 Hello and welcome into the John Stoltrager show. I'm Joe Wamba joined now with Women's Swimming Coach of the Year, John Stoltrager. Congratulations, Coach, first of all. Thank you very much. And congratulations on a meet well done. A lot of records going down at the conference meet. Yeah, we had a great meet. I don't know if I could have asked for anything better than what we actually did. The girls broke 16 of the 19 records that we had. And the boys broke three relay records and two individual records. So all in all, it was just a great performance. And just for the individuals on the team to have the type of performance that you expected of them, they expected of themselves and to meet those expectations. Yeah, it was great. It validated everything we did all year long. I asked them to train hard and to swim fast when you're tired. And they kept on hearing that mantra over and over and over again. And I just asked them to trust me this year and make sure that they do what I asked them to do and things will work out. And again, I'm shaking my head because it was just a great meet and we swam lights out fast. And I said this before that I think that we surprised some people, but I'm not sure we surprised ourselves. We kind of knew what we could do. And we believe that the training that we do are going to produce these results. And they really did. And you have a couple of those swims that were just out of this world crazy fast. But for the most part, we swam as we thought we would, which is fast. Let's talk about the first event of the meet. You guys come in second in the 4 by 200 individual medley relay. That's an awesome accomplishment right there out the gates. Yeah, it was great. Again, we knew what we could do. I don't think anyone else really did. And the most satisfying thing is probably beating some of the teams that beat us during the year. We swam Arcadia and they beat us and we swam wider and they relayed beat us. And then to come back and turn around and beat both those teams, along with everyone else in the conference other than Maasai, it was a great way to start to meet. And I think the kids saw that event and said, OK, we're here. We're ready to swim fast. And it sends a message out the gate to the other competitors that Stevenson's here and we're going to stay. Yeah, and again, I think it was a precursor to how they did. Because if you look at that medley relay, Colby won the 100 back. Jules got second in the 100 breast. You had Izzy get third in the two fly and you had Mel get first in the two back. So I mean, even though she swam the free event, the free leg on it, again, it was a great precursor to how the meet was going to go. And the men have followed up with a really strong performance as well. Yeah, I mean, we had two butterflyers go sub-54, which they've never done before. Zach actually made the finals in the two fly and went 158, which is just, I mean, that's eight seconds faster than he's ever gone. He was two 100s away from getting third place, which would have been great. But again, Steven had a nice meet in his fly and his 100 free and Jack had a great two breast. So I mean, again, they broke three relay records and two individual records, which, again, is what you're shooting for. And as we look back at those goals and keys to success for the season from that very first video, a lot of them were checked off. Yeah, I mean, we did everything that we wanted to do, except for possibly making a B cut and getting to nationals. I mean, everything other than that, I think we accomplished. And we sat down at the beginning of the year, each of the kids, and set up our goals. And I think if we go back and look at them, which we will because we'll have ended the season meetings, we pretty much accomplished everything that everyone has set out to do this year. Well, coach, again, congratulations on all the accomplishments at the Mac meet, and of course, winning the women's swimming coach of the year. Congratulations. Thank you very much. He's John Stoltzrager. I'm Joe Wamba. This has been the John Stoltzrager show.