 Hello and welcome to the Dave Trumbo show. I'm Joe Wamba, joined now with Dave Trumbo, head coach of the Beach Volleyball team. Coach, you guys traveled down to UNC Wilmington. Play some very tough teams all as a precursor for the Fiesta on Siesta Key. Just talk a little bit about how those matches went for you. Well, we play in all division ones. Our first match was against Caledad Charleston, who are getting votes for the top 15 in the country. And it just helps you learn so much about yourselves. And the same kind of shots, to be truthful, that would drop against maybe a D2 or D3 team. They don't drop against a D1 team. Those kids are pretty athletic. And they're big. So the speed of the game is a little bit different. I thought our kids really did well. Sammy Perillo and Kristen Brooks at number 1's, actually. They won a set. They played a really, really great set. And 1-1-1, we had some other close ones. But Caledad Charleston was pretty good. 6 foot 4 blocker. It's like she shades a lot more court than she was 5'10. A larger net front presence there, for sure. And then we played Coastal Carolina in the afternoon. That was a lot closer. At number 2's, Lauren Weaver, Katie Leffridge, won their pairs. So history made there. History made, because we've played some Division 1 club teams that are very, very good, but we've never beaten a pair in Division 1. That was NCAA team. And Katie and Lauren being able to do that. And then at number 3's, Grace Coleman and Jan Christensen, they lost 15-12 in the third. So they got close. Another close one. Yes. And Megan Ren and Darian Hillman at 4's, they got close. They lost 21-18, 21-19. And everybody else was in the high teens. So it was competitive. Shows you we're on the right track. We can compete with D1 teams. The next day we play UNC Wilmington, who are very good also. Yang Christensen and Grace Coleman at number 3's, again, got close 22-20 in one of the sets. But we'll move on this weekend to the Fiesta on the Siesta Key on the Gulf Coast of Florida for the Small College National Championship. Let's talk a little bit about that trip that you guys are going to make down there. It's going to be an awfully exciting match, a little bit different than what you've been doing this year. You're going to be playing three matches in one day on Saturday. How has the season that you've been having so far prepare you for this? Well, last weekend the great competition. We're not going to see D1 teams. It's all D2 and D3. There's 10 teams and it's pool play. So there's five teams in our pool and we'll play three of those four teams on Saturday. Two of them, while we're playing a team from San Diego who has been playing beach for five years. That'll be pretty competitive. And we're also playing Warner, who we did beat 4-1, but we're also playing Eckert, who we lost to 4-1. All those matches close. The 4-1 to Warner sounds like we killed him, well, we really didn't. It was very close. And the 4-1 to Eckert that we lost seems like that would not have been, but it really isn't. A couple points either way and we could have won 3-2. So that's three matches in the Florida sun. Definitely going to be warmer. The heat was an issue, not an issue. When you're playing D1 teams, the rallies are longer. You have to work really hard, even for points. There's not as many mistakes made. The rallies aren't short. Down in Florida, I'm not sure what the weather's going to be like. And from what I understand, it changes. This is still like up here, it changes every hour. So we'll play three matches on that Saturday and then early Sunday morning we'll play the fourth match of pool play. That will seed us for a single elimination tournament. So it's very possible we could play on Sunday. If you count the pool play game in the morning, if we get to the finals, three more matches. That could be four on Sunday. So they're going to be tuckered. I imagine they are, especially if a lot of the matches go to the three sets or hopefully you can get them taken care of in two. Is that the key to try to get out in front early or just get the W if you can? Well, you always want to get the W. But if you can do it in two, it's very difficult because when the other teams, their backs against the wall. Unless you are significantly better than the other team, it's tough to win in two. So you want to get done in two, especially when you have so many matches coming, but ultimately you want to get the W. There's a little bit more riding on these, I think, because there is not a team there that, oh my gosh. I mean, things happen and we could win, which does seem a little unbelievable, all these Florida schools and California schools. And here we are from Baltimore. And we're going to compete. We expect to win matches. Another person team I didn't mention is Huntington, which we beat there from Alabama. So we've got a good shot. Yeah, I would definitely believe that you guys have very strong possibilities. And you talk about these sets, like when somebody gets back into a corner, you've seen it even when the teams are, when you're practicing, our girls are playing against each other. They love each other and they're rooting for each other, but they compete. And they'll go into 18-19 scores on the third set. Yes, yeah. There's just some kind of mentality that you just don't give up. It's 19-15 or 19-16 and the game is 21. And you see kids come back because they know they're backs right up against the wall and they just can't let that ball drop. And that little extra effort to get the ball up when the game is depending upon it. Well, Coach, we wish you the best of luck this weekend. And those games will be broadcasted. The links are on our website. Yes, yes. So we're looking forward to watching some beach volleyball. We don't get to watch that too much. Right, and I think the streaming's not going to start until 11.30. Our first match is at 9.00. Our second match is at 12.00. That one should be streamed. I think it's an experiment. They have not done it much. But I think that our game at 12.00 and our game at 3.30 will be streamed. So we'll see. Well, definitely a test to experimenting with broadcasting Beach Volleyball. Last year was the first time we had a chance to do it. Yeah, we did it. We were able to do it. We were able to do it. So I definitely know their struggles. But Coach, all the same, good luck. And safe travels down south. Thanks, Joe. He's Dave Trumbo. I'm Joe Wamba, and this has been the Dave Trumbo Show.