 Welcome to the John Stoltrager show. I'm Joe Wamba joined now, of course, with John Stoltrager, head coach of the men's and women's swimming teams. And coach, you guys, go up over the weekend and have a pretty good success, pretty solid finishes on the men's side with a short roster on the men's side. Yeah, we did pretty well on the men's side, obviously, with the numbers that we had. We didn't score as many points as you would like. But the time improvement that we saw on all the kids on the guy's side was great. I mean, Jack dropped six seconds in his 2 AM, which is pretty significant in a week. And both Steven and Zach dropped two seconds each and they're too free, which is all you can ask for. Right, improvement is what you're looking for. And speaking of improvement, I mean, in the 1,000 yard free on the women's side destroys the record by 25 seconds. Yeah, again, that's such an aerobic event. Both girls actually improved by 25 seconds, which again shows you that they're getting in shape. We've only been in the pool for five weeks. And I would fully anticipate both of them dropping both their times again next week. And we talked last time we've met about the records going. Breaking records almost every time we're in the pool. On Saturday, you guys had five total records go down on the women's side. What does that do for optimism in the course of the season or getting back into the workout regimen? We can do this and keep on improving. Well, the nice thing about that is it shows at least the kids that the hard work that they're putting in is paying off and they're improving. It also shows that we're a deeper team, much deeper team than we were last year to break some records this early in the season without being rested. And to be honest with you, we're not even in the best shape yet. Shows that there are good things to come ahead. And that could be a scary thing that you guys aren't in perfect shape, mid-season form as we would call it. But you guys defeat Hood and Goucher by about 40 points and just narrowly miss defeating Frostberg on Saturday by three points. I think, again, I think we have a different culture this year than last year where the kids are looking to win. They're not only looking to compete, but they want to see if they can beat other teams. Which in the past, I don't want to say it hasn't happened. But again, we're developing as a team. We're developing a different culture. And now we think we can go into a lot of meets and stand up to everybody. And it leads just to a lot of optimism, just being able to have the roster size now to be competitive with those teams that are historically and regularly really competitive teams. And now we're getting into that mode as well. Yeah, again, we won two meets this last weekend. We're going up to Wilkes this weekend coming up and expect a battle there. But again, I think the girls are going in confident. Even the boys, with our five boys, it should be a battle on the boys side where we could come out on top. That's really exciting to see in the boys, but we only have five guys. So it's hard to get those types of points when you only have such little opportunity to score in that way. Yeah, we're going to have to really swim smart. We're going to have to win almost every event on the boys side just to win the meet. But last year, that's exactly what we did. We went into Wilkes, or Wilkes came to us and we won every single individual event and won the meet. And that's what, again, what we're going to try to do. It can be done, and hopefully it does get done. And then we talked about the Wilkes event. But in two weeks, you'll host our first event at McDonough School, our own swimming event. Yeah, we'll be hosting like Comey College, which is in our conference, and also Dickinson, which, again, is definitely a historic team that has a ton of depth, which is what you're looking for. You're looking to swim fast kids and to push your kids to try to beat them. And that's what it's really all about. And Coach, I wish you the best of luck this weekend at that meet at Wilkes on both sides with the men's and women's teams. And we'll look forward to seeing you back home at McDonough on the fifth. Okay, great. Thank you very much. He's John Stoltrager. I'm Joe Wamba, and this has been the John Stoltrager Coaches Show.