 Welcome back to Lakeland sports and a visit with sophomore defenseman Dan Billett and a chance to to get to know Dan a little bit more. We didn't get a chance to talk to him one-on-one last year. Dan thanks for stopping by first off. Yeah thanks thanks for having me. So Highlands Ranch Colorado, how'd you get from there to Bemidji State? Well after after high school I ended up playing junior hockey in Aberdeen. I was actually recruited by Travis Winter when he was a coach there. So I played a year there and then he left to came he came here. So I went back to Aberdeen for my second year and it was during that season that I was talking to to winter and serratory a lot and that's when I committed it was my my second year of juniors. Outstanding. So your your high school career mostly in Colorado too is that tell us a little bit about that. I played all growing up in Colorado and then my sophomore year high school I went away to a military school a prep school called Culver Military Academy and that's in Culver, Indiana. So I spent three years there and that's where they first saw me. Give us an idea what and how big hockey is in Colorado. It must be you know grown since the avalanche got there in the 90s. It's really taken off. I know they got there in the 90s and it really caught like caught wind and I moved to Colorado in 2001 and that was actually the year that the ABS won the Stanley Cup. So I was watching that happen and I told my parents then I was like I want to play hockey so that's when it really caught on for me and a lot of kids my age in Colorado and just a little bit older that's when they really started playing too so it's really taken off and it's starting to become a hockey powerhouse. ABS fan? Oh yeah unfortunately right now. Nobody wins forever nobody loses forever too. That's true. They'll figure it out. They're worse than the league right now but they'll figure it out. Well talking about figuring it out too. You came in started as a freshman defenseman here at Bemichie State and boy you guys are all coming up together here and something that obviously has clicked very early in this season number one defensive team in the league and the nation most. Yeah I mean last year we obviously we had a really young decor and we learned a lot and we grew a lot and this year our freshmen that have stepped in have been outstanding and all of us sophomores have just kept growing and I don't I don't know what it is but we're really clicking and we're working well together and you know bitsters playing great behind us and I think that's the big help but we need to keep it up we're playing really well as a group. You guys change your style at all a little more puck possession or anything like that defensively this year? The only thing I can think of is we're trying to get involved more offensively as a defensive core but besides that it's the same principles in the D zone just work ethic and in details and we're we're just doing everything right right now I need to keep it going. Excellent well yeah and keep it going thanks for this Dan good to good to get to know you a little bit more too and all the best. Oh thank you very much. All right Dan Bellott sophomore defenseman here Bemichie State be back in just a moment with more Lincoln Sports.