 Welcome back to the Graham Miller show presented by Buffalo Wild Wings. I'm Sam Murray joined now with Stevenson men's soccer head coach Graham Miller and coach you guys finished up the regular season last last week two games on the road against alvernia and Third ranked messiah. Let's recap those games. Yeah, we you know, we we were going into the alvernia game You know, we talked about it last week that we still had an opportunity to make the playoffs For the first time in our you know school history in the Mac And we didn't quite get there obviously we you know, we didn't perform to the level that I know we can that we have done this year It was a little bit of a letdown to you know come away from that alvernia game that you know We had an opportunity to make the playoffs and we didn't quite perform and then obviously going into messiah You know the number three in the country for a reason they're you know, very good team Very technical team, but you know after we went down early to them We actually played some of our best soccer and kind of matched them It was only seven shots to four in the first half and you know, but they had a two-nil lead and you know That's that's why they're so good. They take their chances and we didn't you know We had some opportunities and didn't take them and And you know so we can take a lot out last week. Yes, we didn't quite have the intense against alvernia We did put a good, you know a good performance and against messiah Who are going to be a team that we're going to have to you know Get up to their level if we're going to win the conference in the future Yeah, and just recapping the season it not the record you might have wanted but your guys never Never hung their heads. They never gave up What was it about this team this year that kept they just kept pushing? Yeah, and that was the thing we talked about, you know every game we were in you know There was some games we didn't quite you know live up to and the score lines got away from us in the last Ten minutes and that was more down to depth, you know, because we didn't have the depth on the team That we that we need to have if we're going to compete with these best teams in the country So a lot of positives. Yes, we didn't quite get the results You know it was our first we did win over hoods our first time over them since I think like 2013 or 14 So we put ourselves in a position that we we had an opportunity to be in the playoffs in the last week of the season Which was what we wanted to do. We didn't want to be out of it out of the mix We could have been after that first loss to albright But the guys kept battling and that's down to you know the senior leadership You know great seniors and you know and I thought the freshman class You know so, you know two classes that really stood out this year You know our seniors who have been through a lot over the last three years and three different coaches You know, they really were positive They drove the team on and this freshman class came in and and really did some great things and you know You know very proud of them and there's a lot of hope for the future Yeah, speaking of that freshman class taric lee was named the mac commonwealth rookie of the year as well as Earning second team honors talk about his performance on the on the field this year Yeah, and you know tarik stood out right away when we saw him in preseason and and you know, he's a he's a good kid Quiet kid, but he works so hard and and and he's going to get better You know, this is the start of things to come. I think for tarik and you know I expect more accolades in the future because He has the potential to to be an all-american one day with with his talent that he has and and I hope he will You know take this as the start and it'll motivate him to keep going further and and with tarik and and you know He obviously like like any individual award is down to obviously the players that are pushing him in practice The the players that are giving him assists in the game to get those game winners and You know, he's I know he would be very appreciative of his teammates for getting this award and You know, he he just had a great season as a freshman and I think some other freshmen really stood out as well You know, I was hoping dylan holly for his play as center back would have got some recognition But if you look across the board at the the teams that um, you know that were nominated And selected, you know, my sign like homing kind of dominate and there's a lot of seniors and juniors on their roster So, you know for us to get tarik in there, you know shows, you know It's our first major award in the mac for men's soccer. So it's definitely something for us For the program. It's a it's a huge positive for us Well, coach, we thank you for taking time out every week to be here with us and I'm looking forward to doing it again next year Wish you the best of luck all summer long recruiting and in the spring season. Yeah, well, it was my pleasure, Sam you know, I like coming on these and or recruits like our players like it and You know, we're yeah, that says we're going to start recruiting and and hopefully some recruits are seeing this and You know seeing that we had a rookie of the year and you know Things are looking up for this program and and we're excited for next year already And we're going to start working on that and recruiting is going to be huge for us over the next coming months and You know, we're excited, but thank you for doing these shows I always appreciate it my pleasure For coach grand miller. I'm sam Murray and this has been the grand miller show