 Welcome back to the Coach Clark show presented by Buffalo Wild Wings. Now with Stevenson Head Coach Clark, Clark Nyman. I'm a symmetry. So, Clark, we talked a few weeks ago about this heading into the second half of your season after the Diamond City Invitational winter training. What are now we're going into the 2020 Mac Championships? What are some of your goals and expectations for the team heading into the championships? As I explained kind of at the beginning of the year, the expectation for the team is just to get a little bit better and actually they're showing that they're getting a lot of it better. They're really strong right now. They feel really good and we're going into our resting cycles. So hopefully with some good recovery, some sleep and a little bit less yardage, they're going to do really well at Mac Championships. Now we talked a little bit about your taper pattern this year. What are you guys doing differently that you haven't done in the past in order to get them ready to rest and perform well? I can't tell you my secrets. Now this year we're doing something I call resting cycling. I don't know what the technical term for it is. I just know that going into these last two weeks, I'm doing a two days on one day off cycle where they work pretty hard for about two days and they take a full 48 hours of rest before they get back in and they go again. And I mean at the Diamond City Invitational going into that, I gave them one day off in the middle of the week and that seemed to work out really well. So coming into this week where we're about two weeks out, about 10 days out, this two on one off thing that goes through about three cycles. And I think that'll set us up really well for them to be ready to go for championships. Yeah, of course. Talk a little bit about the swimming schedule this year and how your specific schedule is going to prepare the team for the championships. Well there's one thing that Stevenson has that no other school has and that's the long winter. We were off in December, like the second week of December, and we didn't go back until this past week. And so it made for a really, really nice transition from fall into two days and hard winter training and then going into three weeks before championships. And the other thing I'm noticing around the conference is everyone had their last meet this past weekend. Our last meet was a week ago. So that gives us a little bit extra time to sharpen up. Really get our details down for our races to go into championships next week. Yeah, it's fast. Coming up soon. Talk a little bit about your lead swimmers heading into the Max Championships on both the men and women side. We're talking about Mel and Steven, right? Yes. They're both ready. I mean, in practice right now, they're feeling really good. We've been doing a lot of broken swims and just kind of see where they're at how they're feeling in the water. They're putting up some really big times right now. I'm actually really excited to see how they do. And talking to them about their championships, I've sat down with both of them. And they're excited. They're ready to go. They feel very confident. They feel they've done everything they need to do to this point. And they're ready to step up at championships and finish out their senior year with the band. Yeah, of course. Going on with that, Mel Mylam is the running champion in the 200 AM for the MAC conference. How is she preparing herself for her last time around at the MAC Championships to repeat that? She's focused on it. Like she tells me all the time that she's watching past year's videos to get motivation because she really likes the way that the announcer called it. And going into it, we've been talking about how it's been the same journey. Like the times going into championships are about the same. The preparation going into championships has been a little bit harder. And mindset-wise, she's ready to go. I think that she's going to step up this next weekend and put on a really big show. And I talked to her that no matter what the result at the end of the day, did you put in the work? Are you doing what you need to do rest-wise? And is this going to be a great cap to your senior year? She feels confident that that's what's going to happen. That's really good to hear. Well, I guess we'll catch up in a few weeks after the championships. Good luck with the rest of your season. Good luck at championships. I'm Aisin Ishii. This is Clark Nyman for the Coach Clark Show. Thank you.