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- TS BRAELYN COMBE: Welcome to Track Side with Maddie Mooney. I'm Maddie Mooney and today's episode is with Braylon Comb. Braylon is a true freshman at the University of Arkansas, and she's only been on campus for a few months and already has her first collegiate win. In today's episode, Braylon talks about what life is like as a freshman at Arkansas and a little bit about how she's navigated the pressures of racing in the NCAA and how to overcome. some of the the stress that weighs on her before races. We also get into life outside of the sport and much more. Thank you for tuning in and I hope you enjoy this episode. Hi Brhalin, welcome to Trackside. How are you doing today? I'm good. Thank you for having me. I'm excited you're here. How have you been? How is your Monday morning going? Or I guess it's afternoon in Arkansas. Yeah, it's now it's afternoon, but yeah, we're on fall break. Like today and tomorrow's fall break, so we just had practice at ten thirty in the morning. It was kinda like not too not too late, not too early. We got to sleep in a little bit and then yeah, got breakfast with a few girls on the team and then we went to practice. It was it was nice. It wasn't bad. That's An ideal cross-country morning. Practice. Yeah, I got to hit snooze on my phone like ten times before I got up, so that was fine. Love that for you. What's the weather like there? Is it is it pretty humid or is it starting to cool off? This was okay. We had a meet in Texas this weekend and we got back, and it was like a rude awakening for me. It was like so cold. I like just getting off the plane and coming back. It was like as if we came back like two months ago. Months later than when we had left because the weather was completely different. And I mean, like, in California, if the weather's like under 60, that's like cold for me. Like, I get cold at like honestly like 63 degrees, and I'll like need a hoodie and stuff. But I we had our long run, it was yesterday Sunday. Yeah, we had a long run yesterday morning. It was freezing. They said it was like 40 degrees, and I was like, Are you guys serious? And they were like, Yeah, like that happens. And I was like, This Is so cold, so I have to plan accordingly next year. You are cracking me up because I went to the University of Wisconsin for college. So we had some like in the dead of winter, like negative temperature long runs where we like bundled up. Yeah, I can't do that. This experience is making me laugh. Probably a good thing you went to like a southern school coming from if you're gonna leave California, that you went somewhere that was still mostly warm. But yeah, but I'm wondering like, did I still not think it Through enough because they said it's gonna snow and like I don't know. I'm getting r I'm gonna get really cold really fast. I didn't even know it snowed in Arkansas ever, so that's learning something new today. Wow. Probably not much, but too much. Okay, so you have been on a tear your freshman season, and you are a true, a true freshman, like just got to campus not that long ago. Can you give like a quick recap of what these first few races have been like for you as a freshman in the NCAA? Yeah, I think like honestly, this has been the most fun cross country season, like as fun as cross country could possibly be for me. I don't I don't really like cross country too much, but I've been having so much fun. I think just I don't know, lear I every race has been such a learning experience for me, I guess, is the best way. Say it and started the season at Gans Creek, and that was I don't know. I mean, in high school we weren't even really we couldn't wear cross-country spikes, you know, they don't let you do that in California. So everything felt feels so different, but I feel like that makes it a lot easier in a way because I can't really hold myself to a crazy standard when everything feels so new to me. so I don't know. I just with with that kind of mindset, I think it makes everything a lot more. Fun, not easier necessarily, but just a lot more fun. I'm not as hard on myself about anything, and yeah, so my first cross-country race, a 6k feels very long, but it was it was fun, and yeah, and then it was nice to I have so many teammates, we have such a good like pack to run with, and that's something like that's also new to me. I I just love that so much, just running even if I'm not like consistent. The one or the two or the three on the team, just like having a pack of girls to run with it makes it all so much easier. And so Chili P Gans Creek was really fun with that. Me and Gabby together literally the whole race and then Chili Pepper I pretty much ran a Peyton the whole race and that was like such a fun I didn't think I'd ever win a cross country race honestly for college and then it happened at Chili Pepper and I was just like shocked but just I don't know it's it's just been a blast and then even the meet in Texas was very also like I don't know that also was kind of I guess an adjustment for me and a learning experience because those conditions were unique. There was actually, my gosh, the announcer said after the race finished, he called me out. He said, Braylon Comb doesn't get this weather in Corona, California. And I was like, wow, like and it was just the wind. The wind, the wind was pretty bad there, but like I don't know. It was it was fun too. It's just fun to learn every single race and you know see what I can do on cross