 Hello and welcome to the Dave Radan Show presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm Greg Royce, joined by Stevenson Cross Country head coach Dave Radan and coach seasons about a month into the season now, a little bit longer, considered pre-season. Just kind of talk about how, obviously, you've competed a couple of times, so I've obviously had a couple of weeks out of training, just talk about how the season's gone so far. It's gone really well, especially when I look back and compare it to last year and the year before. We did things a little different this year. We had two lower key meets early on and then took a three-week break before this weekend, but everybody across the board is way ahead of where they were last year at this time, so it's really exciting. Yeah. Yeah, you talked about the two meets. Obviously, the Mustang Sampeade was opening weekend of school. That was very low key. And then the shit at Henry Invitational, that was more, obviously, an official Mac championship preview meet, but obviously we had a lot of teams from the Mac here with us hosting the conference championship in October, so you kind of got to see how you stacked up against the rest of the conference, and that went pretty well, especially on the men's side. Yeah, so I mean, we had several teams from the conference, and the defending champion on the men's side, Masiah was there, and the men were actually able to beat them by a few points, and I wasn't really expecting that to happen that early in the year, so I feel like that's a good sign for later. And the woman, I mean, we didn't run everybody yet, just we have some people coming back from injury, but I think we're still in a good place with where they left off as well. Yeah, obviously a couple stand-up performers on both sides for the men, Langston Gash went out and won both those meets, and it was actually a national run of the week, the first week, then Pat Watson again coming out strong as well. I'm just talking about the performance of those two, kind of building on their performance last year. Yeah, so Langston, for the past four years, has kind of been the guy that everyone's been chasing, and he's just a good leader, and good motivation for Pat and the rest of the guys to kind of work up and get with him, because I know Pat was up there with him at the end of the year last year, but like I said earlier, I mean, even though Pat's not up with Langston right now, everybody on the team, I mean, all their workout times and races are well ahead of where they were last year at this time. Yeah, and then the women's side, you know, Choldola, she's been, and then Mikaela Sabo is another one that freshmen just come in and run pretty well, and we talked about her a little bit in the pre-season that she's never really run cross country, she's only run track. Yes, so the first two meets of the season were Mikaela's first two cross country races, and they went really well, and I think every time she does one, she's going to learn more, so I'm really excited to see what she can do this weekend, and then Cholda's been doing well, CJ, Emily, I mean, it's just a great group, and then we are bringing back Kelly this weekend, so we're excited to kind of see where she is, but she's not going to run completely all out this week, but... Right, obviously build towards the end of October in the conference meet at NCA, so... Yeah, definitely. You mentioned, I talked with Solisway this week, and then obviously a couple other big meets coming up at the beginning of October for both teams. Yeah, so the weekend after next, we take the women's team to the Disney cross country invitation, which they're really excited about that. They get to run on, I guess, the Disney wide world of sports down there. At the complex. Yeah, and I remember if it's a golf course, but it's part of the complex down there, and then the men have that week off, and then they go to Rowan the following week. Yeah, and that Rowan meet, we've talked about that in the past, is a lot of the top teams, not only from our region, but for some of the other regions, so you really get a good sense of how you stack up in the region and nationally as well. Yeah, so that's going to be a really important meet for the men, especially with the at-large process later to get into nationals. Last year, there were teams from the south region, I think the central region of Great Lakes, Midwest, the teams came from kind of all over to go to that meet. Yeah, so obviously that'll be a good test, you know, about two weeks before the conference championship to see, like you said, for that at-large process and to see two weeks stack up. Definitely. All right coach, well, you know, we wish you and your team the best of luck over the next few weeks, and we'll chat right before the conference championship. Sounds good, thanks Greg. All right, for Dave Burdan, I'm Greg Royce. This has been the Dave Burdan Show.