 Welcome back to the Tracy Johnson Show presented by Buffalo Wild Wings. I'm Sam Murray joined now with Stevenson women's ice hockey head coach Tracy Johnson and coach before we dive back into the regular season. Let's first talk about the unique trip that your team got to take over winter break. Team went to Germany, played three games in Germany, won in Italy. Talk about that experience. It was definitely a once in a lifetime opportunity to get the chance to go over there as a team, play some hockey, see some sites. I mean, it was just surreal almost to just be in the areas that we were, the Bavarian countryside, not only where the site's just beautiful, but the opportunity to see some historical things while we were there. But the best part was really just watching the team enjoy it together and take it all in and just at any given time I could look at either any of their faces and that was just like this look of like awe and so I just that was pretty special to get to experience that with the group that we have and you know, we were able to wear some castles and I think the trip just went as smooth as it possibly could when you have a group full of 40 people. I was expecting a lost stick bag or something to go awry, but the team was great. They were flexible with the schedule and we just really enjoyed being there together as a group. Diving back into regular season, you open the new year with a 5-1 victory over Wilkes. You had four different players record multi-point games, including your fifth year senior, Kalin, what meant she has, she had two goals to assist in that game. Talk about her play this year. She leads your team in points and goals. She's really stepped it up in the production category and I think that she really takes pride in having that be her role as we look to her for that offensive spark and putting the puck in the net and when we need someone to find the back of the net, she has a tendency to do that, which we are grateful for and we'll continue to lean on her for the remainder of the year. As you get into the second half of the year, who else are you looking forward to to kind of step up? You had freshman Nicky Kendrick who had a big first half and then senior Madi Ricci also had a goal and an assist and that game on Saturday. Yeah, I'm really looking forward to seeing, you know, just that senior class in general, get an opportunity to just kind of step up and enhance their roles for the second half. You know, looking at a Nicky Kendrick who has already, you know, done a decent job producing. I think that she's going to continue with that trend and we certainly hope she does. But even giving some of the, you know, younger players on the team an opportunity to kind of show what they can do now that they have a semester under their belt. We like to talk all the time about how you're not a first year anymore now that you have the second semester is over and we're getting into the second half and it'll be an opportunity to see some of them step up and really thrive in their roles. Getting back into conference play, right now you're sitting in six in the final spot in the UCHE. What do you have to do the second half of the year to make the playoffs? Well, we talked the other day as a team about big picture. Like, here's where we're at. We've got to certainly take it one game at a time and focus on winning the games that we have to win to get into playoffs. And I think that the team has an understanding of what we need to do and take it one day at a time, one practice at a time, one shift at a time so that we can attack each game. Not even that we want to win, but that we need to win. Well, coach, we wish you the best of luck this weekend and moving forward. And we'll see you back here in a couple of weeks. Thanks so much for head coach, Tracy Johnson. I'm Sam Murray and this has been the Tracy Johnson show.