country. I feel like I'm just learning so much. Yeah. Yeah you're win at Chili Pepper was a big deal because you came back like you came back to get that. So that was really exciting to watch and really probably felt really special to do on your home course. It was yeah, it was so special. I mean, like that whole weekend I was just thinking before I even like the win was its own thing but before before the race, My teammate from high school Addy she came and surprised me. her and her mom came to surprise me and hung out for the weekend. That was so sweet. And then my parents were here and then Ellery Lincoln is like one of my best friends and she was racing there. So it was just like, wow, all these people and then another friend of mine was on a visit, so it was just like so cool to just hang out with so many people and Yeah, there was also I also had teammates my sophomore and junior year, but they moved to Texas and they were there. my teammate from high school was racing at Chili Pepper. So was just like so many people that I knew were there and watching and it was just like the whole weekend I just kept thinking, like, dang, how is any weekend like gonna top this one? It's just been so much fun. yeah, I don't know. It was just it was just so much fun and then obviously the win was like its own thing and so I exciting but yeah doing it at home was like a really cool thing and I think it's a really historic meet so I don't know to kind of put my name into into that. It was really cool and exciting. That's so special. You had so many people there. And I'm curious if you'll relate to me. So I left home and went for college too. I went to I'm from Colorado. I went to Wisconsin. And Wisconsin's a part of the West region for track and which is the same as Arkansas. And so I'm curious. I used to love going to the regional meet for track and field because I would see all the people I knew from high school. Yes. Everybody lived on the west side and I bet it'll be similar for you because Arkansas is like as far over as you can get with still being on the West w in the West regional. So that's fun. It is so fun when you see all all peop like people you know, a ton of friends, family at meets and stuff and and hearing them cheer for you while you're racing. So I'm glad you got that experience. That's so fun. Yeah, I'm so excited. And also Arkansas, I don't think we're hosting the regional Meet for Track this year. I think Texas might be, but just in general like and y like in cross country too, just being with all those people and I think especially Arkansas hosting meets is gonna have I don't know, I think that'll be a blast because people will be coming there and it'll feel like people are visiting me or coming to see me, all my friends, everyone I know. So I'm I'm really looking forward to that. That's awesome. Okay, so looking at what's coming up in your cross country season, you have the SEC championships soon. Yes. What are your goals headed into that? I don't even know like I always laugh because I don't know like what to aim for. Like I walked away. I walked away from the Texas the Texas meet and like we won as a team but I was like guys I feel like I did bad and there like my team was like why do you feel like that? And I was like honestly I don't know because I don't know what's fast for a six K. I don't know like I didn't even know how good my time was at Chili Pop. Like I don't understand any of that stuff. I feel like the SEC I always just hear like Then it's gonna be scare it's gonna be scary. And it's it's it's like its own beast, you know? It's it's gonna be really different and I think it's one of the most loaded regions also. our conference has like a lot of international talent there too. So yeah, it's gonna be very difficult. I don't know what to aim for. I think that as a team we can surprise a lot of people. I think we have a lot more depth and like We have a really strong pack that I think other teams don't really even know about yet because we haven't had a single race where the whole top five has even been there yet, so which is crazy to think about. So I'm I'm really excited. I don't think I think we're kinda slept on right now, so it'll be fun. Wow. You know, that's honestly so fair when you're like I don't even know s what six K times are yet and like what's good and what's not good. Like that's so fair because it is so different compared to high school racing. Yeah. The courses are very different than the high school courses, especially coming from a state like California. I doubt the guys were running in the grass very often and now every single meet is like in the grass in college, it seems. Yeah. Did you like the the Missouri course when you ran there for Gan for the Gans Creek meet? Well, my coach made that course so I can't say anything back. No, it's it's a nice course. It I didn't think it was like too hilly or anything. Honestly, like I thought it was pretty and stuff and I have see I have to be nice about it 'cause Coach Burns like made it. But I had fun. I like it. I'm excited to go I'm excited to go back and also compare like what I ran the first time because I feel like I'm in a lot better shape and I had a lot more consistency. see in training and things like that. I mean that was like I was still adjusting to just college in general at that point. I think all of us were so yeah, I'm excited. I think I don't know. I'm trying to think now What's like what's a good goal for SECs? I have to ask him. I