 Hello, my name is Aldous Berzins, I'm the men's volleyball coach at Stevenson University and I'd like to tell you a little bit about the volleyball program. Number one, it goes without saying that we stress academics, that all my guys get either A's or B's, I don't allow C's, they're not average and they've done a great job listening to that. I've won the team GPA award the past two years so I'm as proud of that as I am of our volleyball accomplishments. A little bit about our volleyball program, I'd like to say that we have a goal of competing at the national level for the championship. We have a really tough schedule, we go out to California or we go up to New England to play. We've even played internationally, we've gone across to Italy so my guys get a lot of competitive experience. Stevenson itself in the past five years has been in the final four NCAA's and in the elite eight and we've won our conference so the guys are used to winning and we train hard to do that. My philosophy is to train volleyball players, not just setters, middles, outside hitters and liberos but I like our guys to become all around players and also to help with that our athletic director is committed to starting a men's speech volleyball program. I think that's great because we were the first to start women's speech and we have four awesome courts right across from this field that go unused in the fall. Stevenson is an excellent small division three school outside of Baltimore that has a wonderful academic program and also in athletics there are 27 sports and we excel at all of them. I wanted to mention that we are also supported like a professional program with a fantastic strength and conditioning program that's run by MC McFadden and we have also a great medical team to take care of the guys and keep them healthy. Our team volleyball culture is to basically follow as my philosophy of having fun but hard fun and we practice and don't waste time practicing and the guys I think you know learn from that that they need to train hard and then when they get a chance to compete they have fun competing so I teach the guys to support each other and if they're not having fun you know in a team culture they should maybe find another sport like an individual sport but you know we stick really well together.