 Hello and welcome to the John Stollträger show. I'm Joe Wamba joined with head swimming coach, John Stollträger. And coach, you guys headed out to Weidner over the weekend and competed with men and women there. Men's, our numbers are low, just in the roster size. But the women had a pretty solid performance with seven qualifiers for the Mac championship barrette. Yeah, we swam pretty well. Again, we're still only three weeks into the season, so we haven't had enough time to train to do what we really want to do. But we have more qualifiers already this year on the women's side than we did all of last year. And on the men's side, we have as many as we did last year. So it was a successful meet. And the opportunity to have the other two male swimmers qualify and all the rest of the women's qualify is pretty high. The team is young, a lot of youth in the pool. Yeah, we have more freshman and sophomores than we do anything else. And I fully anticipate the men having all five qualify. And on the women, I would anticipate having at least five, maybe six more girls qualify, which will double, over double our size from last year. And this meet that you went up to Weidner for, school record artery goes down in the first event with a lot of youth again in the pool on the women's 200 free relay. Yeah, we broke a school record, which is pretty significant considering that school record is done when you're shaved and tapered at the end of the year. So to say that we have more depth and talent when our very first meet, we break a school record is pretty important and significant. A lot of optimism coming out of the meet. The points aren't going to be there because our rosters are small. But the improvement from what you were doing in preseason and whether you had going last season to this season in the very first meet has got to lead to a lot of optimism going in the future. Yeah, I think the kids even realize that we're bigger, we're better, we're faster. And if you look at our time from last year to this year, almost every event we're faster than we were last year, either with the returners that we have or with the freshmen and transfers that we brought in. And a lot of youth, like I say, I keep on saying it, youth is important. It's a second year program, third year program. And having a lot of qualifiers already is important. Right? Yeah, we have, again, it's only our second recruiting class. We have more freshmen and sophomores, again, by far. We only have three seniors on the girls' side, no juniors on the girls' side, and one junior on the boys' side, and the rest are freshmen or sophomores. So having them learn to swim the way I want them to swim, it's important to give them time to do that. And I think having freshmen coming in or even transfer sophomores gives them time to figure out how to swim the races the right way and how to improve. And that's the big thing with swimming is not always your wins and losses, but your improvement in the pool. And this week you guys have off over the weekend a lot of opportunity to continue that improvement while you guys are practicing over the break or the weekend off. Right, well, yeah, there's no question that the next meet we swim, you should see market improvement with a lot of kids, because two weeks in the water is a ton of time, and it's just two weeks to get it aerobically stronger and be able to finish your races better than they did at Leiden with only three weeks of practice. So yeah, I would fully anticipate a couple school records and probably break another the 200 free relay record again. Well, coach, good luck in breaking those records, and we're looking forward to that anticipation and hopefully seeing some records get broken. All right, thank you very much. He's John Stoltzrager. I'm Joe Wamba, and this has been the John Stoltzrager Coach's Show.