 Welcome to the Kathy Rayleigh show. I'm Joe Wombo joined now with Kathy Rayleigh head coach of the women's lacrosse team. Coach, you guys are scoring a lot of goals now. So offense is definitely clicking. What's been the difference from the beginning of the season? And how do you keep it rolling? Well, I'm so happy. 39 goals in two games is exactly the kind of play that we want to see. Olivia Montero, fifth player in program history to have 100 goals and 50 assists. It's one thing to be a goal scorer. It's another thing to be the one dishing out so that somebody else can score goals to have a player that combines with both of those superpowers really makes us a threat. I'm just happy to see so many different people go to goal as well. We are several deep in the over 10 goal category. And that makes us really hard to defend and that's what you want out of your team in April. Yeah, definitely at the beginning of the season you talked about some balance scoring to be looking for that and you guys have matched that goal. Also, offensively, the freshmen on the team getting their starting roles are really clicking. How has this been for their development? Well, overall, I think you Mallory, Davila, Carly Bose, they're starting to have a little more confidence in going to goal. Playing against a tough Salisbury defense, playing against a tough Gettysburg defense early on, I think they were getting bumped a little bit, making that transition from high school to college. Now that we're half the way, little more than half the way in through the season, probably two thirds of the way in through the season, now they're used to the contact, they're used to the college game and having them really contribute, freshman wise, it's been great. Keely Bunce came to us, a great assister and a great finisher. So to see that, that certainly was not a surprise either. I'm just really, I'm really happy with how they're clicking together. When they move the ball well, they're just, you know, they're just a triple threat everywhere. Right, definitely. I mean, you know, the senior class can get a lot of goals going and you talked about them being, you know, a wheeling and dealing type of offense and now the freshmen are definitely learning your system a little bit and clears are being accomplished a little bit easier as well. As you guys move into the rest of the season, only one game this week, how important is this game headed into the stretch to make a long playoff run? Well, it's very, very important and there are a couple of reasons for why it's very important. I think Alvernia plays a great, a little bit different style offense that we've seen. So it's gonna challenge our defense. We are off next weekend and then we don't have, I think we see Albright next week and then we have the following weekend as our alumni game. So playing this week and playing Albright next week are gonna be absolutely huge in our preparation for the conference tournament. We're gonna really need to buckle down some drilling and practice days. We've gotta come up with a few more plays because we're gonna see a few different styles of defense in these next two games. So I think we're ready to practice hard this week and make some changes and get even better. The weather is certainly cooperating to make being outside and playing lacrosse a whole lot of fun. It makes those 6 a.m. practices a little bit more. 6 a.m., we're halfway done by 6 a.m. I'm not even thinking about waking up. You're nowhere close. Well, Coach, I appreciate your time this week and good luck this week. She's Kathy Rayleigh. I'm Joe Wamba and this has been The Kathy Rayleigh Show.