 Hello and welcome to the Dave Trumbo coaches show. I'm Greg Royce joined now with Dave Trumbo head coach of the women's volleyball team And coach you open up your season last week at Salisbury at the Segal Limitational And you're able to go 4-0 talk a little bit about first just a little overview of the tournament. How you guys played? Well, I thought our preseason went really really well, Greg We put we got a lot of opportunities to play a Lot of combinations the rules have changed a little bit. So we had one more scrimmage this year Which was which was fantastic and to hang up, you know, four wins that first weekend We certainly it's nice to have we didn't plan that on that happening because we there's some great quality teams especially Swarthmore and Salisbury that we played on Saturday back-to-back with about a 45 minute break So we were very happy and we just felt like the longer the girls play together the better they got Talk a little bit obviously on Friday. He played Madai and Geneva. Not Saturday. He played Swarthmore in Salisbury Friday night, you got a chance to have everybody play I think everybody but one person played on Friday What does it mean to give everybody no game early and to get everybody some game experience? Well, I thought it was great, you know at any time I can get that I'll you know, I'll take it and Madai was a great opportunity to do that Everybody got some game time a lot of freshmen got their first kills their first blocks You know their first assists, you know, but what have you and so that was a great opportunity and followed up Geneva was a little bit better Then Madai we didn't play particularly well, but I thought the third set We did start to gain a little traction a little momentum going into Swarthmore Who was getting more votes for the top 25 than we were and they returned their whole team back They went to China for an international trip. So they've been playing for quite a while So we thought that was going to be a real challenge and you know that first set against Swarthmore We were winning 17 to 6 and I wind up winning in 30 28 how we lost that one set It could have been a completely different look 17-6 you better win and had we not won that first set it would have been devastating So we were able to then Really compete well with Swarthmore and then going into Salisbury and that's always a huge rivalry for us the two SUs Yeah Yeah, obviously rivalry going back to the capital athletic conference days and you know 3-1 win and you know capped off of 4-0 weekend with that win over the Seagulls Yeah, and you know to my recollection that's the first time we've been able to beat Salisbury on their home floor We've beaten them in the NCAA before we've beaten them at a tournament But we had actually lost two in a row. They had beaten us in tournaments the last two years Two years ago. We played them twice and packed the back weekends and one time we won one time We lost so that's a really competitive program and that's what we want to do the first weekend We want to play the top teams and Salisbury was a very formidable opponent, but we served the ball extremely well And I believe that three of our girls were in double-digit kills. So the skills were spread out Yeah, that's one of the things I noticed look at the box scores this weekend. She had a lot of balance You know not just you know the usual suspect stepping up, but obviously Lauren Weaver had a couple great matches Just talk about you know to have that balance what it means, you know, especially early on Well, the first off the confidence factor I mean Katie Leveridge who was really playing her first time She's a sophomore played some last year, but not a lot So she was and she was playing six rotations and she had a great weekend and passed the ball very well And then the fact that if one of our players does not have a good day The other people can pick up the slack. So with Mariah and Lauren and Anika, you know, they were both in double-digit kills and they can't sit on any one person You know and actually it was Deanna Bradbury and Anika were who were all tournament Deanna just passed the ball phenomenally and you know and Doug and just set up everything for us All right, obviously faced some tough competition last weekend tomorrow night. You get right back at it Matt Commonwealth Conference opener against an old friend Messiah Talk a little about that match rematch of the last five Commonwealth Conference championship matches. That's tomorrow night Well Messiah is always a challenge and This year is no different Having to play them very first conference match. It can be a really good thing It can be a bad thing if we can if we can get a W it kind of sets up the rest But if we can't then we're gonna have to make up some time Getting them on our home court. I think that's a pass. That's a plus for us But I have a lot of respect for the Messiah coach and I know it's gonna be a great match Then this weekend you have to Muhlenberg play some more quality competition up there Just a little preview. What can you expect this weekend up there? Well, again, we all our matches are back to back So we go up there when we play Sunni Cortland at five and we turn around and play the host Muhlenberg at seven And they're probably the two of the strongest teams that are there We get Newman and Virginia Wesleyan who were both good Are very good teams. So again good competition and it's a chance for us to grow as a team And to be consistent in putting wins together Great coach. Well, thanks a lot for your time. We'll see you Wednesday night right here Owens Mills gymnasium We hope we see everybody come out. Let's have a great atmosphere for Dave Trumbo. I'm Greg Royce This has been the Dave Trumbo show