 Welcome to the Toddy Korba show presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm Sam Murray, joined now with Stevenson Women's Soccer Head Coach, Toddy Korba, and Coach. Maybe not the area that you would expect it heading into the year. A lot of injuries this year, but I think one of the words, and we probably talked about it previously, is resilient. Your team was pretty resilient this year. Talk about the season as a whole. Yeah, I think you're right, a lot of injuries. But, you know, season as a whole, I think, you know, we have a lot that we want to do with this program, certainly on the field and off the field. And I think we've spent really the last year talking about how to put that all together. And I think that, you know, what we want to do is be something that's, be a program that's consistently striving for excellence and not necessarily a team that kind of has a good season and then maybe an off season and kind of up and down. So, you know, we've really been working to put a lot of those building blocks in place. And so I think this group has done a remarkable job in really putting a lot of those building blocks in place. And so I think in that respect, I think it was a great year for us in terms of our personality as a team and discipline and commitment and, you know, our work rate and kind of what all of that's going to look like. And with regard to this actual team and our results, certainly it's not good enough and it's not where we want to be. And, you know, I don't think that, well, I'm sure that not one of us is kind of pleased with the results. But I think that was kind of the one piece that we were ultimately missing, you know, were those wins and, you know, there are many, many things that we need to work on. But I think it's taken a little bit of reflection and a little bit of time. But I think that we feel like overall this was a step in the right direction for us. Yeah, when it's all said and done and you kind of look back on the year and look at the results of the nine losses, six of them were one goal games. So you're close in pretty much every game this year. Is that something to hold your head high on? I think so. And, you know, there's so many things that you can look at and we're careful not to go with kind of excuses. But, you know, we had four season-ending injuries. We had an average, I think, of six players out per game. And just about a quarter of our season was against NCAA tournament teams and all those one-goal losses. So, you know, it all kind of points to we were pretty close all season. But we need to be better than that. So, yeah, you know, I think many of the injuries we had were some of our goal scores. So, you know, could that have been different? Possibly. But, you know, we knew that results were going to be hard to come by. Soccer is a sport that you have to have a bounce go your way every now and again. And I don't think we had one bounce go our way this entire season. So, yeah, I think, again, a tremendous amount to build on. And I think we're losing two seniors and two exceptional seniors and two exceptional people. But we have a really strong group returning and they've got a lot to work on. And I think they're committed to doing it. Yeah, as you turn the page here, you do only lose two players. Now, Granite, you lose Sam Hooker's, you know, a leader on and off the field has started every single game since she stepped on Stevenson's campus. But you've returned everyone, essentially. Is that something to build upon? For sure. And, you know, both Sam and Jess are going to be difficult to replace. And I don't think we'll be looking to replace them, but maybe, you know, have other people step up in their own ways. But I think with this group of returners, you know, it's our job. I think as coaches to inspire them and push them and demand more from them. And it's their job to do the work. And so, you know, they know the things that we feel we need to work on in this off season. And I think they're committed to doing that. So, I mean, right now we've got 27 players returning and we've got a good number of 2019's committed that we think could be impact players. So, you know, you hope and think that maybe combining all of that, those nine, you know, tight games that we had, those six one goal losses and those ties, maybe this is enough to get us over that hump. But, you know, all we can do for now, those are the results that we can't control. So, you know, what we have to do now I think is just continue to work on, you know, the things that we need to improve and we have to be better than we were this year. So now's the time to really do that. Well, Coach, we wish you the best of luck in the off season, spring ball coming up. And we'll see you back here next year. Good. Thank you. For Head Coach Tati Korba, I'm Sam Murray and this has been the Tati Korba Show.