 Hello and welcome into the Kathy Rayleigh Show. I'm Joe Wamba, joined now with Kathy Rayleigh, head coach of the women's lacrosse team and coach you guys head on down to Florida, play a two game set. Just talk a little bit about what you guys learned out of that trip. Sure, I mean, was fully committed to six, I think six or seven days straight of lacrosse. We had a great game Sunday. This young group is really starting to get very cohesive. They're starting to go for a lot of different things with creativity and they're starting to show a little bit of style, which I really, really like. Great win against Vassar on Sunday. Tough loss against Skidmore on Thursday. But it's hard for me to get mad because I see them trying to do these great things and they're going for things and they're zipping the ball to the inside and we're just a little bit short on the catch or the pass is a little bit off. So it's hard for me to get mad as a coach of a young team to say, hey, don't do that because I want them getting creative because I think it bodes well for our future. Well, yeah, let's talk about that future. I mean, if you have such a young team, what does this type of trip do in terms of building chemistry between the players? Well, I think it's very, very important for them to get to know everybody. And one of the things I do, whether they hate it or love it on spring break is we ride vans with different people every day. We're in rooms with different people. I don't really give them a chance just to hang out with their smaller group of friends. It's about getting to know the team and I think that does wonders for chemistry and wonders for just getting to know people off the field. We're in an interesting position right now and one of the things we have to figure out this week before we see Messiah is we have 66% of the scoring is being put up by seniors. So we've got two, Brady here and Olivia Montero are they're just crushing it goal-wise and we have contributions here and there from other attackers, but that's gonna be real easy to zero in on. So part of spring break and this week coming up, I think we're really gonna focus in on making sure that our goal-scoring is a little more balanced. Is that something that you guys have learned from this trip or it's been the trend for over the season, I guess? I think we started off trying to make that happen but I think just the dominance of those two goal-scores in Brady and Monty have just risen to the point that no matter what defenders, Olivia Montero is drawing the best defender of every team we see and she's still putting up four goals a game or five goals a game. So we say bring it on to whoever. She just is gonna continue to get mentally tougher and tougher as she plays battles against really good, the country's top defenders oftentimes. Brady's really come into her own, she had a great spring break I think. Mallory Davila putting up goals just about every game now, which is awesome. I think we're really pleased with that. Tori Bruno's another one. Keely Bunce as a freshman is putting up several point games, game after game after game. So it's coming from all over the place but I just would like to see it a little more balanced if we could. So a lot of excitement and optimism headed there. Sure. Let's look forward now, you touched on it, the Messiah game on Saturday. You guys open up with the quote unquote team to beat in the conference. Is that what you want? You wanna open up against a team like this or would you rather have a couple of other opponents under your belt before you face them? Listen, I think we play one of the toughest schedules in division three. If we're not ready for them now then we'll get them again in April. I think that one of the reasons I schedule so tough out of conference is to give our team the best shot at winning the Mac. Ultimately our goal is to get the NCAA tournament. It doesn't matter if you're seven and seven or if you're 14 and no. At the end of the day you have to win your conference. And I think we play teams like Salisbury and like Gettysburg and like Washington College. Even into the Skidmore's I think that we play these teams, Salisbury is another one, to prepare ourselves to do the best that we can against in conference opponents. I think Messiah plays a pretty tough schedule. I don't think anybody else in our conference plays the kind of schedule that we do. Well coach I hope the schedule pays off and that all the work and things that you've learned from this Florida trip will pay off in that Messiah game. We wish we could have brought the sun back. That didn't happen but we brought the snow back unfortunately. That's all right, we'll deal with the snow. We'll get the sun later on in the season. It's first day of spring, we gotta hope. She's Kathy Rayleigh, I'm Joe Wamba and this has been the Kathy Rayleigh Show.