 Hello, and welcome to the Dave Trumbo show presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm Greg Roy, shown by Stevenson Beach, volleyball head coach Dave Trumbo. Coach, you've had a couple weeks of practice and you head down to the National Small College Championships this weekend in Florida. And right now you're going through some, we're discussing off air, some challenge matches to determine the lineup for this weekend. Yeah, it's been interesting after we got back from Florida we had the snow. Yeah. So that if it was ever going to snow that was the right time for us because we missed a week. We just had conditioning but it's okay. So we were out there last week and this week and as you mentioned we started the challenge matches. We have seven pairs. Yeah. And for the small college national championship there is no exhibition. So we're only taking five and we try between every tournament to have challenges that keeps everybody engaged because that means our sevens can move up. That means our sixes can move up. It means everybody can move up. So since we have seven pairs we have to start with odd challenges. So yesterday we had the odds, the sevens challenges, the sixes, the five, the fours, threes, the twos, and one doesn't have to have a challenge. Today's the evens. So we're starting to set our lineup. Right now it's interesting. It could be the same, it could be different. So we had, we still have some things not solidified but it's game, it's matches in practice that are just like games. You know that the nerves, everything, so much rides on it which is difficult but what better way to decide what an athlete would want to control their own destiny and that's what they're able to do. The coach is not choosing. Yeah. Yeah I know it's one of those things that you know sometimes we talk about in team sports where you know a kid might not be happy to play in time, things like that. Well this is, this is go out and prove it. Go out on the court and earn your spot in the lineup and there's no, it's it's completely objective because it's whoever wins the match. Yep. Nobody can blame it on anybody. That dog on coach won't play me. Yeah. But yeah we had a match yesterday when 20, it went 24-22. Yeah. It's one of the sets so it's very close and but we'll get a chance to do this again. And we could reshuffle the deck and so you know they continue to get better and that's just helps us improve our depth from number one to number seven with everybody really engaged in practicing to get better. Yeah it obviously means that nobody can get complacent either no hey I'm gonna be in the lineup no matter what. So you know especially you know it'd be tough I think to fall from one or two but you know three four five certainly a couple challenges and be on the lineup. Yes that's that's true like the ones twos and threes were safe yeah this time around but yesterday the fives challenged the fours. Had the fours lost they would have been an odd and then they could have been challenged by the sixes because it would have been an even challenge day. That did not happen. The fours did solidify their spot in a really good match so today we're going to have the fives and sixes are going to go at it and that's going to really be a close game the rest of the kids anyone practice they just want to watch absolutely because it's you know there's a lot on the line and no matter who wins it's it's you know they will definitely be good representatives of our team. Yeah and talk about this weekend's tournament so you know it's a tournament you've been to you know all three years just talk about you know some of the teams you've faced and some of you've played already some of you've played a lot over the last two or three years. Well it's an interesting setup Warner who we is in our pool the pools came out Warner's in our pool and it's a team that we beat five nothing but all five matches went three. So that makes me very nervous because they're our girls are thinking oh my gosh we beat them five nothing well they all went three very easily we could have lost three of those five and we would have lost three to two. We're also playing San Diego City College who we played last year who they are actually in a league in California. So they've had lots of matches and I know they're improved from last year we did play them last year in the small college and we're able to beat them five nothing but that was early. You know the one of the biggest concern is how hot is it going to be you know and how many matches are we going to play. If we can win our first two early matches on Saturday we'll get a buy in the first round of the single elimination tournament. If we lose one of our matches then we're going to have to play three on Saturday. No matter what we're playing two on Sunday in the championships at two o'clock we do know that. Yeah so you're playing so you're saying the weather in San Diego is a little nicer than it is here right now. No it's here in California we're not oh right now. But I'm saying they play a lot more matches. Yes yes yes absolutely. I think it is we have one of our players is from San Diego she's saying it's a lot nicer. I'm sure it is. All right coach we'll save travels to Florida this weekend and best of luck we'll talk to you next week. Thanks Greg. All right for Dave Trumbo. I'm Greg Royce. This has been the Dave Trumbo show.