 Hello and welcome to the John Stilltrigger Show, presented by Buffer O'Lowell. I'm Greg Royson, but I've seen Head Coach John Stilltrigger. Coach, I've seen a couple weeks ago at the back championship, and overall pretty successful meet. One of them will play six. I had a couple individual events, and she's kind of taken us through that, how the meet went for you. It was a great meet. We swam really, really well. I think we started things off the first night with a relay win over Messiah and the two-meter relay. We just missed the conference record by a content of a second, and I really think that set the tone for the entire weekend. After that, things just kind of snowballed, and the next day Mel only won the 2-i-m. The following days are probably one of our strongest days with the hundreds of strokes where Jules got third in the 100 breast. We had Colby take second by two 100s of a second in the 100 back with Mel following a third, and Izzy getting a third place in her 2-i-m, or in her 100 back. It was a great weekend. Yeah, absolutely. Obviously, to finish six, you know, some of the, you know, obviously, it's tough, you've got smaller teams, you don't have to depth, maybe some of the teams to finish. I mean, you had to finish six, it was a great accomplishment. Obviously, the coaches, they congratulate you, you've been coaching me for the second time in three years, but I think a lot of that is a testament to how hard the kids work day in and day out. Yeah, I agree. I mean, Coach Adir is a great thing. It's very humbling, you know, to be selected by the coaches, you know, and everyone's at the meet, so, you know, you get recognized in front of everyone, which is great, you know, but, and I've always said that it should be, like, coaching staff of the year instead of Coach Adir, because it does truly take a village. And, you know, my grad assistant did a great job this year, and Jules did a great job with the kids, and even MC, you know, with her, you know, our kids left three days a week, and she has a lot of attitude and her enthusiasm really helps the team out. And again, so, you know, getting coached a year is great, but it really does take a lot of people to get that done. Yeah, absolutely. Obviously, no head coach in any sport is working by themselves with their assistants since they're at the division, they're training staff, administration. It all takes, like I said, it takes a village to have any successful program in any sport. And again, you know, I think you hit the nail right on ahead, with also the kids. You know, obviously, they're the ones putting in the work, but they're accepting of what you're asking them to do, and they're following you, and just believing that things will work out in the end, and it does take a leap of faith for them. And, you know, to see it work out where everyone seems really, really fast, and, you know, to get recognized as a school is kind of a cool thing. Yeah, absolutely. Obviously, you lose, really, you see your classes, really your first class is kind of, you have a lot of stuff, but you have some returners coming back as well. They'll continue to have their practice going forward. Yeah. You know, we do lose a bulk of our team and a lot of our leadership, but, you know, you hope for the sophomores and the juniors to kind of take on a role of leader for the freshmen that are coming in, you know, and just have them, you know, let the freshmen know, believe in what we're doing and the process works, and you just need to, you know, do what we ask you to do and how we ask you to do it, and good things will happen. Yeah, absolutely. That kind of culture's been established, saying this is how we do things, and this is the level that we want to be at. You know, it's like a sense of sort of returners to kind of part that of some of the new covers next year. Yeah, and I think that's how it will go. You know, the freshman that we had this year, you know, did very well at the conference meet, and, you know, our sophomores and juniors did extremely well. So, you know, it is a learning process, but, you know, it's helped out by, you know, the upper classmen just telling them to trust what we do and good things will happen. Yeah. All right, coach. Well, again, congratulations on a great season, and, you know, thanks for your time this year, and we'll chat again in the fall. Great. Thank you very much. All right. For John Stoltzberger, I'm Greg Royce. This has been the John Stoltzberger Show.