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[Tessa shows off her room—the mood lighting, the back door]

Amber: I would like to say that Tessa moved up from the outside room to the lap of luxury. Now she’s got the window where her roommates can look in from the kitchen, she’s got the kick-em-out, love ‘em and leave ‘em back door. I’m really big on that.

All right. So the last home game for both of you was Wednesday. As senior athletes, how do you feel as your fall season winds down and you say goodbye to soccer and volleyball at Oberlin?

Amber: Tear.

Tessa: It’s sad. Oberlin athletics have been really good to me. I really appreciate Oberlin athletics and the teams I’ve been on and being able to get to know a lot of very fine individuals and yeah, it’s been fun.

Amber: I would just like to say that she’s lying. No, just kidding. Let’s see…Oberlin athletics. I think at times we haven’t played to our full potential; however, I do feel like this has been a great experience and I wouldn’t trade it for anything else. I would trade it for a win here and there but I definitely wouldn’t trade the people that I’ve played with and that’s not a sexual “played with.”

Tessa: Well, for me maybe.

Amber: For Tessa. Not me.

Tessa: Yo, I’m just trying to have a good time.

Amber: Hey, I mean, whatever, they’re right there, it’s accessible. Why would you go on Yahoo-Date when you have maybe twenty other people around you?

But it wasn’t soccer and volleyball that introduced you to Oberlin athletics. Any reminiscence about being teammates on the basketball team as fresh first-years?

Tessa: Coach Gilbert!

Amber: Everyone who played women’s basketball who’s a junior and up will know. Everyone who’s a sophomore and down doesn’t know the pain.

Tessa: Oh, the pain.

Tessa, I know you took a break from the basketball team last year. Any thoughts of returning this year?

Tessa: [laughter]

Amber: Well I’ll take that shit as a no.

Tessa: I’ll always love basketball and I think it’s a great game. I’m definitely going to be a fan. Amber’s going to dunk this year.

Amber: I have a bet going. I can’t say the coach’s name, but if I dunk they have to walk around the campus naked.

Come on Amber, who is it?

Amber: I’m not. I’m not. All I can tell you is that if I dunk there will be a naked coach.

Tessa: Well, I hope you dunk.

So you’re definitely coming back to the team, Amber. How does the season look right now?

Amber: We look good, ‘cause we’re sexy and…

Tessa: Rich in talent?

Amber: That’s a Criss Cross song!

Tessa: The second album.

[They proceed to sing and dance…“Tonight’s the night/please my whole crewmates.”]

Amber: I have that CD. Oh, our team. Right. Yeah, we’re young and we’re very talented and we could be smart if we concentrate and work hard. Smart on the court. We’re all smart because we got here…somehow. I think we’ll play well together because we don’t have one star, instead we have lots of talented people.

The last time the two of you were interviewed together for In The Locker Room you were roommates. Do you miss those days?

Amber: Tessa and I are really different. And it’s not because I’m black and she’s white. Really it’s because I’m loud and she’s quiet and then she would come in at five in the morning and I would be in bed.

Tessa: We were on different clocks.

Amber: However she was a cool-ass roommate. I remember one certain time when I thought she was going to die. I did, I did. All I’m going to say is that I never used the Zeke kitchen sink until this year.

Tessa: I miss the shower pranks.

Amber: Yeah, the shower pranks. I would like to say that we had Jack Yeh in paper towels. He was trying to cover his front and back with moist and wet paper towels…and the back one fell off. [Laughter] And then when Cam put my bike on the roof.

Tessa: That was funny…

Amber: And we were trying to figure out how to get it down.

Track in the spring, Amber?

Amber: If I said no, I’d be assassinated. Yes, I’m running track. I’m not sad about it, I think it will be a good season.

Tessa? Softball? Rugby? You know you want to.

Tessa: I’m going to be a committed fan.

Tessa: Can we get a shout-out to Max our pet frog in here?

R.I.P.
Pet Frog Max
I Found you in Nature
And then you Exploded