I wonder if you, this might not be a great question, but I'm curious, was it more difficult for you to sit on the sideline on the day the team could have clinched the supporter shield when they did and not be able to be in that starting lineup, not knowing what might happen or sitting on the sideline watching your team lose and not be able to sub in and contribute?

I think that's a really good question.

Um, I think.

So the way the timeline worked out for us to win Supporter Shield was special because I forget what result went our way, but then we were able to win it at home.

And the next day I had surgery, I think, or that next week.

So it definitely, obviously not being a part of it sucked and knowing that I, but knowing that I contributed so much to that season and helped the team be in the spot that they were in to win it at home and to be a part of it was still great.

So I'd say probably being being not a part of the team for the first half of this season probably sucked more because I would have felt like I could have contributed and not put us in a, you know, not had us in a hole as much.

Yeah, you open your eyes in the morning until going to bed.

At what point do you think between freshman and sophomore year did you kinda realize that NIWA wouldn't just be a really good Colorado squad, but that it would be something that could go compete for a national title and be something special?

Yeah, I mean, it was probably, oh, it probably was freshman year.

It was during that cross-country season.

I mean, I didn't really, I was still kinda unfamiliar with NXN, this whole thing of winning.

I mean, I'd seen other people do it in the past, so I kinda had an idea of it, like, "Oh, this is cool.

This is something people do, I guess." But, um, it wasn't really till, oh, when was it about? I think it was-At first, after NXR, I really realized, like, we may be-- Uh, we have a lot more left and we can win these things.

It was when we were NXR, we kinda got our, we kinda got our butts handed to us by some other teams.

We're just gonna have fun and, you know, we trust our training, we trust everything we've been doing." Was it like that or was the pressure elevated? Like talk about the contrast between your sophomore and your junior season.