 Hello and welcome to the David and show presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm Greg Royce joined by Stevenson head and cross-country coach David And coach since we've chatted you guys have had a couple of pretty big meets First the meet of Salisbury at the end of September you guys did pretty well Just kind of talk about how everything went when your trip leaves from short. Yeah So I mean that meet went really well on both sides We knew it was a really fast course Yeah, and it was the first time that I really told everyone that they could really run hard from From the beginning and it went really well I mean Langston won his third meet of the year and the men's team came out with the the team win And the woman ran really well Kelly Winklebauer ran her first race, which was really promising for the woman And Mikaela Sabo the freshman she continues to kind of impress. Yeah Yeah, she's certainly very impressive on her first season of cross-country at any level. Yeah. Yep So yes, she never ran cross-country before so it's exciting I mean every every race is a learning experience for her and she's learning a lot every time she's out there Yeah Then the following week the women had the opportunity to go down to orlando to go to run the disney race and Said the weather was a little a little different than what you've experienced up here A little hot little humid even at first thing in the morning But overall it sounded like you're pretty pleased with how that meet went as well Yeah, they finished seventh out of 21 schools I believe and they were everybody ahead of them was I think deep division two or division one So it was it was a good showing and again Mikaela ran well and Kelly got to run a little bit harder And we just have a really solid Top five on the women's side. Yeah, and I mean it was it was a great experience for them really really great kind of team bonding They got to go to magic kingdom on sunday and got to really enjoy the experience Yeah, get to enjoy some time together outside of outside of practice and outside of competition. Exactly. They had a lot of fun Yeah And certainly then that last week the men went up to row in big Interregional battle. We finished ninth Just talk about kind of, you know, what your expectations were and kind of how you finished That day. Yeah, so that was on the men's side one of the bigger meets of the year for them There were I think six or seven nationally ranked teams in that race And it was a big opportunity for them to go and kind of beat some of those teams And help maybe later with a possible at large bid to nationals I mean, we didn't finish as high up as we would have liked, but I still think it was a really good kind of overall race Yeah It was Really muddy. Yeah, I mean they had to stutter step around turn so they didn't fall So the more impressive part out of all that is that I mean Langston was pretty much in the lead At three miles and he's up there with a couple of national National champions or potential national champions. So I think it bodes really well For him and the team later later in the season Yeah, it certainly gives both Langston and the team kind of a chance to gauge where they are as we head into, you know The biggest meets of the year. Absolutely. Yeah So Coming up Obviously the conference championship kind of what you've been working for, you know since middle of august Get to run in your home course. I'm sure the kids are excited about that and Just talking about the opportunity to host that and the opportunity to run our course Obviously, you guys know very well Yeah, so I mean it's just it's really excited just to be able to host it at home But the other exciting part is my first recruiting class are seniors this year So to kind of end their collegiate career on their home course with the possibility of winning It's really really exciting. So, I mean again, I think I've said this before ever since last year when they got second place by 10 points Like that day they've been talking about Winning the following year. So, um, it's definitely been on their mind and again I mean they have to do everything to to get to that point. Right. Um, I mean, I feel like everything's been going well Um, they're all they're all all in. I mean sleep diet training, I mean, they've all kind of Got together and created their own little pact about what they're going to do to run well later. So yeah, absolutely certainly exciting You know, certainly if every man has a chance to come out on that saturday, october 27th Women's race 11 men's race at 12, right? Yep. And the women too. I mean, I I really think they're going to surprise some people Because um, we've had some people really step up in practice. Um, Emily Gates has been looking really good as well So between emily kelly Um, mackayla and then a chull and cj. We have a really really solid top five Yeah, certainly got a solid core there then, um, you know, if they go out and run the race You know, they can they can certainly finish, you know up towards the top. Definitely All right, coach. We'll wish you the best of luck. Um, next week at the conference meet and um, Sure, we'll try chat at least a little bit after that and um, You know best of luck and then best luck in the regional. Thank you. All right for day brunand. I'm greg rois This has been the day brunand show