 Hello and welcome to the John Stiltrager show presented by Buffalo Wildlings I'm Greg Royce shown by Stevenson swimming head coach John Stiltrager and coach you wrapped up the dual meet portion of your schedule this past week You went to Arcadia very strong. You know they've been swimming pretty well But you guys swam pretty well in certain events on Saturday. Just kind of talk about you know how that meet win for you Well, it was again. It was a tough meet for us. We were coming off a long Hard month of doubling almost every single day we had one girl left to qualify for a conference meet and Happy to say that that Megan actually qualified in both the hundred and the 200 breaststroke Doing a lifetime best and her two breasts by almost seven seconds So it was it was a good swim for her and again that the team kind of just pushed their way through the meet Which is what you expected this point of the year You know again using our mantra of trying to swim, you know learn how to swim fast when you're tired I you know, I think they accomplished that goal Yeah, I know we've talked about that all year like swimming tired I was seeing all I think like you said hard month of training third straight Saturday was doing me Obviously, that was the case, you know on Saturday. Yeah, they they are tired and the nice thing is this week We started taper which we lost our lifting sessions. We've lost our afternoon sessions You know, we're gonna kind of stay the course for this week as far as our morning practice and our intensity But you know, we've lost a lot of stuff already And I can see the kids starting to rebound a little bit from from the hard work and you know We're starting to you know really get pepped up for the conference meet Yeah, we talked about just before we want to aim about the conference meet And you have an extra week this year in between the end your last duel me and the conference me How does that affect what you do your taper everything else going? You know as you taper down for the conference week a couple weeks Well, ironically the thing that affects us more than anything doing going a week later is that Our last week of hard work. We start classes, which last year we didn't have to do We started taper the first week that the classes were in session So we didn't have any conflicts with like afternoon practice because we didn't have any right So we had to kind of work around that this year where Some of the kids couldn't double every single day actually most couldn't So you know you have to try and try to find your way around that but you know that the extra week Gives us a chance to do some things like this Saturday that we normally wouldn't get to do You know practice wise work on some fundamental things work on You know some techniques stuff that you know last year we had to meet we had we actually had Arcadia a week into our taper So again, it gives us a little a little better chance to focus on some of the finer things in swimming Advantage disadvantage or just something different. It's just something different. The kids would say that it's a total disadvantage Because it's an extra week of swimming It's an extra week of doubles You know it depends on I guess the program for us it gives us another week of hard work To get ready for the conference meet and I think it's you're gonna see it that it's definitely gonna pay off You know at the conference meet for us. Yeah, absolutely We'll coach best of luck as you continue your training and get ready for the conference meet a couple weeks And we'll talk to you next week. Great. Thank you very much. All right for John Stiltrager. I'm Greg Royce This has been the John Stiltrager show