 Welcome to the John Stoltrager show. I'm Joe Wamba joined with John Stoltrager head coach of the men's and women's swimming programs And coach you guys travel up to a conference opponent and pretty good rival We've got going with Messiah. You guys swim really well in that race. Yeah, we swam so I'm really really well again coming off of the The training that we're doing the volume that we're doing the intensity You never really know how the meets gonna actually come out and and I have to say that the kids swam Amazingly well, I mean for as tired as they are to come out and very first event break our team record in the 200 medley relay by over two seconds and beat Messiah on top of it You know it was a great way to start the meet And it's a little bit of a precursor for the Mack meet that you guys got coming up in February How these meets that you have with conference opponents are just the opportunity for you to size up the competition Sure, it's it's a great way to swim against really good kids Know where you're gonna be at it at the conference meet and again I mean the big thing is to swim fast and and to you always want to race You know no matter what the outcome is of the meet You always want to push yourself and challenge yourself especially, you know this time of year where you're tired And and again you're teaching your body how to swim fast when it's tired and in those tired moments So you still get lifetime best Swims in times. Yeah, we had actually a couple lifetime best Steven Kratzer did a lifetime best in his hundred fly We had Adriana Komosa. She did a lifetime best under a hundred breaststroke We had a team record in the hundred fly. Although it wasn't a lifetime best. It was still a great swim by Izzy Ramslin I mean across the board. We just had we had really good swims I was you know, I was hopeful that we do well But I I couldn't even expect to for us to swim as well as we did and all after being tired and going through that crazy training regimen that you had in the Winter break. Yeah, I mean the kids are swimming between four and five hours a day every day and lifting on top of it and You know again for them to push themselves and to swim as well as they did I think they're setting themselves up for a phenomenal conference championship Well, it's awfully exciting to see these records keep going down and lifetime best to keep on improving Yeah, I mean it gives the kids motivation You know, we have one more week of doubles and then we start our shaving or a rest for our shaving taper meets So again, it gives them some some motivation to to keep working One more week of doubles and then it's time to rest And you guys after the winter break training regimen that you had you play you compete against messiah this week It'll be a different type of regimen before you had to guide that. Yeah, it's you know Again, we'll we'll keep the pedal to the metal. We'll swim galley debt this weekend We'll get to swim 200 to stroke which we haven't done yet this semester So I'm fully expecting some some really good swims from them in those events and you know Again, just see if we can break a couple more records and and do a couple more lifetime best Well, coach, we wish you the best of luck down a guy that great. Thanks. He's john stoltz trigger I'm jo wamba and this has been the john stoltz trigger show