 Hello and welcome into the John Stoltrager show. I'm Joe Wamba joined with John Stoltrager head coach of the men's and women's swimming programs And coach it's been a month off since your last competition. You got Messiah coming up It's been a long time that you got to get in the pool and work with your swimmers and get them ready for these Meets coming up. Yeah, it's been it's been a long month. The kids have been in the water We actually stayed the week after finals We started doubling then then they actually got a whole five days off And we're back here on the 28th and and started doubling again And that's what we've been doing swim in twice a day almost every single day lifting three times a week The kids are definitely itching to get back into the competition pool and see if this hard work is actually paid off And you mentioned before we start a role in that sometimes have been improving from their previous meets in this stretch of Non-competition the training competition training stretch that you've had going on. What is the improvement been like? The kids have been really working hard and it's it's always nice to see Like somebody do an in-season best which we actually had two kids do an in-season best during one of our training sessions and One of our big mantra is one of our big philosophies is to learn how to swim fast when you're tired And I know it sounds cliche, but it actually isn't it's actually something you have to learn how to do And I think through these last three weeks like really working hard Expecting the kids to swim fast when I ask them to swim faster They're actually starting to figure that out and again, it is a process and it's something that They have to learn and again two kids doing in-season best in practice is just I mean, that's that's amazing And it's you know, it gives everyone a little more hope saying okay I think although we're really tired we can swim really fast at the meat coming up And let's talk about that meat coming up. You've talked about the improvement that you've had What do you expect going into this meat? The swimmers are tired like you mentioned, but what are you expecting as far as? improvements from their last meat, which was a month ago, right? You know, you never know from from individual to individual some kids respond really well to it Some kids, you know might not swim as well. What we're looking to do is I mean, we're swimming messiah who won the conference last year We're looking to challenge them in individual events We definitely don't have the firepower to you know win a duel meet against them either guys or girls but I want to challenge them and I want them to swim hard not be afraid of of You know going past what you think you can do and and really pressing some of the messiah kids and giving them good races To let them know that we're here and one thing that we do want to touch on is The Mac conference meet you're inside of a month away from that now What what does this meet do in terms of preparing you for that meet? It just shows the kids where they're at It really helps them since they haven't swum in a month helps them You know figure out what we need to do in the next couple weeks before we do our Our taper which you know will start in in about two weeks. So, you know the kids always count down the taper It's a it's a great time for them We back off on our work and and really start doing some small sprinting stuff and and start to rest and relax Which you know they deserve after the month that they've been through well coach We wish you the best of luck in this meet up at Messiah and safe travels up there. Thank you very much. He's John Stoltz trigger I'm Joe Wamba and this has been the John Stoltz trigger show