 Welcome to the Dave Trumbo Show. I'm Joe Wombo, joined now with Dave Trumbo. Head coach of the Beach Volleyball team, not in many Maryland. Schools have Beach Volleyball, none, actually. We're the only ones. But you guys traveled out to Texas, got to play four matches. Just tell the weekend what for you. Well, it was great to be able to open up somebody else's facility. Last year, we really did it upright when we opened up our facility. And this year, Texas A&M Kingsville has a beautiful facility there and had six courts. We are joined by Principia from St. Louis and Missouri Baptist. And we played Texas A&M Kingsville, and it came down to the very last two of our. We were up two to one, actually, Joe. And it came down to our last two, our number ones, and our number twos, and both of them happened to lose in three. But it was a great showing. And then that night, we played Missouri Baptist. And we were able to beat them in their division two, beat them four to one. The next day, we played Principia, beat them five-nothing. And then we had a rematch with Texas A&M Kingsville. This time, they were ready. So our one, Sammy Perlow and Kristen Brooks, they did go three. And our exhibition match of Chelsea, Ireland, and Deanna Bradbury went three. But we weren't able to get any wins, so we lost that one five-nothing. But all in all, great weekend, terrible weather. But you get what you get. You're at the outdoor sport. And like you said, both teams are going to be competing in those conditions. And there's a lot of competition this week, not only between Stevenson playing solid opponents, but also solid competition for who gets to travel. Yes. And so I think our kids are starting to understand that. It was really tough pitting teammate against teammate. We talked about that a little bit last time. So we kind of talked about it a little bit, because we had challenge matches. Because the odd numbers challenged the even numbers on the first day back. And then we had the evens challenge the odds. It's kind of hard to explain. But then we said to the kids, I said, well, we really could rotate people. But you would lose the power. You would lose the control. So if you lose the control, don't complain if the coaches are putting the people on the court. It's kind of like indoor, where we have the stats, but we still have the final say. For beach, it's different. And that's kind of hard to embrace. But then when they realized, I think, that they were going to lose that power of, as an athlete, you want to be able to decide your own destiny. And so as a group, they were pretty much in agreement. Yeah, this is hard. We have to be teammates first. But we have to compete against each other. We're making each other better. And working on the sportsmanship of it. Because it's really tough. There's a lot at stake. And of course, those challenge matches are coming. They're being won by two points. So it's very difficult. And kids are putting a lot of work and energy into it. But that's as a coach. You love your practices to be that way. And that's when we have those matches. That's the way they are. And it seems like with that competition, even on your own team, they also support each other really well. They have to be each other's best cheerleaders, especially when you're playing so far from home so often. Yes. That's absolutely the truth. And we talked about that because we are teammates first. Well, actually, we're friends first. And then teammates. And then competitors against each other. So we talked about the things that we were going to do to bond as a team when we go to Florida on Saturday. Let's talk about that Florida trip. It seems to be a traditional one now. If you want to call it that on your second year, just preview the matches and the travel schedule that you guys are going to be facing. It's very ambitious. We are actually going to fly down to the Fort Lauderdale Miami area on Saturday and then practice Saturday evening. And then Sunday morning, we're going to play St. Thomas University and Johnson and Wales, 2D2 teams. And it's their first year. Then we're going to hop in vans. And we're going to drive to St. Petersburg. And on Tuesday, we're going to play Eckerd in a double duel, which means we're going to play in the morning, turn around and play in the afternoon. Eckerd's a really good D2 school and didn't have a lot of success with him last year. But we're a lot better. So it'll be very interesting to see how we fare. On Wednesday, we're practicing. On Thursday, we're going to travel toward Central Florida. We're going to play Warner University and Weber International University in a tri-match. Then on Thursday, that was Thursday. And then Friday, we're going to fly to Alabama. We're going to pick up Huntington, which is the other D3 school. So it's Principia, Huntington, and Stephenson. So we're going to pick up Huntington and Principia will be there as well. We're playing Huntington on Friday and then we're praying Huntington again on Saturday and Principia on Saturday. Then we're flying home on Sunday. So we're getting five dates. The idea is you're allowed 16 dates you can play. Last year, we had 11 dates because the weather was good. We hit them all. This year, 13, you need to have eight to be an official. And so you got the 18. Well, and you guys are definitely going to be able to get those in for the most part this weekend, I imagine, and definitely no rest for the wicked with all those travel dates yet. Well, and it is going to be challenging. But if we're spending the money to go all the way to Florida, we're going to try to make the most of our trip and play as many matches as we can. We come back and have a week off before we go to UNC Wilmington for a big tournament with all Division I schools. Well, Coach, we wish you the best of luck in all these matches and all the traveling that you're doing and safe travels on your way. Thanks, Joe. He's Dave Trumbo. I'm Joe Wamba, and this has been the Dave Trumbo show.