 Welcome back to the Kathy Rayleigh show presented by Buffalo Wild Wings. I'm Sam Murray joined now with Stevenson women's lacrosse head coach Kathy Rayleigh and coach Since the last time we talked teams five and one that won loss to fourth-ranked Mary Washington close game eight six loss here at home Before we dive into lacrosse. I'll say congratulation on your 200 career win that you got down. Thank you in Florida Your your team won six of the last seven. Yeah seem to be getting better every single day Talk about the progression of your team Well, you know, I think it's there's a couple things in play here number one I think that this is an extremely hard working group and I think we're in a great mental space right now to Work through any methods mistakes that we're having so every single game that we have we talk about what we could get better at and how we're gonna do that in the practices in between and It's seen every single time. They're getting better during practice And then we're showing that we're getting better during those games at whatever we've identified as the problem So that tells me we have a really smart team. They have a really good lacrosse IQ that just keeps getting better every single day You know, it's they're just not playing like a young group anymore. We're playing like a veteran group Which is just wonderful to see and that's due to their practice ethic Yeah, you've ten different goal scorers, you know people are different people are contributing defensively You know in the game where you score 21 goals against Elizabeth Town Carly Bose Your leading score doesn't even score a goal, but you're getting contribution from all across the board talk You know talk about the depth of your team right now Well, you know, we can go deeper than we have been able to go in the last couple years and comfortably so We're trying to get a lot of freshmen and maybe some sophomores that didn't play a lot last year as much time as we can We're trying to all different kinds of offense We're we're we're trying to identify where our skill set is with some of these younger players and developing plays that might benefit them Or take their their skills into play It's just it they want to be out there they want to have fun They're starting to do a little showing off, which is great and and creativity, which has just been so fun to watch You know, it's it's hard to scout a team that has ten different goal scorers It's really hard to say hey, you know, we're playing Stevenson next week. Let's shut down Carly Bose Well, then we're just gonna elevate a whole bunch of our other players. So You know, we like that we're gonna be difficult to scout down the road Not just offensively junior Mac Ferguson in case she has ten plus stays and four of her last right five games Talk about her play this year, you know her she's putting the work in this year Which is really starting to show and it makes me extremely happy Mac comes to individual sessions Several times a week now, which is something we weren't able to do with her She is very focused in practice. She is Becoming just an amazing communicator and leader of that defense back there So it's not only that she's making the stays we're doing a whole lot of talking in practice and with the defense about delivering shots Mac can handle and We're all on the same page with that if if Mac's gonna get a shot on her It's not gonna be between the pipes and it's not going to be something that she can't handle and because of that We've seen her save increase go up Because of her hard work, we've seen her save increase or say numbers go up And I really don't want to overlook the fact that that is an eight-player Contribution to that defensive end there are seven field players and Mac and they're all working in unison to showcase Mac's best skill I'm really proud of what she's what she's done I'm really proud of that defense set for protecting her in the way that they have the last four or five games Well that defense in your Mac Commonwealth opener against Lebanon Valley held held them to seven goals You've also let LVC the past two years you open the conference play with a win And now you're getting into the nitty-gritty of conference play What does your team have to do to continue this win streak? We have to continue to bring a lot of the younger players along The the last game or so I've not seen the I should say the last game because we had plenty of offensive output in Against Elizabeth Towne I would have liked to have seen more of an offensive output against Lebanon Valley and make that more of a comfortable win So we're gonna continue working on that We've got you know the beautiful day out there today even though spring refuses to come and it's 32 degrees or whatever it is out there today We're gonna get some hard work offensively in today To really try to you we have today tomorrow Thursday Friday input some new plays Continue with our lacrosse IQ of when we have the ball and how we move off of the people that we want Shooting or driving to the cage I'm excited about this week Well coach or she's the best the lock move forward and we'll see you back here in a few weeks Thank you very much for head coach Kathy Rayleigh. 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