 Hello, welcome to the John Stiltrigger show presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm Greg Royce and joined here by Stevenson's swimming head coach, John Stiltrigger. Coach had your first home meet of the season this past Saturday against Frostburg, Goucher and Hood. Women, several strong individual performances and to be Hood, just take us through that, you know, through Saturday. Yeah, Saturday was a good meet. Again, the kids are working really hard and we're a little different than some other sports where we don't kind of rest for our, you know, meets. We kind of swim through them, swim really hard. We had an extremely difficult practice on Friday and, you know, I asked the kids, you know, to get up and swim on Saturday and swim fast and, you know, we had some really good swims on Saturday and, you know, I was pretty impressed by them. Yeah, you know, a couple of end wins. Like you said, you kind of swim, you almost go harder the day before rather than if you look at a lot of team sports, they usually tend to ease up the day before a game. Yeah, we definitely, I work hard on Friday before the game, for the meet and, you know, what I try to do is teach them how to swim fast when they're tired because when you swim fast when you're tired, when you're tired, you know, when we taper and we rest, then good things happen and it's a process and they have to learn how to do it and it's a culture that we've actually built through the last couple of years and they've really bought into it and not to say that they embrace it because it's not a pleasant thing to do, but you know, they're really doing well and we are swimming faster this year than we were last year, which is, you know, one of your goals is to swim faster and they're setting the bar pretty high. Yeah, so things we talked about before we went on air is, you know, at this point this year you're swimming faster than last year and obviously that's the ultimate goal is you kind of shoot towards the end of the season. Who are a couple of people that really kind of stood out on Saturday for you guys? I would say Jules Burnett, Swam, I would say a lifetime best in season in their 100 breast. Cole, we swam extremely well in our 100 back. One-on-one, which is probably the fastest time in the conference. You know, Izzy, Swam, terrific in our 100 fly. And even Zack, you know, swam extremely well and is too free. Yeah, I know, I said on the other side that Zack had a couple, you know, top three finishes and, you know, I know he's kind of out there by himself, but he's, you know, he's swimming hard and keeps working hard and performing. Yeah, you know, and we have some lofty goals for him. Again, the men are a bit small this year but, you know, for his conference, I mean, he's looking to do some big things and maybe even win a conference event this year and he's working hard to do it and, you know, again, he's putting forth the work and he's leading by example. Overall, you're happy with where you are at this point in season? I'm really happy. You know, every year I've tried to build on what we do and, you know, this is no different than last year. I'm kind of putting pieces together and I'm working harder than I did last year and I expect more out of them than I did last year. And, you know, to their credit, they're giving it to me and they're working really hard. They believe in what we do, which, you know, is a big part of the whole process and, you know, they think that they can do well and that's, again, another big part of the process. So, yeah, I'm extremely happy with where we are. And you guys grew up to Wilkes this week for doing me against them. You know, just kind of the same thing, just try to get better. Yeah, I mean, every week what you try to do is teach them a little something from meet to meet. You know, again, it's not the wins and losses that really matter to me. It's more how do you swim each race and how do you perform each week. And, again, it'll be a difficult week already this week and it's a three-hour bus ride up to Wilkes and we're going to get off the bus. We're going to warm up and we will swim hard. That much I can guarantee you. Well, Coach, best of luck on Saturday. We'll talk to you next week. For John Stiltsrager, I'm Greg Royce. Thank you for your attention.