have to ask the coach 'cause whatever he says, I'm just like, okay, like I'll try that. I'll do that. I don't I don't know. Well, good goal. Maybe like for now a good goal could just be to like do your best for the team. So that's Finish the race. Yes. Funny. Yeah. Well, at least you've seen the course before, so that's like a little bit of knowing compared to going in blind to all these other races so far. Yeah, yeah, I feel a lot more prepared. That's exactly the mindset I had after this last weekend's meet too, because I I think it would have been really hard for me to run that course for the first time at Regionals. So it would have been kind of a shock to the system, but now I know what to expect. So that kind of gives us an edge, I think. Right. Yeah, that's that is a smart schedule built by your coach there. Yes. So you guys just came back from a meet this weekend. How has balancing your academic schedule with your athletic schedule been? Like when you're gone traveling for this meet this past weekend, are you doing homework the whole time? Is it are you feeling overwhelmed coming back or h how how has that balance been for you? honestly it's been hard. I think they get I which I feel dumb because my the other freshmen are so smart, like Gabby and Ryan and Marissa are so smart that I I I mean like I see how they handle they seem to have really complicated schedules and classes and yeah, they keep me on track. I think I tell my parents all the time, My teammates are so good for me. They all they're all kind of you know, you surround yourself with people that make you better as a person. That's like exactly how I think of them. they're so they're they're just responsible and stuff. So I think being around that, if I just hung out with people that also were like, you know what, I'm just gonna skip class today then I'd like, you know, me too. Like you know what I mean? So having people around me like that. Also resources, I think, That was something I wasn't like I knew I knew that there were a lot of good resources that the school kind of helps you out a lot and the support for student athletes, but I don't think I was fully aware of just how helpful it is and how much I'm gonna kind of take advantage of that. There's like tutoring sessions they can help you with and Just like there's academic advisors and things like that. They plan to schedule completely around you and your practices and it's just it's really nice. Like I feel I feel like I'm very spoiled in that way. And my t my professors have all been very kind of understanding and lenient and good with when I communicate with them on, you know, I'm gonna be missing class for this meet, and they're like, good luck, like good luck, no worries and stuff like that. So I think I don't know, maybe people warn me about the next semester, but I feel like have had it pretty I don't know under control right now. So but yeah to to answer your question like I think when I was traveling I I did do a homework assignment one of the nights but other than that like I try to just if I can as much as possible get that stuff done before I leave or if I can after because I feel like one time traveling for me I have to kind of just keep my head on that and not think about difficult math problems or essays to Right. Honestly, give yourself grace with that because I was the I still am the exact same way when I'm traveling for meets and I used to have teammates who were grinding like whole bus right there or the whole plane right there, like grinding on work the whole time. And it's just not the way I operate. I'm like I will figure this out when I get home or I'll try to do it before I leave. But once I'm traveling for a meet, like I'm I'm in race mode. I'm not like I'm not doing that. So give yourself Grace that, like everybody has their own system that works well, but it is nice to have teammates, especially in your own class, who who you guys can all be on track together. Exactly. I don't I don't even have I mean I have a class with actually Iska, she's a sophomore on the team, she's she's from Kenya and we have we're taking theater appreciation. wow. It's so like a fun class. I don't know. It's it's it's actually really fun. But that's like the one class I have with any of my teammates and it's so random. There's actually a lot of guys on the track team in that class too, but it's just funny. Like that's the one class I have with anyone on the team. That is kind of bizarre. It's such a random class. Yeah, it is. Maybe we'll be in a play though together all over the That's true. Maybe this is like your this is a little high school musical type of moment, like college college College musical runners and theater kids combined. Yeah, could be. When you are traveling for these races and especially now that you're in a different like a at a different level of the sport going from high school to the NCAA scene. Do you are you somebody who preps their mind in a certain way to race at all? Or I mean this kind of ties into like logging out at the schoolwork while you're while you're traveling. but what is your mental what's your mental game look like for these cross country races? I'd say like I've honestly not been as I feel like in high school I put so much pressure on myself of like the whole week leading up to a race, that was all I'd be thinking about. Honestly that might happen with SECs because I've I'm like I I'm excited about that one and I really want us to do well. not that the other meats