 Hello, and welcome to the John Stiltrigger Show presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm Greg Royce, and I'm joined by Stevenson's swimming head coach, John Stiltrigger. And coach, you opened up your season two Saturdays ago up at Weiner, your dual-meat schedule. Just take us through that and how that went overall. The meet went really well. The strange thing about swimming is we're not really always really concerned about the overall result of wins and losses. It's more the individual swims that you had, and the kids went really well. I looked at their times based off of last year's results, and you know, every single kid swam faster than they did the year before at the same exact meet, which puts us ahead of schedule. And we actually also had Jules Burnett had a lifetime best in the 53 first meet of the year, which is unheard of. So I'd say things are going pretty well, and the meet went extremely well. Yeah, that's what I was going to ask about is, you know, obviously, like you said, you build towards the end of the season, towards the conference championships, and hopefully with a bit of luck, you know, NCAAs for some individuals. And it sounds like you're happy with where you were at this point this year compared to where at that point this point a season ago. Yeah, I think we're, we build from year to year, you know, the kids are, you know, most of them are in their second or third year in the program. And I think we, we started out a little harder than we did last year and, and the kids, again, embrace what we do and, and believe in what we do. And, and the results showed, you know, at Weiner where, again, you know, we had some of our kids, the girl who won the Hunter back, you know, she went four seconds faster this meet than she did this time last year. Yeah, I mean, that's quite a jump. I mean, I'm not even a swimming person. I know that's quite a big jump, you know, especially, you know, year over year. So that's, that's certainly encouraging. Shifting gears a little bit this week, you go, you have a home meet during homecoming, I mean, host Goucher, Frostberg, and Hood, yes. And so what are you looking for going into that meet, being the first meet at home, getting a swim in front of friends and family? It should be a good meet. It's homecoming. It's the first time we've ever swam at home, on homecoming. You know, McDonough is a very fast pool. We're very familiar with the pool. So I'm, I'm looking for some good times and, and the meet should be competitive with all of us. Last year, we beat Hood and Goucher and lost to Frostberg by it, you know, one point. So I would fully anticipate that, you know, the meet be that close again this year. Yeah. And you think it's a kind of turning, not turning point, but kind of a milestone that you are having a home meet during homecoming, that you're a part of the homecoming facilities, like with football and soccer and, you know, all the other, quote unquote, team sports are a bit more established. Yeah, you know, and again, I think we were, we're starting to establish ourselves as one of those teams. We won a couple of meets at the, or a couple of events at the conference meet last year, which, you know, was, was awesome for us. And again, I think we're starting to build that, that structure and, and, you know, that the history that, that's required for Stevenson and, and again, I think this was a big step getting the, the homey to homecoming. All right, coach, well, thanks for your time. Best of luck on Saturday, and we'll see you over there. Okay, thanks. All right, for John Stiltrager, I'm Greg Royce. This has been the John Stiltrager show presented by Buffalo Wildlings.