know we're strong in middle you know Sarah Straub Hailey Hoover Darian Dilly are all have at least or two of my juniors Darian's a sophomore but they're strong and I think any one of them could step up and have really big matches for us we're still competing on the outsides to see who's going to start we do we don't have much experience out there setting Mackenzie Blevins is back but she didn't set her soft her freshman sophomore year and her junior year we didn't play so she's kind of new to that although she was recruited as a setter she played right side of first two years Olivia Simon Michaela Thompson are both competing we're not even sure what offense we're gonna run right now so that's what all this preseason was about and you know our goal is to be playing our best volleyball at tournament time that's the goal to do as well as we can in the conference get a good seed for the tournament and then win the tournament well offensively we're gonna have to take a lot of steps forward you know even though we did fairly well in the in the preseason scrimmages we hit for a very low percentage we're not putting the ball down the way we're gonna need to put the ball down we're working a lot on passing and serving I think that is the name of the game no matter what level I think all our games are gonna be close and and very competitive so our mental toughness and how we bounce back from a loss how we start stacking wins are gonna be super important as to how successful we are hope everybody comes out and finally come out and watch we're a mess but you don't have to be socially distanced and we can have as many people there as we wanted so we need lots of noise and I know there's a lot of volleyball fans out there hopefully you'll come and watch us