aren't important to me, but just I don't know, in high school I would put so much pressure on that and just put a lot of unnecessary kind of weight on myself and just I have to do this, I really have to do this. But maybe it's just that I'm a freshman again and kind of restarting it over that I'm a little more I guess easy on myself, but I'd say like having tea like my teammates help me a lot with that because I see the work that they're putting into and I see the work I'm putting in. and I just I know that like we know we're prepared for it and that's kind of just what stays in the back of my mind. I don't put too much crazy pressure on, okay, this is this is the mindset I need to have going into this race. It's like we're all kind of splitting that kind of pressure and that mentality that's like divided equally among us where we're all going through it together. I I don't know how else to explain it, but it just feels a lot easier in that way. not that not that me and my teammates in high school didn't have that. I think it's just like I think it's just different now where I kind of have learned, I don't know, that it's it's it's never really that deep deep, I guess. You know what I mean? Like I know what you're meaning. It is, but it is, but it's also just like at the same time that things in a race can go right or wrong, it's all just a learning experience and maybe that kind of changes coming from just being a freshman and having to relearn a lot of things the same way I was my freshman year when I started cross-country. It's just like all I'm doing this year is just learning so much all at once. And so I think having that mentality helps a lot with just putting like kind of no pressure on anything. And yeah, so I guess to answer that, like not really. I just kind of like do to take it one step at a time and I don't know. I don't even like I used to like warm up for a race and have these headphones on and just like blast this music in my ears like, okay, I gotta lock in. You know what I mean? Like I I don't know. I just would like I felt like that's what would have to happen and that would be the difference of a good or bad race. Like there's so many little things and steps in your routine that like you can you can have in your head like as if it's gonna make or break you and give it a lot more importance than it needs to have. And I don't know, I guess I'm just kinda realizing that it it really isn't that deep when it comes to those things. You know exactly what you've done to get here. there's so many resources. I just feel so prepared going to every race because of the support around me. So yeah. I don't even think I listen to music too much before my like I'll get like one song in and then I'm like, okay, let's warm up. Like I don't know. Wow. I'm glad you I'm very glad you brought that brought this up because I pre like I if I could have anybody who listens to this episode take one thing away from college running, it is that it doesn't have to be that deep. And for you to to figure that out in your first few months is actually kind of insane. Cause I feel like most people, especially when you're coming from a high level as a high schooler, it's hard to kind of I mean it's like your identity. so attached to the results at first and stuff. And then so it takes a little while to unwind that whole process. So I'm like very I'm very impressed by you you saying that in in believe not because it is so true. Like you do not need to have a super strict routine in order to have a good race that day. Yeah. You really like really you could show up on the line without obviously you shouldn't do this, but you could show up on the line without warming up and like probably still put a really good effort into that race, you know, and and do well. Obviously it's not the recipe for success, but yeah, exactly. It's yeah, and and hearing you say that it also reminds me of like chili pepper was also a moment where I kind of realized that because I don't know why, but it felt like before the race a lot of things were going wrong. And I think because it was a home meeting and because I was having like so much fun there, I felt like I had to kind of show up. I don't know. I don't know. I didn't think I was there was never a point in my mind where it was like I have to win this. I didn't even think I was gonna win it until. And so I think there was like I don't know, I don't know what I consider like what was going to be a good time or not in my I don't know, I guess maybe just 'cause it was a five K so I can compare it to high school a little more. So I don't know, I don't know what it was, but before the race I was like crashing out. I was so scared. I was crying to like our nutritionist for whatever reason. They're just like I don't know. A l it felt like a lot was going wrong and I was crying and then it wasn't even anything specific that anyone said to me. It was just like literally me feeling like, okay, I I mean we're going to the line right now. I've all I've done since the Actual like running 15-minute warm-up or whatever. All I've done is sit here and cry. I haven't done a single drill. I haven't drink enough water. I'm making it worse for myself by just sitting here and making it bigger than it needs to be. Like that's I'm literally making it harder for myself. So eventually I was just like, okay, like I'm tired of crying. I have to go, I have to suck it up and go over there and race. So that was like that was like the first time I think that's