 Hello and welcome to the David Ann Show, presented by Buffalo Outlooks. I'm Greg Royce, my student head tracker here at Coach David Ann. Coach, it's been an exciting time around the program these past few weeks. Let's start and talk about the back-to-door championship. The men were able to reap you as profit champions. A little more easily maybe than last time, and then the women placed fourth over. I'll just talk in general, just how that went for both the men and the women. Yeah, so on the men's side, I mean, we went in as the favorite. They definitely felt the pressure, but it was nice to come out with the championship again for the second year. Last year, it was a lot closer. We only won by two points. This year, I think it was over 40 points. So it was really exciting, and we had a lot of great performances on that side as well. And then talking a little bit about the women's side, the big story for your women obviously to throw is they had a great week. There were a couple of events that just talked about about points that gave you, and overall it seemed hard to do. Yeah, so that throw's group on the women's side had an amazing meet, both the shot put and the weight throw. I forget the exact total number of points, but it was a significant part of their points overall. And we wouldn't have finished fourth without them scoring all those points. And that top four teams, we knew it was going to be close. So we kind of finished at that fourth spot, but it's definitely a motivation for them going into outdoor next year. Yeah, absolutely. You looked at that top four on the women's side. It was pretty close. You know, a couple points here and there. You know, you talked about the second and third, and potentially the first. It just seemed a little more gaped on the women's side, which I think was the strong point of men. When you look at the standings, it wasn't so much. You didn't have a ton of individual wins, but just eventually you add three, four, five, that score. It certainly helps that deficit. It helps that control. Absolutely. That is where it helped a lot on the men's side. We're definitely deep and have people in most events. And that's our goal over the next year, with the women's team as well, is trying to fill in some of those holes. And then hopefully come out with two teams on the men's team. Yeah, absolutely. And then, you know, just a new vigil, you know, first you were by name, but it's like a coach for the years. So congratulations for that. Thank you. And then Derek Davies, who's named the coach, track athlete here for the new job. He's a sophomore, certainly impressive. And obviously he's got a room to grow. Yeah, so Derek, I mean, he ran, I think it was six, nine, four at the conference meet. And then he actually ran six, eight, nine this past weekend. So really impressive. I mean, like you said, he's only a sophomore. So myself and Coach Brown are really excited that he's got two more years. Yeah, absolutely. That's 15 years. You know, I had last year's qualifier this weekend. This week is coming up. We have three team athletes competing at the National, which is the first time in indoor when we've ever had three. So that's sort of a great accomplishment. Derek and the 60 are with you, Matt. And Kim Boat-Hammerman, long jump. So just talk about those three and how they're feeling coming into the weekend. Yeah, so it was a really exciting weekend this past weekend because I'll just start with Kim. So Kim, going into the long jump this weekend, she was ranked 20th and they only take 20. So she put a lot of pressure on herself, but she always kind of does well in those clutch situations. And she actually ended up winning the all Atlantic meet on her last jump. And she jumped 5.68 meters. So that bumped her all the way up to 13th on the list. So she's going this weekend. And then on the men's side, Derek Davis improved to 689, which only one other person in our program has ever wrote 690 when it was about to Williams. And then Richie Case, he didn't compete this weekend. We're resting up because he has seven events to do this coming weekend. So we rested him up a little bit, but he's going in, I think, ranked number 17th in the country this weekend. So really exciting, like you said, to have three individuals. It's the most we've ever had. And certainly, if you look at both Derek and Kim, they're right there for the school records. They have a good performance this weekend. They can have that school record by the time it's all said. Obviously, the primary goal is to finish in that top eight, you know, American status. But certainly, if they do that, they'll certainly have that school record. Yeah, I do feel like if any of them improve on what they've already done, they have a really good shot at being in that top eight. Yeah. And then trying to believe that a couple of weeks, you know, the weather outside, a couple of weeks will be in the outdoor season. So I know you guys are taking a couple of weeks off to kind of rest up and prepare for that. But I'm sure you're looking forward to that. I'm sure you're looking forward to making some weather as well. Yeah, absolutely. So I mean, we will take a little bit of a break, but it's just kind of right into, right into the outdoor. I mean, our first meet is at Wyden on March 29th and 30th. Right. So yeah, I got a lot of time, but I've seen a couple of, you know, we're breaking everything a little bit. Yeah. So my coach will wish you and your student athletes the best of luck this weekend at Nationals. And we'll try to get soon. Thanks, man. All right. For David Dan, I'm Greg Royce. This has been the David Dan Show.