 Hello, and welcome to the Eric Camineca show presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm Greg Royce joined with Stevenson Track and Field head coach, Eric Camineca. Coach, first of all, congratulations. Great, great weekend for your program. The men take home their first ever Mac championship, and the women finish second. So just talking about how it feels to be successful on both sides. Relieved right now, all that hard work that we put in for four years that I got here has finally paid off. So that's really, really exciting. It's just nice to be able to take a step back and take it all in and enjoy it. Yeah. The men's side, obviously, the coach's poll that came out before said it was going to nail biter, and it was. You guys won by two points over Widener. It came down to the last event. Talk about that last event and the emotions that you and I'm sure the whole team were going through. Yeah, it was rough. At that point, we knew the women finished second, and that was really exciting. We weren't expecting that. And the men's competition was a lot closer than we anticipated. We knew it was going to be close, but a couple things happened throughout the meet. We got de-queued in the Heptathlon in the last event, and that cost us six points there. And that was tough. And then there was about three more events going on in the track. Pull vote wrapped up. We didn't score any points there. The shot put didn't go the way we did, and so they got a lot more points than we anticipated. And then it did. It came down to that high jump. And the way things were going, Widener had two guys left at that point, and we were only up by nine. I was like, man, this is going to be tough. We're sitting there thinking about we battled really hard. This was close. And thinking that we didn't have a chance anymore. And then it winds up that Coach Roger comes up to me, and he's like, I think we got this thing by a point or two. And it just happened that Clement was able to take a six-place finish, get those three points, and put us up by two, and walk away with the championship. Yeah, obviously very exciting. Like you said, just kind of comes down to the wire. And there are other events, like the 60-meter dash where you had six guys in the final. And that had to be impressive, watching that meet with six guys all with your uniform on. I mean, that was really impressive to have that. We put six guys in that event, and all six guys made the finals, which is just really impressive, and it's exciting. But it's not fair for us, or for me, to really single out any event group or anything, because this was a total team effort. I wouldn't have to name every single guy in the team, because everyone put it all out there on the line. Yeah. Then the women's side, obviously second-place finish. And kind of talk about that, kind of the progress the women's program has made. Yeah, you know, last year, in the past couple years, the women's throwers have always been carrying us. And they did it once again, coming out with like 40-some points between the shot put and the weight throw. Alice and Bishop had a great meet, especially in that weight through. She went from someone who didn't even make the finals last year, and then wait to end up winning it and setting a school record. Danika finally came through and had a big throw in that shot put. And then Kimberly Ham, you know, I didn't even realize where all these points came from, us finishing second. Kimberly Ham and had a fantastic meet. She was responsible for over 30-some points, winning the 60, one to 200 out of the slow heat. She wasn't even in the fast heat. I was able to sneak through there and did a really good job. And then finishing second place in the long jump. And then, you know, Dion Hicks had a ton of points, and Rachel Panick finishing as the rookie of the year really carried that woman's team through. Yeah, certainly an impressive performance, and you set a lot of athletes to be back, you know, obviously for outdoor, and then obviously, you know, for next year. So, you know, certainly the future very, very bright. Absolutely. Now you kind of shift gears this week. You go to ECACs up at the Armory. Kind of what are your goals going into that meet? You know, we're trying to get someone out to nationals. We have a lot of people who are on the verge. You know, Derek Davis now put himself in conversation. Kendall Belzer put himself in conversation, along with Matt Riggins, Aaron Holliday. You know, all those 60-meter guys are there. On the women's side, I think Kimberly Hammond has a really good shot. Maybe Rachel, Richie, in the multi may have a shot. You know, that's kind of where we're going right now. You know, we're going to end this indoor season possibly this weekend or continue on, depending on what happens. Yeah, not as much pressure in terms of trying to win the team championship, so individuals can kind of concentrate a little bit more on getting their mark to get out to nationals. Exactly, and we're not going to really worry about the team's score this weekend. You know, we're going to hold some people back from a lot of the events that they did qualify, and just to let them focus on their main event, to try to see where they can get to the next level, or at least hit that personal best mark. Yeah, absolutely. All right, coach, we wish you and your athletes the best of luck this weekend, and we'll talk to you next week. Great, thank you very much. All right, for Eric Camadeca, I'm Greg Royce. This has been the Eric Camadeca Show.