I just want to stay competitive with the senior class, be a team leader and hopefully qualify for the NCAAs, he said.

Fulling said he will miss several things about SIUC when he graduates.

I’ll miss the teammates, the meets, the competition and believe it or not, getting up early in the morning, he said.

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But the friends that I made I’ll keep for the rest of my life.

Walker said he will miss Fulling and the rest of the seniors on the team because their freshman year was his first year as head coach at SIUC.

This is a very special group that I will be saying goodbye to, he said.

As a matter of fact, there are several of those those guys I wish the NCAA would give extra years just to keep them around.