 Welcome to the John Stoltzrager show. I'm Joe Ambo, joined now with John Stoltzrager head coach of the men's and women's swimming teams. And Coach, you guys traveled down to Gallaudet, down to DC, and a historical weekend that we had. And historical in the fact that the women won again, and men closed the gap. Yeah, the women put up a good fight against Gallaudet. We actually broke two school records. Izzy broke her own 200 fly record. And Bailey broke her own 1,000 free record. We also had Lindsey actually had two personal bests in her 100 and 200 backstroke. And her 200 back was substantial, I believe it was by like seven seconds. So that is awfully impressive. And it's a perfect time of the year for that to be happening. You guys got the conference schedule coming up, or conference meet towards the middle of February. But first, next weekend is senior weekend. Yeah, next weekend we have our last homey to the year against Arcadia. And it should be a fun meet. Arcadia is coming in, and they are stacked. They're undefeated in the women's side, and they only have one loss on the men's side. So it should be a good meet for us to kind of gauge where we're at going into the conference meet. Yeah, that'll be an awfully important format engaging yourself. And you mentioned before we started rolling them that you're in the tapering stage of the season. You've revisited really what that is, that meet. Sure, we just came off a full month of doubles every single day, and our goal was to actually get as tired as we possibly could. And I'm pretty sure if you asked the swimmers, we accomplished that goal. Now what we're trying to do is start to rest and recover for the conference meet. And what that entails is we actually lost all our doubles this week. So we're only doing one a week, I'm sorry, one a day. And we're doing very light lifts this week. And then next week is where we really start really pulling back the yardage and really resting and really recovering and getting ready for the conference meet. And that resting couldn't come at a better time. This is the first week of classes. I'm sure the students are enjoying the little rest and being able to focus on academics again. Yeah, it's always nice in early January where there are no classes, no conflicts, nothing like that. And now, again, you have your eight o'clock classes where we have to try to get kids out early. So yeah, it definitely comes at a good time for us. Let's talk a little bit about the conference meet that you have coming up. We'll visit it more after this meet. But you have had some qualifiers. What is the meet that you have coming up against Arcadia do in terms of getting you ready for the conference? Well, there's two different things. And swimmers are very superstitious. So some kids don't like swimming their main events in the middle of a taper. So you kind of have to juggle what they're going to do. Some kids swim absolutely phenomenally well a week into their taper. And some kids just don't. And that's OK because one of our beliefs is you are where you need to be. And if you're swimming well that first week at Taper, then you're going to actually swim even better at the conference meet. And if you're not, then you're just not ready to swim fast yet. And in another two weeks, trust what we're doing, and you will swim fast. So it really depends on the individual. Well, Coach, we wish you the best of luck and all the individuals on the team in these meets that you have coming up. Thank you. He's John Stoltrager. I'm Joe Wamba. And this has been the John Stoltrager Show.