 Welcome to the Graham Miller show presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm Sam Murray joined now with Stevenson men's soccer head coach Graham Miller and coach what a year it was 12 9 and 1 advanced to the max semifinals where you fall Just one nothing to top ranked messiah advanced to the ECAC second round talk about the season as a whole Yeah, well we you know we exceeded our goals from where we wanted to be and and it's all about you know Small steps when you're building a program and and you know, it's not a major achievement what we did this year But it's an achievement You know making the Mac playoffs for the first time in the seven years that we've been in the conference is huge for this program It helps us with recruiting it shows that we're you know competing with the best and when you're competing with one of the best teams In the country and messiah and the Defender national champs It was it was you know rewarding to see that you know We didn't just make the playoffs, but we also gave you know the number one seed of a scare You know and you know took them twice to two one-goal losses Yeah, you talk about goals for the year You 12 wins is the most since 2010 Last year you scored 10 goals this year you put 42 in the back of the net talk about even shots You put you total 200 more shots from a year ago Just talk about those those small goals that you and that was it and we talked about it back at the start with the Preview to the season, you know one of our goals was to you know, and we did it Through statistics we talked to the guys about okay We need to average close to two goals a game, you know for us And you know scoring and then we need to you know obviously allow You know less than one and we did that and that's that was the turnaround from the year before And it was great to see that you know, we just didn't have one goal scorer You know, we had multiple different people that stepped up and scored We get defender scoring goals at big moments We had the forwards like Tarik and Jay put the ball in the back of the net when they needed to So it was very pleasing for us as a team that you know We turned those stats in our favor and we you know, we got the we got the victories that we needed to get 12 wins Yeah, you had four players named to all conference. That's also the most since 2005 And I think turning the page everyone's back, you know, you get you get all these key players back terrifically Jay Smith up top DR Medtart in midfield Matt Stelitano stepped up big in net Just talk about how you know the benefit of that. Yeah, well, we're excited. So now they have the experience So we were able to give these freshman and sophomores that have worked hard for this program over the last two years since I took over You know some good experience. They got to see some postseason play They got to you know play against some of the best teams in the country And now the goal is loftier now the goal for next year Will be to finish in the top three because we are returning everybody So they can't rest nor laurels We've been having our individual meetings and the big thing for me is we have to now work harder You know now everybody knows that we're kind of on the map a little bit now And we need to work hard in the offseason with all the returning players to be ready to go again next year And you know turn those I think it was yeah It was nine one goal losses into one goal wins and we'll give ourselves a chance to to have a major achievement and reach The NCAAs for the first time in men's soccer history. Yeah, and before we let you go another major achievement off the field You had two players named academic all district Terrigli and DR Medtart. Yeah, and that's you know, we've got a set of Stevenson soccer standards that we You know want the guys to live up to on and off the field and and obviously one of the main ones and the reason Why we're here, you know, they're student athletes is the academic piece and you know really impressed with those two And there's a lot of others that are you know, you know really doing well in class, but really happy for DR and Tarek They've deserved the work they put in in the classroom and on the field. Well coach Thanks for taking the time these couple times that we sat down and chatted and good luck in the in the offseason and spring practice Thanks, Sam. I appreciate it for head coach Graham Miller. I'm Sam Murray and this has been the Graham Miller show