 Welcome back to the Julia Colotta show presented by Buffalo Wildwings I'm Sam Murray joined now with Stevenson softball head coach Julia Colotta and coach From one year the next huge improvement finished at 17 and 17 Coming into the season you said your goal is to play 500 softball. You did that huge improvement. Just talk about the year Yeah, we we had a tough start and then through the mid to the end of the season We really picked up offensively. We had some really well-pitched games by Morgan And Haley M both in the circle that really kept us in a lot of games jazz Did a great job early on winning some for us, but our offense really came alive Power numbers wise stolen base wise and also some really great defense That really just rounded out to a really great season a little short for the conference we needed to take care of some more games instead of splits and Just a little bit not good enough to get into ECACs But overall a really great job and I'm very proud of all 18 of our young ladies that are on our team Yeah, coming into the season I think you were picked to finish last in the conference and you actually finished just one game out of the conference tournament Just two games out actually of third place in the conference So just talk about the conference the schedule and how close it was this year. Yeah, the conference was really kind of jammed up I think all the teams were kind of even With one strong pitcher maybe two if they were lucky and that's kind of what got them through the season I think that we matched up really well against a lot of opponents who weren't expecting our offensive numbers to be quite as strong So we might have snuck up on some people which was really great And we had a really nice senior class that performs with on the field and off the field Brooke Steinbeck at first did a really great job She snuck up on a lot of people in conference overall numbers pretty well But hit in the mid-fours in conference which garnered her our first team on conference spot Jazz hit really well this year for us Finney really held down third base with some great offensive numbers pop to home runs Ali did a really great job for us on the field and she was the scholar athlete for a senior class with I think a GPA of 3.94 something crazy and she got that honor at the banquet And so that class really just did a really great job overall Tiff also in right field had some great power numbers Believe she had eight home runs and really made a lot of big plays for us So overall we're gonna miss them a ton, but they did a really great job leading our team both physically and mentally Yeah, kind of turning the page onto next year not to to say goodbye to those seniors But turning the page here you bring a lot back next year Aaron Steffi at shortstop hit Unbelievable this year you talked about Morgan Fulton in the pitching circle also Haley Monahan So just talk about the how the goals might shift for next year. I know it's a little early No, it's it's never too early And I think that we're going through our end of the year meetings now And we're talking about the things we did well and need to improve upon and our freshman class and the current sophomore class They're gonna be really counted on to be leaders and mature a little bit quickly They brought a lot to the table Caleb Riles and center with Oliver stolen bases Alex behind the plate as well as Some other performers that got some time as sophomores Haley Lennon in the left As well as Daniel ebacals and who played second who actually will graduate early So we have a lot of to look forward to but at the same time we have a lot to build on Aaron had a fabulous year and we can only expect the same if not more from her next year Well coach, thank you for coming up here weekend and week out and wish you the best of luck this summer Recruiting and see you back here next year. Thanks for coach Julia. Kalata I'm Sam Murray and this has been the Julia Kalata show