 Anybody who's ever thrown for any length of time knows that you're going to hit highs and lows. Nick Ponzio is no exception. We talk about in this clip, some of those highs and lows of his senior year when he was the national leader, but how did we get out of those low points? Find out in this clip, check it out. What I remember is it was like you had thrown and that was right, you had thrown well and then you were like trending down. And anybody who knew especially young Nick Ponzio knows once Nick is frustrated, that is a very difficult, like we got to turn that around and that's like, so I can see you, you know, and I remember we did our first training session, we had this small gym and we had this underground parking lot for people who kind of aren't familiar. We had this parking garage, which actually worked out great because we had this like 13 foot high cinder block wall in the parking structure and we came in and we did your first training session. And I want to say two days later, you did the Trebuko Hills meet. Yeah. And then I think you had like six throws over 60 feet. Yeah, it was like five or six. Yeah, it was like back into like the upper echelon of my throat. So I think you would PR it was nothing big, but I think the deal was it was the, you know, I think we had literally trained two times. We cleaned up a couple of things real fast, you know, which was, you know, I will plug of course the throwing chain reaction. That was the early days because we launched the TCR online, your senior year of high school that year was the year we used. So the first thing we fixed was your setup, your start. We made you understand that. And I remember going to that meet and we had to keep it on the down low, right? Nobody knew we were like training, but I was there and I filmed it. And I think, and you had five of the six throws over. And I think your other throw was like 59 or something. It was 59 and change or something. Right around the same mark for sure. It was a really big day. Now that you bring that up, that was a distinctive day. Now that I look back on it, because that was a really big, a really big day for kind of like moving into the rest of the season, just being like, OK, I'm back into like, you know, the swing of things and being like, OK, reassurance. You know what I mean? Yeah. Being kind of like. And so, you know, I think so that was good. And then I think we hit, you know, 61s and some 62s and like you were just consistently getting better. Then we had the coaching controversy. Then we took a little bit of a break, which was short, like maybe 10 days. Your parents were like, bullshit, we're coming down. Well, OK, so we got we got to make a point here because this is this is the time. What I remember about taking the break was that Arcadia and Mount Sack were both in that 10 day period. Yeah, that's true. And Arcadia and Mount Sack, when I look back on that, like my senior year was like the biggest letdowns of of my career. Like they just I went to those meets. I hadn't worked with you in a while. I was working just with my coaches and I was really kind of frustrated with the whole thing going on. And I fouled out of both disk and shot. I fouled out of both. And I was like, oh, my God, this is like, you know, back then. I mean, there's still big, big time meets for high school kids. But back then those were huge. Those were like going throughout the country and everything like that. Yeah, we have people coming around around. I remember I met Val Oman for the first time at that meet back in. 2012, she was still like living in Colorado. And I met some really big names back then that are now really big throwers. And it was just those were big time meets. And I remember that was like so dramatic. And I remember you were at, I believe it was Arcadia. And I hadn't seen you in a while because that was the second. I think it was Mount Sack first and then Arcadia. And you were like, I remember I just remember sitting in a chair being like, oh, my God, I just fouled out of four straight competitions that huge for my like, you know, I looked at them like these were huge for my college career to like, I, I have to be able to do to propel myself to the schools I want to go to and get the scholarship I want to get. And I remember you looked at me at the chair and you were like, we got to get back to work, buddy. And I remember I was like, I'm going because I talked to my dad on the way home, I'm going back to like, I could care less. Like I really could care less. I was like, I told my dad, I was like, if it comes down to it, I'll throw unattached. Like I'll just throw in like open meets and stuff. Like I don't care. I need to get to a point where I can get to the level that I need to get. I remember being my parents, not only that, like we had a really long conversation at the table and they were like, Hey, there's a good possibility that like they may actually kick you off the team. And I just remember being like, I just, I don't, I don't care anymore. Like I, and this goes back to talking about with me and my stubbornness back then it was just kind of, I would have done. And I, to the staff, I still do that with most of my life, but I would have done anything. And back then it might have come a little more long winded than it would now, but yeah, I would have done anything back then to, to be where I, where I wanted to get to. Yeah. No. And then, and then I remember we put it back on track and which kind of, you know, I was going to do the, the winds world, right? The flashback. Yeah. Yeah. I remember standing at the studio. We had gotten things back on track. Things were moving. And then you called and it was like, Hey, coach, guess how far I threw. Yeah. And it was like, and it was big. And I was like thinking he went, he went 65 or 66, which would have been, you know, big throw and you go 69, seven and a quarter. Right. And I was like, yes. I was just like so fired up. And, and then kind of the rest was history. The rest of the season, you just dominated. Kelsey had come up that year. You guys were going one, two. And a lot of the two, 63 all the time. I think you maybe, I don't remember what his PR was. I think it was like 64 or something. His PR was 62 six. Oh, okay. Yeah. And he was 61 62 pretty consistently. Yeah. And he again was a 45 foot shot putter the year before. And now he was a consistent 60 footer, first year rotator. Yeah. You, you were like crushing it. And then just every meet, your discus was going. You went to state. You dominated that. And then you and I went to junior nationals together. And yeah, right. And that, yeah, right. And I completely. Yeah. So and you had, unfortunately, you hit some good throws, but you just like just barely were fouling them. You were just a little forward. And yeah. But it was also things I just, you know, I had never done any training with any heavy ball up until that point. Like we never really worked with the six K or anything. We kind of stuck with lighter balls when I was younger. So that was, I remember distinctly that being a big issue. I remember feeling like I couldn't really push the ball in, you know, being where I'm at now and looking back on that, it probably was just towards the end of my like my body's tank. Like I just probably just didn't have much left after after that entire year.