 Hello, and welcome to the Dave Tremble show presented by Buffalo Law Wings. I'm Greg Royce, shown by Stevenson Woman's volleyball head coach Dave Tremble. And coach, obviously, a very exciting weekend last weekend. You had the opportunity to host the NCAA regional. First, let's just talk about, before we get into the matches themselves, just the experience of the kids we were going to play on their home court in the NCAAs and everything that went into it and just the whole weekend. Well, our athletic department just did a phenomenal job. And the goal of Brett Adams and our staff was to make this a special experience for the student-athletes that played and for the parents that attended. And absolutely it was. Everything was just taken up a notch from anything that you see during the season. And the compliments from coaches and parents and players validated what we were trying to do. And so I was just really honored to actually be a part of this university and with the job that they did over the weekend. Yeah, certainly, like I said, just first-class event from start to finish. You open up Friday night, you play Hunter in front of a big crowd. And that match kind of, you can kind of tell quickly that you were maybe a little different talent level than they were and kind of got out to a fast start and didn't look back. And some of that was one of the things I said to Mariah Savage, Lauren Jan and Chelsea Arland at practice on Saturday in front of the whole team. They're all juniors. I said, how many NCAA matches have you won? And they had to think for a second. They said, none. I said, exactly. That is how difficult it is to win an NCAA match. Of course, the last two years we've been put out first round. And try to set the stage for not looking past Hunter, which I don't think we did. And sometimes when a team played extremely well, which we did, we made Hunter not look as good as they were. They were 27 and 4 coming in. Absolutely. And so they were a good team. But they were in our court. We had a huge crowd. They probably never played in front of a crowd like that this year and they were loud. And all those things worked together for us to put together a really great match. How important, like you said, to get that first win after the last couple of years going out in the first round? Well, to me, it would have been embarrassing to host and lose in the first round, to tell you the truth. So I thought it had to happen. And of course, for us to move on, it had to happen. So the girls came ready to play that night and play with a lot of confidence. And so our goal, of course, was to go to the final eight and you've got to win the first one. Yeah, absolutely. Then the next night you got Johns Hopkins back on your home floor. You know, a team you'd be early in the season. Unfortunately Saturday night, a little bit different of a match. And Hopkins was able to prevail. I'll take us a little bit through that one. Well, that was tough. And Hopkins played much better. First time they played us in a 6-2. This time it was a 5-1. The matchups were a little bit different in the front row. And to tell you the truth, we had not lost to them since 2012. And they're an excellent program. They ranked number 12 in the country. So kind of the odds just ran out against us. But they beat us. There's no question. And people kept saying, well, they're serves. They missed 16 and 17 serves. And myself, I was thinking, well, if they missed that many serves, how are they going to beat us? Well, they beat us because they passed. Our passing was not terrible. It was just OK. It was against their tough serving. But they passed us. We didn't have an ace. I'll tell you a little bit about how much they were in system and took advantage of that. And their offense is very fast. And if we have single blocking across the front, it's tough to stop them. And that's kind of what happened. They passed fantastic. And they get a lot of credit for beating us on our home court. Yeah, absolutely. Like you said a little bit. And unfortunately, you have an injury that they lost someone that they didn't have in the regional final on Sunday. And just talking a little bit about the regional final, great five-set match that Swarthmore ultimately advanced in. Yeah, well, when Sasha went down, one of their middles went down, just really unfortunate. It was the end of the third set. We were reeling, but excuse me, end of the second set. And we were reeling. And they made them rework their whole lineup. They went back to a 6-2 for a little bit. And that did not work. And we easily won that third set. But they were able to regroup. And it was 10-9 there in the fourth. And they were able to put a nice run together and win it. On Sunday against Swarthmore, it was the same kind of thing. Hopkins had beaten Swarthmore three times in a row. And they beat them twice during the season. And you know that old sports adage, it's tough to beat a good team three times. And that kind of worked against Hopkins. Fantastic match. Swarthmore deserved it. I did not think they had enough firepower to beat Hopkins. Hopkins was a little bit more tentative with their serving. They only had four aces this time. Last time they played SWAT, they had 12. So they passed a little bit better than Hopkins's used to. Swarthmore was in system. And their hitters did a great job. And they played with so much grit and tenacity and phenomenal defense to be able to beat Hopkins and move on to the final eight. And certainly as a fan on Sunday, without a dog in the fight, it was a phenomenal match. It was. I'm a volleyball fan. It wasn't that much fun that we weren't in it. But I really wanted to go and be part of the hosting team after everyone had done so much for us. And we saw a great match on Sunday. And then this morning, got some more good news. Annika Schwartz named first team All-American the first time you ever had that happen. And then Deanna Bradbury, Mariah Savage, Kate Lettridge, all-named honorable mention. Obviously, Annika, first time All-American, first team All-American you've ever had, obviously caps off a great career for her. I couldn't be happier. I couldn't be happier for Annika. She's put in a lot of time and hard work, and she's a nursing student. So that makes it, to me, a lot harder and a lot more stressful. Here's a kid that's every other Sunday night is working overnight. Yeah. That's our one-to-you-sleep. You know, before she goes to class on Monday, she said her classes started late on Monday. So it is stressful. That's life. You know, working these things out and being able to do all the things that you want to do. So it's a great cap to her career and for her to be first team and for the other three. Deanna, that's the second team she's been honorable mention. Mariah, the second team. And Katie, the first time she's been honorable mention All-American. So two of them are coming back. So I'm excited about that. Yeah, absolutely. Coaches, last time we'll have you this season. Just what do you take away from the season most of all? You know, the 33 wins, being able to host. What do you take away the most? Well, you know, looking back, you know, as a coach, you're thinking should we have lost once or twice more to kind of point out those weaknesses. But had we lost once or twice more, we would not have been hosting. So our goal was to go to the NCAA tournament at the beginning of the year and be a high seed, which we did. And we took advantage of that. But then even if you're a high seed, you're going to get a tough second rounder. So I'm very, really disappointed that we didn't go farther. But how couldn't I be just absolutely ecstatic about our season? You know, 33 and 2, you know, what more can I ask for? I always sit down before the season and I write down worst possible scenario. To me, that was 17 and 13. If we do about like I thought 21 and 10, ecstatic would have been fantastic. I had 24 and 6. So 33 and 2. And exceeded, way far exceeded my expectations. So I've got to be very happy. Absolutely. Well, Coach, we thank you for your time this season. We'll rejoin you in the spring for the beach volleyball season. It's beach season now. Absolutely. Doesn't feel like it outside right now. No. But again, thanks for all your time this season. And you know, we'll catch up with you in the spring. I'll look forward to it, Craig. All right. For Dave Trumbo, I'm Greg Royce. This has been the Dave Trumbo Show.