 Hello and welcome to the Eric Camineca show presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm Greg Royce joined by Stevenson track and field head coach Eric Camineca. Coach, before we talk about last weekend's meet, a little bit more good news last middle last week New regional rankings came out and the men were first on the met on On that poll and the women remained in second. So I'm obviously very excited first time You've been number one. Just talking about what it means, you know for the program to achieve You know that that level of success. Yeah, it's really exciting for us You know it always comes at an opportune time whenever the rankings come out I'm always out recruiting So that's one of the first things I can share with a lot of the coaches that we're out there recruiting With is that you know our program is ranked number one continues to show to growth I'm thinking I'm really surprised about is you know the men's team especially just handle it Like it was just another day and you know we have bigger ambitions of the program You know we want to be top 25 in the country and you know our goal is to really win a conference championship this year So, you know the guys aren't getting holding on or putting too much value into that number one ranking But you know I just they should be proud of it. Yeah, definitely something that we worked hard towards Yeah, absolutely something proud of but the same time obviously it helps to recruiting exactly things like that But at the same time, it's not the ultimate goal exactly and then Saturday You guys went to Susquehanna place. You've ranked quite a bit over the last two or three years and I'm pretty solid Overall me I'm just talking about you have some of the top performances on Saturday. Yeah You know we haven't this is the first time we've been up to Susquehanna this year Kind of shows the growth of a program trying to find different meets You know very average day for us, but you know, we I think we did a good job Deon Hicks and Kimberly Hammond are really showing their dynamic deal The two of them could probably win every single event that they do in the conference I think the two of them are going to be competing against each other for athlete of the year in the conference and on the men's side You know again, you know, it just had a really good day Langston the sprinters had a really great day 4x4 team so you know a lot of solid performances across the board nothing that stood out You know, we're hoping that going into this weekend is that we're gonna get some of those big numbers on the board Yeah, yeah, again like to talk about the you know we talked about this all year It's just seemingly the depth and you know last year's like you guys were really well known for the sprints and Relays, you know now as you've got either she've got Langston, you know guys they've kind of carried over from cross-country season and You know the distance events the field events just that overall strength is much much better than it has really time for you guys Yeah, absolutely. It's just it's really great to see you know It makes it tough when we're traveling to these meets because we have to leave some people home And we're just so deep and you know, we're only allowed certain a number in an event So it's really it's almost like putting together a puzzle every single weekend when it comes to trying to figure out Who's running what yeah, absolutely, so So looking ahead I was this week, you know as you start to gear up towards max We're looking for this week. So we're looking for big-time performances this week We're taking about 20 athletes up to the Armory in New York We were there last year ECACs are gonna be there again this year So hopefully when we come out of this weekend, you know, we're gonna have a couple of top You know 15 marks in the country top 17 marks in the country by both some of our men and our women You know, we sat Demian right this week just to give him some rest going into this weekend So hopefully he'll have some big-time jumps some of these 200 runners Matt Riggins, Kendall Belzer, Vlad You know, these guys are really looking to get some top quality performances out there as well Yeah, obviously the Armory whenever you go the Armory in New York It's obviously, you know big-time me and you know usually some tough competition. Exactly All right coach will issue and your team the best of luck this week and we'll talk to you next week great Thank you for Eric Camadeca. I'm Greg Royce. This has been the Eric Camadeca show