Rockhurst University

But then also, uh, having a chance to visit with institutions.

I was at a, uh, a university actually over here started by two Rockhurst University grads fairly recently.

Talked to them, talked to other businesses, and the joy of it all is that this was, uh, funded by the Italian mayor, so taxpayers don't, uh, have to, you know, pay for hotel and flights, all that fun.

And it's, uh, always a good opportunity to engage.

I mean, you're not building Lower Manhattan all of the sudden on the Country Club Plaza footprint.

You're not going that high, but I do think it is fair to suggest that we will have more apartments, we will have more multi- multifamily, and ultimately, you'll have more customers, more businesses, more revenue, more activity, and a better place to shop for the people of Kansas City.

'Cause today, in one of my meetings, one of the former Rockhurst University students who loves Kansas City, who said, "I loved going to the Plaza 20 years ago.

What the heck is going on now?" I don't want us to have to say, "Oh, you know, it'll come back." But instead, for us to be successful, it is globally known, and I hope we get back to that same level of prominence.

It is so true.

Can we pause on that for half a second? Because I really want parents to hear this because I've had two kiddos, one that played at Rockhurst University lacrosse, and I have one that's currently playing at Robert Morris University lacrosse.

And I'm not saying there's anything bad like inherently bad about the whole scouting process and the camps and all of these different things.

But to, to exactly what you're saying, you don't have to ruin.

And she's a big 12 baller and she wants to win.

And that conference is very high academic with Drury and Rockhurst, but finding that right fit for the right person is more important than the layer.

So my youngest one that played soccer when she went into law school, she's a litigation attorney in Dallas.

She was a good soccer player.

Well, yeah, five straight sweeps.

You talked last week about your response after Rockhurst, and that has carried over.

You beat a ranked team again, and obviously Newman again, a good push by them that first set.

You guys dominated from there.

It was a win in four over Newman, and then they beat UCO Thursday in five sets.

There are seven common opponents between us because if you were at Looney for any of these non-conference tournaments, Northwest was playing in them oftentimes.

They played Rockhurst at Northwest and got swept by the Rockhurst twice.

So they've played a good schedule.

Following the tie for 70th there, Luke Moss tied for 90th, and Luke Chouinard rounded out with the Warriors with the top three finishers tying for 79th.

So as a team, Winona State, they recorded the eighth most pars in the tournament with 150, finishing one behind Rockhurst in Central Oklahoma.

Costa Rica tied for 10th individually with 35 total pars across his three rounds.

They will be back in action just up the road at the Jewel Golf Club in Lake City, Minnesota here.

A tough, non-con opponent here early in the schedule does nothing but build confidence for K-State's group.

I know covering Manhattan High, they had two of the hardest teams possible on their schedule to start the year with Mill Valley and Rockhurst.

They still obviously have a great chance to bounce back and still fulfill their expectations this year.

But on the other hand, K-State getting two cupcakes, for lack of a better term, to start this season, that just builds confidence for this group.

Yeah, I mean, we played, um, we played a decent preseason, um, schedule.

I would say our second weekend was our toughest weekend of play, playing Southwest So- Southwest Minnesota, Northern, um, and then Rockhurst, and so we learned a lot about ourselves that weekend.

Um, and so we always wanna prep ourselves for conference play.

Our conference is super aggressive.

And so, you know, you have to show up every night.

Anyone can take you if you're not ready, and so since we do have a little bit larger of a target on our back since we've had a successful preseason, um, and with the rankings, people are just...

You know, we learned against Rockhurst, like, everybody's gonna come really, really hard at you, and so we have to be able to prepare for that and just play steady in that first set.

And for the most part, those teams can't sustain that for three sets, for four sets, and so if we can come out strong in the first set, I know my team can sustain a high level of volleyball for-