 Hello and welcome to the John Stiltrager show presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm Greg Royce, joined with Stevenson Head Swimming Coach John Stiltrager. And Coach, it's the one year since the start of the year and probably since last year this time. We've been working towards and that's conference championships. So start tomorrow, Thursday evening, one session and then Friday, Saturday, Sunday. So how do you feel going into it? You're always a little bit nervous. Swimming is a little different than a lot of other sports in that we work towards really one meter of the year unlike other sports that might work hard a couple of days and then relax a couple of days to win a game or a meet. We work from September all the way through for this one meet only. Yeah, absolutely. That's what we've kind of talked about all year, kind of built up this moment. So obviously you've had a couple of weeks since your last dual meet. Done your shave, done your taper. Are kids ready to go? Are kids ready to go? They're a bit nervous. You can see the changing them from mid-January where they're tired and beat down to now where they're kind of excited in the pool and their attitudes are much better and you can see that the rest and the taper really start to take hold. Yeah, we've talked about a little bit like last year, kind of surprised some people finishing fourth on the women's side. Probably not going to sneak up on anybody this year but at the same time I think there's still maybe a little bit of an element of surprise that maybe you can shock some people with your performance this weekend. Yeah, we're going to have to show them I think this year that we weren't just a one-year wonder in that what we did last year wasn't a fluke and that's our goal is to go up there again this year and show them that we're for real and that we're going to put up some fast times. Yeah, absolutely. So what are you kind of looking for going into the meet? Obviously you've kind of looked at where everybody swam over the course of the year so what are your, not predictions, but kind of thoughts of where the team could finish? More on the women's side, obviously the men's side, more where individuals could play, it's more on the women's side, where do you think you could follow the team? Again, I think we'll be right in the same area that we were in this past year like fourth to fifth or sixth but you know I guess what we're looking to do is set the tone early with the first event of the day or the first event of the meet which is the medley relay. Last year we got second, you know we're hoping to repeat if not do better than that next year or this year and again really set the tone let the kids know that yes tapers here and that we're ready to swim fast. I think that's the big thing we did last year was, again we surprised people with our medley relay. This year I don't think we're going to surprise anyone with it but I think we want to surprise them with the time that we do. Yeah, absolutely. Obviously getting out to strong start in any multi-day events is huge. Yeah, I mean again setting the tone early is what's really important and again I think we had the chance to do that early on Friday night or Thursday night and then really start taking the individual events on Friday. Alright coach, we wish you the best of luck this weekend and we'll recap it all next week. Great, thank you very much. Alright, for John Soltrager, I'm Greg Royce. This has been the John Soltrager Show.