Today on Conquering Heroes, Mark Rosen, Michigan's volleyball coach,

and he's going to talk to us a little bit about preparing for a season like no other.

We'll get to him next here on Conquering Heroes.

Welcome to your one-stop podcast for all things Michigan Athletics.

Updates on every team on campus and interviews with players and coaches are all on the way.

This is Conquering Heroes.

Here's your host, John Janssen.

Well, as I promised, we are going to have one of the winningest coaches in program history.

He's guided his team to 18 NCAA tournament appearances

in his 20 years. He is approaching his 21st year as the head coach of Michigan volleyball,

and that is head coach Mark Rosen. Mark, thanks a lot for joining us today. And I guess this is,

this is always a tough question to start with,

but how are you doing? You know, good, good. We're all, you know, I think the situation is fluid and it's

something we've none of us has ever experienced before, but I think we're dealing with it well.

You know, we're back in the gym with our team. So that right there in itself is a big

win and a big plus. So it's hard to say we're not doing pretty well when we can still be with our

team and, you know, be training volleyball with our players. So I think I'll look at it as a blessing

and feel pretty good about it. Well, it is a blessing to at least see it coming. And you and I were talking

before we started our conversation here on the record about the fact that you guys and fall sports

were able to at least plan a little bit. How has it been different for you and your perspective

than you looking at some of the spring sports that were shut down

initially with the virus? Yeah, it was kind of ironic that I got, you know, when we got the

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