 Hello and welcome to the Dave Trumbo show. I'm Joe Wombo, joined now with Dave Trumbo, head coach of the Beach Volleyball team. And coach, you guys have had this state circled on your calendar for a while. And go down there and you perform well at the Fiesta on Siesta Key, the small colleges, national championship. Yeah, you're right, Joe. That's kind of a something that you target when we were playing the D1s at UNC Wilmington. No, we were going to play the D2s the following weekend. And they set it up with, there were 10 teams. 72s and 3D3s, and they set it up in two pools of five. And if you came, if you were one of the top five teams when, you know, with your record and everything, when you, after you played everybody in your pool, then you got to the gold bracket, which we did. That was our goal to get in the gold bracket, which gave us a chance to win the national championship. Now we happened to be the fourth seed. And because there were five teams, the fourth and fifth seed had a play in two semifinals. And unfortunately, we did not win. That match came down, our threes did win, but we didn't win anywhere else. Unfortunately, we lost that one four to one. And against a team that we beat earlier in the season, but played terrific against us that particular day. Yeah, sometimes you have it, sometimes you don't. And, you know, you guys played three matches the day before in some Florida weather and not making excuses for you, but it's a factor. It is a factor because a lot of those teams are from Florida in our pool that we played a team from California, from San Diego, but there was also a couple of Florida teams in there. So great experience. We end up, overall, we were three and two. Grace Coleman and Jan Christensen were a four and one. They were actually graded, you know, as far as record for our pairs was the best over the weekend. So then we're gonna get a host. Yeah, you guys definitely will get a host, but still talking about this fiesta. You know, you guys go to Florida quite often. You travel south, but you're playing a bunch of different schools. How fun is it to be able to play schools from Texas and California and then Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, all those places? It is really neat. The team from San Diego happened to have their tent was next door to ours. We started talking. That's cool. You know, I went over and introduced myself and we became friends. Yeah. That easy. We're more laid back with the beach. So it is really cool to be playing teams from all over the country. And you did mention it. You guys will be hosting next weekend. You're gonna be bringing in Towson and Morgan State and Principia. How excited are you guys to be hosting and being able to have a crowd, your own crowd, at your courts? Well, I think it's a chance for all the, first off, the parents of all the players got a chance to come, number one. And two, the president's gonna sponsor. I'm now hearing Sunday. I thought it was Saturday, but now I'm hearing Sunday. Good, because I'll be there Sunday. The Villa Fest is on Sunday. So they're building a whole weekend extravaganza around the beach courts, which is fantastic. And we play at 10.30 and we play at three. The host school usually plays first and last. So the other teams aren't sitting around all day waiting to play. So I know the players are very excited getting a chance to play on their home courts, and not have to travel and not sleep in your bed. Buck Showwater always talking about not sleeping in your own bed, and it makes a difference to be able to stay home and be able to practice and play on our home courts. And have your friends and family there, like you mentioned, and a broadcast of the events as well is gonna be kind of cool. Yes, my parents will look forward to that. Oh, good. The pressure isn't on at all, you know. Well, Coach, we appreciate your time this week, and we look forward to talking to you next week and previewing a little bit more about that home match. All right, thanks, Joe. He's Dave Trumbo, I'm Joe Wamba, and this has been the Dave Trumbo Show.