happened to me in like a long time. I mean, not a long time. Like, I mean, I I guess since track season maybe. But just it kind of made me realize like I can't I can't go backwards in terms of where I've kind of I guess grown as an athlete and and like and what you're saying, that mentality of just, you know, you can't make it deeper or harder than it is, you know? So I don't know. I don't know. It just that was kind of I guess what clicked for me is like, okay, I have to I have to suck it up and go. That's like all it was, you know. No, that's literally like that's what you're like, I d haven't done a drill, I haven't done any of my strides, yeah. And like I have to get on the line and race and race well. And you literally did. Like that's awesome. I mean I was like, I'm about to be a loser. Like I ha I have to stop crying, I have to get it, like what am I doing? Like I I don't know. I look like an idiot. I have to get to the line right now. This is embarrassing. That was like exactly what I was thinking. You know what though? I appreciate you I appreciate you sharing that because it I mean people obviously aren't gonna want to admit when like the nerves and the pressure feel that much, but it happens. And even yeah, even like very high level professional runners deal deal with that. I think it's in like Lauren Fleshman's book or something, but somebody who's who is a very high level professional runner would would deal with like crying before races and like just the anxiety building up and and being able to how to work through that in like different you know breathing exercises or whatever to work through that and so anyways but I just appreciate you sharing that because it's not you know it's easy to think when somebody goes and wins the chili pepper which is like an insane me that that it was just an easy win for them, you know or they would like you know so Yeah exact and that's it's and it's a weird thing because that happens to me a lot like in in high school, my junior track season was the first time I had one state in anything and it was the mile. And before the race I was bawling my eyes out asking my coach, like, please don't make me race. Like I I can't do this. Like I need to I need to like I can't race. I can't do it. And then he was like, Well, you know, if you if you don't start this race, like if you don't go to the race, then you have to What's that word? I don't know. You can't race the d the four by eight later either. Like if you don't do one sooner in the day, then you can't just decide, I'm feeling fine for the four by eight though. So then I was like, Darn, like I really have to I have to race. So it's just like even when you have it in your head and you know like, okay, at the end of the day, this is just something I do, it's not my identity, even when you feel like you're confident and strong in that kind of headspace, it can hit you when you least expect it and just those nerves and I didn't think that was gonna happen. And I was like, if anything, like this is just a fun loose meet. And it hit me out of nowhere. So it's just like, I don't know, those things happen when you least expect it. Yeah, I totally feel you. I get the like the the feeling like I'm gonna throw up so bad. That's what comes over me is I'm like, I I need a bolt to a bathroom. I can't, yeah, I can't step on the line. I'm gonna pee up to my tried to raise. And then I never do. It's always funny. Exactly. Yeah, that's me. Yeah. I'm like, I'm gonna pee my pants. I need to go. And then it never happens. I just run and it doesn't happen. Right. I want to spend a few minutes. Time has been flying through this interview, but I want to spend a few minutes talking about your life outside of running, as we're talking about not being your whole identity being attached to the sport. But tell me a little bit about what your normal student life is. Are you living in a dorm? Do you have roommates? Are they on the team? That kind of stuff. Yeah, I have three roommates. so Maddie is one of them. She's a sprinter, she's a four hundred runner. she's so fast, and then I met all of them. Well, Natalie Dumas is one of my roommates too, and we had met like she was in the Nike Elite program also, so we'd met before that, but I pretty much yeah, I met the other two roommates at Brooks PR in track season and then Amani's the other one, she's from Arizona, Maddie's from Georgia, Amani's from Arizona. And she runs like the short hurdle events and then Natalie, I don't know, she does it all. She she does like everything. But it's really fun to kind of 'cause obviously I'm really, really, really close with the rest of the cross country team, but it's also really fun to know people from other events and be able to go to like track practice and know other people. So yeah, we have it's basically like an apartment that we live in. There's four bedrooms, four bathrooms, there's a full kitchen and then a washer and dryer and I was I was like I don't know when we got here I was like I cannot believe this is my life like I just felt so spoiled like I I don't know it's it's insane and I love my roommates they're so sweet so I just feel like I don't know I feel like wow this setup is crazy how how like I don't know how did I What I do to deserve this? 