 Hello, welcome to the Dave Redan show. I'm Greg Royce joined by head coach of the Susan cross-country teams Dave Redan and coach you guys host your second straight meet to open the season you hosted the Shannon Henready Invitational on Friday. Gorgeous weather I'm just talking about how the meet went for both teams. Yeah I was really satisfied with the way it went on both the men's and the woman's side. They finished second place on both sides moving to Messiah but I don't put too much emphasis on the placing right now just because it's so early in the season but they ran really well they followed the race plan and we're right where we need to be right now. Yeah individual and the woman's side Kelly Winklebauer goes out wins the event for the second straight year runs almost two minutes faster than her time from a year ago and in turn is rewarded with the Mid-Atlantic Conference runner of the week so talk a little bit about her effort this past weekend. Yeah so Kelly ran extremely well I mean she followed the race plan really well we talked about going out a little conservative and and really picking it up over that last two kilometers of the race and she did a really good job of doing that. She I mean she ran with the with Messiah's top woman for the first 4k and then really opened up a big lead over that last two kilometers. Yeah and talking about some of the other especially some of your freshmen on the woman's side and how they've been progressing over the first couple weeks of the season. Yes I've actually been really pleasantly surprised with some of the women freshmen so I mean Allie Cray is one that's been making some pretty big jumps. Emily Gates being our third runner as a freshman and then Chloe O'Hara has been really stepping up as well. Okay let's shift over to the men's side. Again second place finish Langston Gash finished third behind a pair of Messiah runners looked like those guys got out to a big lead and Langston just wasn't able to track them down. Yeah that's exactly what happened I mean I held them back early on and those Messiah guys got out really fast and Langston was gaining on them over the second half of the race but it was just there was a little bit too much of a gap so but again he ran to the plan and and I was happy with the way it went. Yeah and just talk about again we talked a little bit last week a little bit about the event obviously a great crowd there on Friday just a great event overall perfect weather for it just talk about the event and what it means to your program. Yeah so Shannon Henredi was one of our alumni and also a volunteer assistant coach when I first started working here at Stevenson and she unfortunately passed away due to complications with pneumonia in December of 14 so the nursing nursing department actually created a scholarship in her name so we've been trying to raise money to get the scholarship endowed and they're actually really close now and what we do with our invitation is we donate the entry fees to her scholarship fund. Okay yeah that's awesome it sounds like I know you're getting close as last you know going into last week I'm sure you're probably very close if not there once you add the entry fees and you know other fundraising to happen on this past couple weeks. Yes definitely. Yeah now shifting gears looking ahead to this week you're on the road for the first time up to New York to Van Coeurland Park in the Bronx for those of those very very well-known course in cross-country running circles me hosted by Iona College talk about the competition you'll face there and just what you're looking for out of that me. Yeah so it's gonna be our first real test and the first time that I really let them race the whole entire race it's definitely a challenging course Van Coeurland Park's got quite a bit of hills in the back and as far as competition I mean Iona's hosting it their D1 team there'll be a few other D1 teams and then Johns Hopkins will be there again as well so there'll be another top D3 team there it's it's it's gonna be very competitive. Yeah sounds like like you said it'll be a great early test for you guys you know about you know really about only about six weeks out for the MAC championship so it's time to start thinking about ramping things up a little bit. Yeah exactly and that's why like I said this week is the first time they really get to to race the whole distance and see where we really are and the first time I'm actually backing off their training a little bit too to see see how they can race when they're a little bit fresher. Yeah all right well thanks coach I'm best of luck on this weekend and we'll talk to you next week for Coach Dave Bernanke I'm Greg Royce this has been the Dave Bernan Show