 Welcome to the John Stoltrager show. I'm Joe Ambo, joined now with John Stoltrager, head coach of the swimming programs. And coach, it's that time of year that it's all been done for. You're headed into the MAC championship. It's a four-day meet. It's going to be really long, really grueling. What are the things working in on this weekend? On the girls side, I think we're going to look for a couple of our medley relays to try to place pretty high. For the girls, I mean, our backstroke events are going to be pretty good. Our IM should be pretty good as well. We should place a girl. Jules should place pretty high in her breaststroke in the one breast, two breasts. So we're looking on the girls side to try to get someone in almost every single event, at least in concies, if not finals. And on the boys side, we're going to be pretty strong in our fly events. Jack looks pretty good in his IM. So again, we're looking to make a statement and to see that hard work pay off. That hard work has been paying off all season. You guys have been breaking school records, personal bests. Are those any of the goals for this weekend? Or just having a solid time finishing in your top five, finished best, or anything like that? We always want to go in and do a personal best. I mean, ideally, you do three personal bests in the three events that you swim. That's our goal. Again, positioning where you position in the conference is secondary to personal best. We have some lofty goals for some of our kids. Some of our kids would like to try to make a B cut for nationals. We have some kids that want to win a conference title individually. Our relays, a couple of them, we're going to try to get top three. While it's going to be very tough, I still think that it's a possibility, for sure, especially with all the hard work that the kids did this year, we look pretty good right now. And it's been a season of progressions. Everybody's been making progress. Everybody's been swimming faster, even when they were tired. Now that they're rested, are you expecting even faster times? And last year, we had two podiums. Maybe even more podiums this year. Oh, yeah. We should have many more podiums this year than last year. We had a girl last week actually do an in-season best during practice, which is a great sign for taper. And yeah, I expect multiple kids dropping several seconds. We're going to be, it's called suited up. So we're going to have our tech suits on and fully rested, fully shaved. It should be a fast meet. I'm looking forward to it. And I'm smiling. So I mean, it's that time of year. Yeah. Smiling's always good heading into the conference meet. And again, it's four days, really grueling. How do you space that out? How do you plan that weekend? Well, the great thing about how we train is we train to swim this meet. So all the yardage that we put in, all the mantra that I've been saying, swim fast when you're tired, it comes into play at the conference meet because on the fourth day, you're doing 200 to stroke. You have the 400 free relay. There's the mile. And I don't care how rested and in shape you are, your body does get tired. And at least my kids will know how to swim fast when they're tired because it does happen. But I would say historically my teams on the third day are pretty strong, pretty, pretty strong. I think it was the third or fourth day last year that the podiums were made. So maybe aiming towards that again this year. Yeah, we will not slow down, lack of a better word, on the last day. We will be as strong on the last days we were on the first day. And again, it's a testament to the kids and how hard they swam this year and to the work ethic that they put in. And again, that's our goal is to swim as fast on the first days we do on the last day. Well, Coach, we wish you the best of luck and safe travels into York, Pennsylvania for the MAC conference meet. Thank you very much. He's John Stoltzrager. I'm Joe Wamba, and this has been the Stauncho John Stoltzrager show.