 Hello, I'm Greg Royce and welcome to the Dave Redan coaches show I'm here with Stevenson cross-country head coach Dave Redan and coach you open up the season last week with the Mustang stampede Talk a little bit about how that went for both teams Really I'm happy with the way it went. It was definitely one of those kind of Beginning of the season just let's see where everyone's at. We didn't really run it completely all out But I was definitely happy with the performances. Some people really stepped up and surprised me as well On the men's side obviously Langston had a family movement so he couldn't be there So obviously some other people stepped up talk about like Patrick Watson and a couple of the other guys that stepped up on Friday Yeah, so Patrick had a really good summer and really good preseason So I've been expecting him to kind of step up and he really did step up well with with Langston not being there He mixed it up with those top hops and Hopkins guys for a while and Yeah, I mean just overall everybody ran really well They were definitely tired. We did a hard workout at 6 a.m. That morning. Yeah, so it was it was a good day Yeah, it's like a little women's side You said you're probably made it a little bit surprised with how far some of the progress that you made on that side Yeah, definitely So I was expecting Kelly to be up there And I mean she she went out a little bit harder than we wanted to but she hung on and had a really good race I mean she ran I think over 30 seconds faster than she did last year So that's that's a good sign and then just some of the freshmen just really stepped up I mean Emily Gates Allie Cray really came out of nowhere She didn't even think she really wanted to do cross-country because she was a track runner and then Chloe O'Hara was another freshman It really stepped up. Yeah What does it mean to have a program like Hopkins who's you know obviously a national championship contender and both the men's and women's side To come to you know to come to your home course and to have your athletes have a chance to run against a program like that Yeah, no, I think it's really good And I think the best part is I mean they see my athletes see how deep that team is and how committed that team is The women have from Hopkins have won the national title four out of the past five years And the men have a really good shot at winning this year So for our guys to go out and mix it up with them and the women as well I think it really means a lot to them. Yeah now looking ahead to this week I'm your home again this week Friday night on Greenspring the Shannon Henry any rotational Talk a little about Shannon and the scholarship fund and you know what you hope to accomplish issue with that. Yeah, so Shannon was a Stevenson alumni she ran cross-country here at Stevenson and then she also was a volunteer coach for us and in the fall of 2014 and Unfortunately Shannon passed away due to complications with pneumonia in December of that year So the nursing department established a scholarship for students that best kind of resemble Shannon Yeah, and we've been working with them and helping out as much as we can trying to get that scholarship endowed And they're very close. I think they're only a few thousand dollars away so we give the entry fees from the race to the scholarship fund and For those of you out there that didn't know Shannon. I mean just such a wonderful person. I Mean you meet her once and you would always remember her. I mean she just was one of the most friendly Non-selfish people that that you would ever meet. Yeah Talk a little about the you know the meet itself and obviously you have you know several teams coming and talk about the field for this Meet yeah, so it it's probably gonna be a similar size to the first meet It's just we have more teams, but a lot of teams don't have really big rosters As far as competition-wise messiah is actually coming down for it and they're in the conference So that'll give us kind of a gauge as to see how we line up against them Yeah, but again, I mean being only the second meeting of the season, right cross-country is unique I mean we kind of work into it. So the first meet we thought they'll race maybe the second half of it This this me coming up on Friday. They'll race maybe the last three quarters of it and the next week It's really the first time I kind of let them go all out Yeah, so that's that five o'clock for the women and six o'clock for the men and then they'll have the walk right after that Yep. All right, so we hope to see everyone in green stream tomorrow for dayward and I'm Greg Royce This has been the dayward and show