 Greg Royce, I'm joined here on the coach's corner with Stevenson, women's volleyball, and beach volleyball head coach Dave Trumbo. Coach, last week, you went two and one last week, started off with a three-one loss to a pretty good Marymount team. Talk a little bit about that match and how that went. Well, that was a little distressing. And we were coming off a rough weekend, we wanted to write ourselves, and I gotta give a lot of credit to Marymount. They came in here and that's the best Marymount team I've seen in a long time. And they just outpassed us and out-served us. They made some mistakes. We made some mistakes, but in the end, they passed us extremely well. We not served tough enough and we've beaten them five or six years in a row, but they were very competitive and that was a huge, huge win for them. And that was pretty crushing. And we had to rethink some things and get ourselves set to move on for the conference matches on the weekend. Yeah, I know we've talked a little bit about just the success your programs had over the last decade or so. With that loss to Marymount, it puts you at five losses in a row, which you said you've never done except for maybe one year. How do you get the kids to kind of bounce back from that, kind of regain that confidence? Well, we had the saying about smooth wooders does not make for a good sailor. And so if you don't have any strife or any things that are happening to your team, that's gonna cause you to search and really think. And sometimes things like this make you better in the end and that's what we're heading for. We're not, you know, Marymount's not better than us. We know that. We didn't play well enough to win. They were on that night. So we really just forgot all that and said, let's move forward. In reality, the conference matches is what matters most. And that's what we have to focus on. We're not building a very good resume for our seed in the NCAA tournament if we get that bid, but I do believe we've got some really nice tough get matches left. We've got number 10 Eastern coming up on Saturday. We've got Stockton who got to the sweet 16 last year and we've got Hopkins that looks like they could win the Centennial. They look very strong this year. So we've got some great matches left to build our resume and we've got some conference matches coming up that we're really looking forward to. Yeah, talk about conference play. Obviously Saturday you had a couple of conference wins against Hood and like homing. Just talk about those and bouncing back and getting back in the win column. Well, Hood is always one of those teams that we seem to not do well against. We kind of played down to them. We did not do that Saturday. There was a sense of urgency. The leadership on our team, they didn't care who was on the other side of the net, they were gonna play. And it seemed like against Hood didn't matter who I put on the court. They responded. I mean, Anika hit over 800. She only took 11 swings and 10 of them went down. So we were pretty fired up on Saturday for a game against Hood that typically is not one of our strongest opponents. But we took them very seriously on Saturday. You touched a little bit, but looking ahead to this week, pretty tough week. You open up tomorrow night with a conference match against Arcadia. Then you have Gali Den on Thursday, who's been the NCAAs. And then Saturday you have the Matt Crossover and you have number 10 Eastern as well as the sales here. And so another one of those tough weeks that we've talked about and just talked about getting prepared for that. Well, after that hood match on Saturday, then we played a lot combing. And a lot combing is typically pretty strong. They're usually fourth or fifth. And we hit 420 and they had negative 013. So we're sending a message. Yeah. Yeah, I'm sure everybody's reading the box, he goes, oh, Stevenson's strong on a look at this. Well, no. So we've got Arcadia on Tuesday that we're really looking forward to. Gali Den usually wins their conference and is an NCAA team. So that's why we like to get them on the schedule. And thank goodness we have Eastern. We're really looking forward to playing Eastern because I really do think we've saw them play a couple times the weekend of the 16th and 17th at FNM. And they've got a freshman center. It's our last shot at the crossover to beat them in our gym at 10 o'clock. So we're looking forward to that. And DeSales is also a very formidable opponent and we got them at four o'clock. So there's only one way to climb in the top 25 is beat people in front of you. And if you don't, you're not gonna go anywhere and you're not gonna be pushed. And to a girl, I said, well, listen, I haven't started scheduling for next year. It wasn't just a little bit too tough and they all said, no coach. We wanna play these kind of games. How are we gonna get better? What are we gonna do if we get to the NCAAs and we have to face this kind of competition? So they want this kind of competition. The game matches have not gone the way we wanted, but at the same time, if you would have seen the team one Saturday, it's just like, yeah, I know this. They've realized that they've learned a lot from the past week and a half that has been difficult. All right, come on out, Owens Middle Gymnasium. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday all day. Four great matches for the Stevenson Women's volleyball team. We're like coaches corner. I'm Greg Royce, Dave Tremble, coach. Thanks for your time. You're welcome, and those games are free.