 Welcome to the Dave Trumbo show. I'm Joe Wombo, joined now with Dave Trumbo, head coach of the Beach Volleyball team. And coach, unfortunately, it's going to be the last time that we talk for this season. But you guys rounded out the year for the Beach team with an impressive home match. Joe, one of the great things about being a two sport coach is I'll be back with you in the early fall. We'll be talking about indoor. But yeah, we went three and one over the weekend. And narrowly, that one loss to Towson, you know, it came down to, it was three to two. And one of our matches was 18-16. Sarah Ballinger and Darian Hillman played phenomenal. And they were down 14-11. And we did not know at that time that that would have been really a very pivotal match. Unfortunately, they lost 18-16. But I thought a great effort into both of them very, very well together. People that had not played together before Thursday. Or maybe it was Friday. It was Friday. So I thought that they did a great job. And so we needed to win at the ones, twos, and threes to be able to beat Towson three to two. And unfortunately, we weren't able to do that. We ended up losing three to two. But a great effort. Yeah, it was a lot of fun, too. Probably maybe not so much fun on Saturday with the weather that was there. But still, Beach Volleyball is such a fun sport. And coming back on Sunday with Senior Day and honoring those three seniors and Brent Whitehead. Yes. Well, Saturday, it is what it is. And if you don't embrace it, if you're going to stand there and complain in wine that it's raining, or it's raining hard, you're not going to enjoy it. You just have to get into it. And it is the same for both teams. And I would be remiss if I didn't mention that the crew of game day workers that Graham Millar had put on, I mean, they did such a fantastic job. In Italy, they had to wipe off every ball. Because when the sand's wet, it sticks to the ball. And if you serve it, then the sand's all in your face. And when you pass it, the sand burns your forearms. And you can't see. And so they had to wipe off every single ball that was put into play. So they did a great job. And so then, as you mentioned, on Sunday, beautiful sunshine, we honor our three seniors, Sarah Banger, Kristen Brooks, and graduate student, Sammy Perrello. Many people. Sammy's actually now played a sport here during six years. But she did it in 10 semesters, which was kept her eligible. And on her Brent Whitehead. We're not sure exactly what's going to happen with Brent. We're hoping he's going to be back next year. But he is such a huge, huge part of this program and has helped so much and has been pivotal in our success. He's been pivotal in a lot of teams' success, not just the beach team, the indoor women's team, and the men's team. He's graduate assisting there as well. He's always here. Well, he would literally, when we were practicing our non-tried indoor, we're doing that 6.30 to 8.30 AM, and then hit practice with the men at 8 to 10. Yeah, it's just like. He fit a wedding somewhere in there, too. Well, he did that on the off weekend for Beats last week. That's all you got. Well, Coach, as you guys transition to the off season, if you can call it that, I know the players are already asking about indoor seasons and being able to train again. How much optimism do you have going into the indoor season? And then beach volleyball is going to be right around again in a year. Well, yeah, we were actually in the huddle after everything was done, our season had ended. I said they're in indoor, unless we win the national championship, we cannot end on a win. So this is great to end on Sunday. Two wins, bright sunshine, velifest, all the parents were there, senior day. So it was a wonderful day. And somebody said in the huddle, we need to schedule an indoor open gym. They just don't want to stop. Before school's over, I'm going like, holy mackerel. But I think they want to see how much better they've gotten because the reading of defensively, reading the shots of the offense, and being able to jump on hardwood and how much higher they can jump and how much better they are, I think they'll be there. We'll see even a more dramatic effect this year between beach moving into indoor because how much we practice, how much we played. We end up 14-11. And so last, our first year, we played 16 matches. And this year, we played 25. And we practiced probably three times more. So because of the weather, because we had courts in the beginning, we actually went outside. February 15th never went back in. So we did a lot of practicing. So I think it's going to be great. Yeah, and they know what type of improvement they had from last season to indoor. And they want to see how much better it was. I'm guessing it's going to be better. And I'm excited already for next indoor season, maybe getting a six-peat. Oh, six in the max. Sevens to the NCAA. Yeah, well, we've got some seniors and juniors with class schedules that are very challenging. I'm sure. So my philosophy is you never have enough good players. And we're going to have a good team next year. Well, coach, we wish you the best of luck next year. And again, thank you for every week that you came in indoor season and beach season. Got to talk to you a lot. I loved every second of it. Well, you know, I enjoy Joe. It's my pleasure. He's Dave Trumbo. I'm Joe Wamba, and this has been the Dave Trumbo Show.