'Cause it's so nice. Like I just love it. Is it technically a dorm building or is it a separate apartment building? It's an apartment building, but it's like like student living. Okay, yeah. See, that's what I my sister competed at a SEC school as well, and their dorms were like literally better than anything I had lived in. So that's I was curious. Yeah, it's crazy. What is something that you and your friends like to do for fun outside of running? Well, me and Marissa, like since I got here at home in California, me and my friends used to go play spike ball at the beach or we would we would play like pool, I'm terrible at it, or darts at my friend's house. Like that was like what we would do. and then now, here I mean Marissa go to like coffee shops and we study together or Friday nights or like baking nights. We're honestly we're all the time we're like really tired, but we still we still have fun and stuff but I think I don't know, at least for me. I'm really tired and it's I mean we'll go to like yeah. I've I hang out with The girls on the team a lot. On Friday night this week we painted pumpkins. my gosh, I need to show you my pumpkin. I need to show you my pumpkin. It was awful. But yeah, we do a lot. We do a lot to stay busy and distract ourselves 'cause a lot of people went home this weekend, but not us. Here's my pumpkin. my goodness. Wait, you that's a painting? Yes. Wait, that's so funny. That's Olivia's, she's a minion. Wow. Peyton did these ghosts. But yeah. that's so funny. We try to stay busy with these random little things we do. No, that's a good that's a good activity and keeps you off of your feet, which is always kind of a hard thing to do when you're runners finding other things to do where you're not exhausting yourself even more. Exactly. All right. One last question to wrap up the show today, but I am curious as a woman in the sport of running in track and in cross country, who is somebody that you look up to, whether it's it could be a teammate or it could be a professional or even just a regular runner? But who's a woman in the sport that inspires you? I look up to our alumni, Sydney Vaught, she's like my favorite. She's so sweet and she runs really fast in the 5K and now as a pro, she won she won USA's and the 10K this year. And I don't know, there's just so many people that like I feel like if you follow their career and keep up with them. like as our alumni, they just prove the development that Arkansas I guess has for people and just like I don't know. I'm I'm just glazing it. It's embarrassing. No I mean no, you go to a historic program. No. Yeah, it's exactly and I I hate to brag about that, but there really is so much history and there's I mean, so many so many girls that have been so successful out of Arkansas, and just I don't know, in general, there's a lot of people that I look up to and I guess they end up being the people that I it's not people that I just like admire from afar, it's like people in my life that I am around a lot. So that's like a really cool thing I feel like in the sport. That the same people that you can either compete against or with or just like, you know, s people like alumni from your school, I think that's the best thing is just being able to have kind of relationships with those people and having them in your circle is just so awesome. There's so much we can all learn from each other. So as as I said about my teammates, they I admire them so much. Everyone's everyone's so strong and you know everyone's had their own adversities in the sport and yeah I think we can all learn a lot from each other. Yeah, absolutely. The best thing about being in an environment like that where you your own, you know, you're young compared to a lot of your teammates, you have a lot of very elite teammates and a lot of very elite alumni is that you can just be a sponge and soak up all the information from them and learn so much from them. Which is a cool position to be in. Not everybody gets it is it really is. Exactly. I'd say the biggest the biggest thing with that, like learning from your teammates. I've learned so much from Peyton in in the last few months. Like she's she's so fast and amazing and like she herself has gone through some injuries and just bounce back and seeing her bounce back this year and getting to learn from her it's it's so amazing like to have someone I can kind of I guess like be in her shadow in the best way possible and just soak up that knowledge like you said and just absorb all that and getting to have time with her as her teammate. She's she's so fast and she had an incredible freshman and sophomore year and then faced injuries and now she's bouncing back in her first her first race in over a year she ran like 1617 at Chili Pepper. So it's just like it's just crazy, you know, to see that talent and not just talent but also just how strong she is. Like that's the best way to do it. She's just like a beast in that way of like, you know, staying strong through all that stuff. So it's always awesome to surround yourself with people People like that. Right. Yeah, that is cool. You got a lot of a lot of inspiring stories in this sport. That's why I love it. How could you? You know, okay. Thank you for joining me today. That is about all the time we have. But good luck to you and your team at SECs and regionals and nationals. All right, bye, Brilliant. Thank you. Bye. Thank you so much for tuning in to this episode. If you want to watch more of Track Side with Maddie Mooney, tune into Runner Space or Athletic online, or check us out on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. If you or somebody you know would be a good fit for this show, email me at maddie.mooney at athletic.net.