a few short years after that, I became the head coach of the program. And I've also served as the head coach at Wanda for the last couple of years as well. Your leadership and enthusiasm for the sport and the kids I have to add is inspiring. Thanks for joining me to talk crew. Scott. My pleasure. My pleasure. I always appreciate an opportunity to talk about our sport, especially within our community. Well, I want to start with some gratitude. My boys right now we're 11 and 13. And last year that so 20 2020, they participated in the Get to know rowing was like a one day thing. And then I think it was the next weekend was the indoor regatta that gets hosted on Grosse Ile at the middle school. I think that's an is that an annual thing? Yep. And then right after that was when COVID hit our community hard and everything shut down. And so that was really, really interesting. But when they participated, so they'd never rode before, they'd never been on an erg, and they were in the very first heat and they came in dead last both of them. And so that meant they spent a minute or so rowing by themselves with I don't know 150 people or something, cheering them on, and it was really the most amazing thing. Everybody was sharing them people from all over it seemed like it was all over the state and even some folks from Canada cheering them on what what is it about crew that makes everybody so supportive of everybody else? I think there's a pretty big team and an individual aspect that that a lot of our kids and well I mean, all age groups tend to embrace I mean, you you mentioned their experience in their race, you know, you're with this group of people, you know, and everyone's going at it as hard as they can you know, when you're you're part of that pack for a while, there's always going to be somebody that finishes first and there's always going to be somebody that finishes last but you know, especially on that rowing machine where you have numbers staring at you in the face every time you take a stroke, there's there's a strong sense of accountability that comes along with it that I think that a lot of our athletes appreciate and when you you talk about the crowd and the other athletes that cheer them on, you know, we've all been part of it. We all know what we all know what it feels like, you know, to, to finish at various phases of the race, and we know what that feels like. So you know, there's going to be a lot of support there. Whether you're crossing the finish line first or last. Yeah. And now that that meter regatta was organized by gristle crew, how big is that is the program and how long has it been part of high school athletics here? Yeah, we've we've held that particular event. We took it over, probably back in the late 90s, early 2000s. But the rowing program in general, has been a varsity sport at roseola. Since 1989. We started as a summer recreational program, just to get kids interested in rowing out of the ecourse Rowing Club, and a couple summers prior to that a gentleman by the name of Richard Weiss longtime grow zeal resident considered the grandfather of our program, got his son Matt involved, who's currently a collegiate coach. He was the longtime head coach at Michigan State. So yeah, Dick Weiss was was instrumental in getting us established and, you know, organizing our initial agreement with ecourse. And he stuck around and helped us out, you know, with fundraisers and trailers and boats to regard as well. Well, after his son was involved, you know, we've just tried to you've tried to build upon what he established ever since. There's a lot of