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Like I do like this like they want me to do.

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No,

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no,

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I'd like.

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My name is Mason Youngblood and I am the head coach

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of the swim program here at Dordt University,

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and this is year 2 for our program.

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My biggest priorities would be

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for you guys not to just be,

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you know,

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students and,

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and just regular athletes,

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but to grow up into being adults like that's a big

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part of college is you're here to grow into the,

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the husband,

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the,

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the father that you're planning to be once you get out of here

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and I I think that's the biggest takeaway that I would give.

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All right,

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hey,

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so this main set,

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it's really not that bad,

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I promise.

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Success

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in our program

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won't always look like best swims,

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and I always say that a lot because it,

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it is,

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it is true you're,

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you're here to

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make new friends.

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You're here to make,

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you know,

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lifelong connections that you use outside of swim.

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You're here to,

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you know,

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become a part of a team,

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a part of a family.

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And so,

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you know,

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my biggest success if I see an athlete come out of here and,

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you know,

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feel like they

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grew

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spiritually,

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uh,

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academically,

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and,

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uh,

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emotionally,

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like that's going to be my biggest takeaway of a success that we would have.

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So what we normally do at the end of practice is we kind of get in the campfire,

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talk a little bit about some of the things we're working on,

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uh,

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made it a priority to,

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you know,

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pray at the end of all the things that we do at

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practice and then we get a nice break out for our university.

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All right,

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bring this out.