 Hi, this is Kristen Brooks reporting live on the Green Carpet at the 2018 Stephenson Gala here with senior Annika Swartz, women's volleyball and beach volleyball. Hi Annika. Hi. What a beautiful. Thank you you too. Thank you. So tell us a little bit about, I mean you're still, you just finished beach volleyball actually today. Yes. And you ran off the court and got ready. Doesn't shock me. And how was your indoor season? I mean it was an amazing one I know but tell us a little about it. I think it was amazing as you said I loved it and I just had an even more fun time knowing that it's my senior year knowing that you were just putting everything else on the floor leaving everything that you had on the floor and I think hosting NCAAs in our own gym was just a really great way to like put the nail in the coffin for the end of our senior year. Absolutely Ann, you got a lot of great accolades for our team All-American. Congratulations. Thank you. That's a lot. Thank you. How would you say your teammates have been supporting and the dynamic of your team? We've always been really close we always just all hang out together we're always just one big happy family but I think supportive underclassmen have always supported the upperclassmen and just the upperclassmen just showing them how it goes and showing them the ropes really helps like bind the team together and it's not just seniors against freshmen it's we're all together it's no grade level everybody's friends with everybody. Absolutely and is there one game throughout your four years that sticks out in your head one they all like never forget or hold on to. That's a really hard question I know. A moment or a game. I think really we always love playing Messiah. Every day I think that you would ask says that they love playing Messiah and I think just all of the conference championships that we played against Messiah were just all such great games and such good competition and we were confident in our abilities but they were too and they always gave us a huge fight so I think all three of those games on my first three years were always just stuck in my head and I think that's when we pushed ourselves to the highest limit to play the best that we could play. Absolutely and so give me a picture like how how have your four years been for you the Stevenson culture the athletic culture making nursing school work with athletics how's it been for you? All together I think it was one of the toughest things that I've ever had to do going to school going through nursing and making it work with volleyball but Stevenson just made it so much easier on me and just the friends that I have and the family that I have now have just like made it flow so easily I cannot believe it's the end of the fourth year it's blown by but I've just loved every second of it. And do you have any advice for a freshman coming in? A freshman of volleyball player or a freshman athlete in general? I think definitely just get close to your team the closer you can get to your team the better you all will end up playing the more flow you'll have and no matter if you're a freshman or all the way up to a senior like you can make a difference if you're on the court off the court anything can help your team in the long run. Yeah absolutely and I think like you said these teammates are gonna be your friends throughout your life. Definitely. So lastly would you want to give a shout out or thank somebody anybody really that's impacted your Stevenson career? I want to thank my parents they were the ones who really pushed me into athletics I in high school I did not want to play volleyball in college actually okay they were the ones that actually pushed me to go for it and pushed me to really just give it my all and just to try it and I ended up coming here on my visit and loving it and they've come to every single game they flew to Florida with beach they've they've come to everything and supported me a lot so I want to thank mom and dad.