 Hello, welcome to the Dave Trumbo show presented by Buffalo Wild Wings. I'm Greg Royce joined by Stevenson head women's volleyball coach Dave Trumbo And coach you had kind of a light week last week had one conference match on Tuesday up at Albright Able to get everybody in and three nothing win Just discuss that and discuss a little bit about you know having a few days off to kind of recuperate for a big week ahead Well, we do this every year and it's always scary we went up and played Albright and And Played okay, and everybody got a chance to play so and that made it that made it good So then we actually had five days off. We did some team bonding on Wednesday, but they were off From volleyball they didn't play volleyball. So Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday And it's just like oh But most of the girls really appreciate that time some of them go home some of them catch up on sleep and school work and Just kind of get away from volleyball for a little bit because now we're trying to make us our stretch run And we have two more weeks the regular season before the conference playoffs And we have to be fresh and invigorated and ready to go out and play hard Yeah, I was the first practice back last night. How'd that go? Oh, what not bad? It was it was actually pretty good. I don't introduce themselves to each other but It went it went pretty well So we have two practices before Lebanon Valley, which is just a huge match on Wednesday Yeah, yeah, first let's talk about obviously got a very busy very big week coming up Let's start with that Lebanon Valley match obviously come big conference match at home team that took you to five sets last year Talk a little bit about that match. Yeah, well, they did take us to five last year and we were up to we were losing two to one so it was It was a rough match and we're thankful we get him at home this year and the way it's stacking up I believe that a win would put pretty much solidify first place for us. Yeah, if we can get it. So They are an up-and-down team. They can play incredibly. Well, and we're just hoping that doesn't happen when they come here on Wednesday But it's a big it's a big match for us, you know, and then, you know Everybody's talking about Thursday's match. Well, if we don't win Wednesday, right Thursday Thursday is absolutely meaningless if we cannot win on Wednesday Yeah, absolutely that Thursday match I'm John Hopkins, you know, National Ranking. They were 18th last week You know, not sure the poll comes out later this afternoon. I see you guys jumped back in the poll Yes, the first time in four years in number 25. I was talking a little bit about that I'd forgotten all about that somehow, but you know, it wasn't mean to be right. Well, it's it's just nice You know, it means absolutely nothing, you know, the rank the important ranking is the regional rankings Which I believe are gonna come out this week. I think today That's that's what seeds the NCAA tournament if we get a bit, you know, the coaches poll just means you're getting some respect from your peers So that's really nice to have and so the girls enjoy and so yeah, ask them I said, what does that mean? And that's what basically that's what they said, you know It's it's respect and the fact that our hard work and it's a nice thing to have your name in the top 25 Yeah, it's respected something to talk about, you know, probably something to talk about on the crew to trail You know, yes, it doesn't mean a whole lot. You said when comes in safety, correct But certainly back to the Hopkins match obviously should be two ranked teams going out obviously You know, as long as you take care of business on Wednesday, it could be critical in terms of talking about Potentially, you know and higher NCAA things like that. Yeah, that that is true I'm you know Hopkins is always on our schedule and thankfully this year we get them at our gym Hopkins is playing extremely well. They've only lost two matches all year and that was the first weekend. So they lost to Wittenberg who's who was at that is number one right now and they lost Holly Emery who was number four going this week. They had a bad week. So they're probably gonna drop but there's only two matches They've lost so We have absolutely nothing to lose Going in to play Hopkins is kind of like the junior Matt junior out of match a little bit You know our our goal if we would get a bid we'd like to get away from that four or five seed You know because then we have to play the number one seed at home If we happen to win the first round, which was not been able to do the last two years So the higher the seed in theory the opponent shouldn't be as tough But they're all tough and you get to the NCAA. Absolutely even the eight seeds obviously Oh, yeah, usually when they're conference or exactly what or whatever. So and then Saturday you hit the road You go to Rowan You play row and you play Stockton and I know Stockton's a team you have a little bit history with oh, yeah Very intense match here at home. Yes, it was fun. We got one of our Beach players She we were recruiting for beach because oh, I want to play indoor now too because she was an indoor player But once you saw that Stockton match because it was really feisty and very intense. So That's good for us. You know, we want to be able to play and it's in a neutral site and So the Stockton match will be be huge, but you know say say we Every match is important as far as seeding in the NCAA if we get a bit, you know And then if we don't win our conference tournament, you know, then we'll be in line for an at-large So every single match is important and we follow that up with Rowan and Rowan's playing much better this year And they've got some big wins against some good teams. So Saturday is going to be important, too Yeah, yeah, no days off on the schedule this time, right? Oh, no Mm-hmm. All right, coach. We wish you best of luck. We'll be here. Obviously Wednesday and Thursday We hope to see everyone, you know, I always will shimnasium for Dave trembo. I'm Greg Royce This has been the Dave trembo show presented by Buffalo Wildlings