Well, head coach, Sean Mimey, in his first year at the helm for Michigan men's tennis,

is going to join me in just a moment on Conquering Heroes.

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Join now by, in his first season, I had a chance to talk to him in the fall.

That's the head coach of the men's tennis program here at Michigan.

Sean Miami and coach, first of all, I did get a chance to talk to you in the fall.

Now that you've had some time to be around your guys, you've had a chance to be on the road.

You've had a tough road stretch.

What's the relationship right now between you and your players and where you're at in your season?

Yeah, we've got through that first part of the season, which is your non-conference season,

and definitely was challenged with a challenging schedule that was put in front of us.

But we only made that a little bit tougher in a sense that we qualified.

We beat a very good Stanford team, and so we qualified for the national indoor event and you go to New York

and plays the top 16 teams essentially in the country and unfortunately we went 0 and 3 there

but no shame to that because obviously some really good teams but by the virtue of winning

and qualifying for that we took a you know a L's and, and obviously got to measure ourselves

against some really good competition and feel like we're progressing, but haven't seen, you know,

sort of the fruits of that in a result just yet, but the guys are in good spirits and I think,

you know, working hard to continue the bridge the gap between us and sort and I think, you know, working hard to, to

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