 Hello and welcome to the coaches corner. I'm Joe Wamba. I'm joined now with cross-country head coach Dave Burdan and coach Over the weekend. He had the Shannon Henredi Invitational a big event that we have on campus and memory of a real close friend On the cross-country women's team Can you talk a little bit about how that event went for us? We had some good finishes and some really tough Tough conditions. Yes, definitely The man actually won the race and the women's team got second The conditions were definitely very difficult So I had to have a little meeting before the race and tell them that I really wanted them to go out conservative that first Two or three miles and then work their way up and they all did a really good job of following the race plan And it paid off and Kelly finishes first and Langston on the men's side Talk a little bit about their performances throughout that meet. Yeah, so I was really pleased It was the first time this year that we raced the full distance with the 8k for men and 6k for woman and it was kind of just to see to see where they were and Due to the conditions we really can't look at the times because of how hot it was and how humid it was but They followed the game plan and were patient and both were not leading halfway through the race and ended up winning Right and then this weekend You head out to Rowan and a larger set meet. There's gonna be a lot more competition there And totally different weather conditions Can you talk a little bit about what you may expect into this meet coming up this weekend? Yeah, so I'd say this weekend's our first time that we're really gonna test ourselves and see See how good everybody really is and and how far everyone's come along It's not gonna be as hot and I'm not gonna hold them back as much as I have in the past two meets early on in the race So it's the first opportunity that they're gonna really be able to to race the full distance great and Just revisiting back to this The Shannon-Henredi imitation. Oh, can you talk a lot about? What that may mean to the the members on the team to be running into an event? about such a close friend on on our campus in the nursing department and in the cross-country team just talk about How that affected the the runners. Yeah, so a lot of the runners is especially the upperclassmen They just I mean never remember Shannon some of the runners that were able to come back alumni and speak at the race Got to tell give everybody kind of a little bit more insight as to who Shannon was But she was an athlete on our team graduating 2014 and then she was actually a volunteer assistant coach for us in the fall of 2014 so she was here all the time just a Great positive presence at all times and just really I mean it's so they knew what they were right and and they They they met maybe expectations, you know You want to perform the way we performed in in a meet of that magnitude? Definitely, they definitely had that in the back of the mind wonderful and thank you coach again for your time He's Dave Burdan. I'm Joe Wamba and this has been the coaches corner