 Hello, and welcome to the Eric Camadeca show presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm Greg Royce, joined by Stevenson Head Track and Field Coach, Eric Camadeca. Coach, obviously, it's one of your biggest weeks of the year. Mac Championship for indoor this weekend. The pre-championship polls came out yesterday, and the men were picked first in a very narrow poll with Widener. Both had same-out first place votes. You end up getting one more point. And then the women were picked second, and got four first-places votes. So I mean, obviously, you got to go out to perform. But obviously, the conference and the coaches see you as one of the favorites on both sides going in. Yeah, this is what we talked about when we brought in all these recruiting classes that we want to be the top in the conference. And we've always had the attitude that we're an underdog, and now we go in as the favorite. So some of us are feeling a little of the pressure of it. But a couple of days of good practice, all the training, all the hard work, this is what we signed up for. Yeah, obviously, this weather that we've had the last couple of days has to be great for your training. It has been. Again, when we're inside battling it all the time in indoors, cold weather, to be able to have these two days before conference championships, to go out there and training, get some great quality training, feeling fast, feeling comfortable, it's been great for a benefit, great benefit for the entire team. Yeah, now obviously, you didn't compete last weekend. Use the time to kind of rest a little bit and train for this weekend. Kind of how has that gone, how has the process gone with getting ready for this weekend and everything that goes into that? You know, again, the indoor season is a grind with the weather. People getting sick, you know, you just, you feel cooped up and everything. So having that weekend, just to recover, get ahead on score, get ahead on sleep is really beneficial for us. You know, we just really like going in there and feeling refreshed. You know, a lot of teams go into it, trying to get those last-time qualifiers. You know, we were hoping by the time last week enrolled by, we did everything we needed to do to be able to take advantage of a weekend off to go into conference championships. Yeah, then obviously, this Friday and Saturday, you're up at Lehigh for conference championships. Kind of take us through. I mean, we know some of the names that are expected to do well. And also talk about, like you touched on it, like going in as one of the favorites, rather than maybe the underdog kind of scrappy. Is there a little bit more pressure on the guys and the women going in that way? Yeah, you know, I think they're definitely feeling it and it kind of goes back to what we talked about in the beginning of the year, you know, and at any other time, going into championships, you know, we were the underdog. We always counted on Devonte William to carry the stick and the torch for us. And, you know, that's not the situation anymore. We're the favorites without him. And now it's, you know, who's gonna step up? Who's gonna be the person to really, you know, lead us through? And I think the benefit on both men's and women's side, we don't have to look just to one person. You know, last year was always Danika, Danika, Devonte, Devonte. Now, you know, we have the Kimberly Hammons, Dion Hicks, Rachel Panix, you know, Matt Riggins, Kendall, Langston, Pat. We just, we have such a good group of people who can really lead us through that not one person on this team has to carry the burden of, you know, scoring all the points. We're gonna do it as a team on both the men's and women's side. Yeah, absolutely. You know, I'm getting ready to write the preview for the meet this weekend. And that's one of the things I noticed is, you know, there's like, I think 14 or 15 top three performances on both sides by the men and women, but it's not just one or two athletes. It's, you know, seven or eight different kids and relays and you've got points potentially coming from everywhere. Yeah, exactly. And that's the really exciting thing about all this is that, you know, we're gonna have a lot of new conference champions on both men's and women's side, you know, and it's just gonna be a new face for the conference as well. You know, again, the conference is so used to seeing the same people at the top and across the boards could be a lot of different faces. Yeah. All right, coach, we wish you the best of luck this weekend and hopefully we'll talk about a couple of strong performances here next week. Yeah, absolutely. All right, for Eric Camadeca, I'm Greg Royce. This has been the Eric Camadeca show.