 Welcome to the John Stoltzrager show. I'm Joe Wamba joined now, of course, with John Stoltzrager, head coach of the swimming programs. And coach, you host the first event of three over the weekend at home and get a pretty good result on the women's side, at least splitting and winning the important one. Yeah, we split against Dickinson. We lost Dickinson, but beat like homey college. We swam really well, both guys and girls. The girls side broke a couple school records again. Melanie broke her own 100 and 200 free records. And Izzy broke her 100 fly record. We also had a couple girls qualified for the conference meet, Adriana, Elizabeth, both qualified. And so actually did Laurel, all three triplets qualified for the conference meet this weekend. Keeping theme with the triplets there. They seem to follow each other around. Can't get rid of them all. Yeah, if one makes it, they all have to make it. So I mean, it was the same exact thing last year. Once one made it, then the other two had to make it. And the total on qualifiers jumps from 7 to 11 now. You've got 11 girls going this season already versus 7 last year. Yeah, not only do we have more kids, but I think we're deeper this year than last year on the girls side. The boys side, we already have three qualifiers. And again, the numbers are low, but the quality is definitely there. Hoping the other two boys qualified before we break for December. And again, we could have another one or two girls qualify before the break in December. And beating, not only qualifying, but defeating school records over the week in the competition this last weekend. Yeah, the nice thing is, again, it's almost, it's nice to see improvement from the kids. And it's self-validating for them, knowing that they're hard work that they're putting in every single day at 6 AM. And then again in the afternoon, it's starting to work. And while they're still learning, I think, the process of swimming fast when they're tired, they're starting to get it. And we've said it, show in and show out, that we're a young team. And we have four senior girls and no senior boys. So they're relying on each other to learn and try to get through being really tired. Because last week, we swam Wilkes. And on the women's side, we beat Wilkes. But I don't think we swam all that well. The night before, we had an extremely, extremely difficult practice. And the girls didn't rebound that well from it. But the boys, on the other hand, did. They swam really, really well against Wilkes, winning every single individual event but one. But this week, the girls were bounded. And they swam really, really well when we swam at McDonald. But the boys swam, again, OK, but not to the level that they did the week before. And that's just, again, part of being a young team. Just trying to learn what works for them, what doesn't, how to push, where to push in the practice pool. Exactly. You have to learn what they can do and how they do it. And then you have to mold around that to make sure that you're doing everything you can to make sure that they're successful without taking away from the culture you're trying to implement and the hard work that they have to put in to be successful at the end of the year. And looking forward to this weekend, you guys travel up to King's College and compete in another all-important conference meet. Yeah, King's. It should be a great meet. Again, on the guy side, we're going for individual wins. We're going to see if we can win more events than we lose. And on the girl side, it should be very competitive meet. They're a pretty good team. We match up pretty well against them. Again, our goal was the end of the year. Not so much the middle of the year. But wins are always nice. But we won't sacrifice what we're doing in the pool. And I would anticipate another hard practice on Friday. And then trying to teach them how to swim fast when they're tired on Saturday. And put a game plan together to do exactly that. Well, Coach, we wish you the best of luck in the practice pool this week and their trip up to King's. And we'll be looking forward to talking to you next week. Great. Thank you very much. He's John Stoltrager. I'm Joe Wamban. This has been the Ston Sholtrager Show.