Senior Meg Reitz spends her time captaining three sports, majoring in geology and updating her fan club website through publicist Steve Le. Junior Jessie Oram is one of the most dominant post-players to ever grace the floor at Philip’s Gymnasium. (I caught up with Oram this summer in “da city,” where she was ballin’ on the same team as former New York Liberty captain Teresa Weatherspoon.) Both Oram and Reitz sat down with yours truly, senior correspondent Matthew “Kapstar” Kaplan, for a conversation about the success of the awesome field hockey team.

MK: The field hockey team is wildly successful. Most successful college sports teams have a groupie following. As my main man 50 Cent would say, “Do you get any of that groupie love?”
Meg: I think we have a strong allegiance of fans.

MK: I have watched roughly 165.24 minutes of field hockey over my tenure as a Review reporter. I have witnessed manly men wearing field hockey jerseys that looked as tight as a bra in a Maxim photo shoot, a fan bench pressing another fan for every goal scored and undying support from students.
Jessie: It is great when the fans and our classmates and professors come out to the games. Meg: Senior student Steve Le is one of our biggest fans. He sends us motivational e-mails and has been to every game.

MK: Do you think fans can make a difference in your play?
Jessie: Yeah, absolutely. The Stevenson Ladies are our biggest fans, and it is wonderful when they make it out to our events and talk to us about the games and how they wanted to beat up so-and-so on the other team.

MK: Can you hear the plays when Denise [shameless plug for Big Momma’s Midnight Munchies...] is screaming?
Jessie: I don’t hear anything off the court in the middle of a game.

MK: Meg, do you think Salisbury will take into account the Le Factor? Do you think he has made it onto any scouting reports?
Meg: They should.

MK: Jessie, you are the veteran captain of the basketball team. You had a huge incoming recruiting class this past fall, and you know first-years. They procrastinate and are overtired, they wet their bed the night before their first psych 100 exam, they have more hormones than a needle from BALCO and they are just downright wild! How do you keep them on the same page and focused?
Jessie: We ran a lot during preseason so that each of us could be in shape and ready to step up and play lots of minutes given our smallish team. We’d run up and down Mt. Oberlin and then play pickup.

MK: Meg, you are also a starter on the basketball team. It seemed like last season your positioning for rebounds and steals improved. Is there any correlation between this and your relationship with intramural basketball/ultimate frisbee all-American senior Ethan Witkovsky?
Meg: I played him one-one-one but I don’t think we have ever finished a game.

MK: Why not finish the game to see what the score would be?
Meg: Good question, but he fouls too much.

MK: Yeah, I noticed that a little bit during practice last season. I used my 2.5 inch vertical to box out Ethan, and he would chuck me to the floor. Sound familiar?
Meg: Well, I think we are talking about the same Ethan.

MK: Oram...I want to finish up by asking about your classes. People think athletes take tap dancing, honors ping-pong with an emphasis in the developmental structures of your wrist muscles and basket-weaving. I hear you are taking, on top of your major classes, a private reading dealing with tomboys, women in sports and homophobia in sports.
Jessie: It is a great class taught by Nancy Boutilier [former three-sport athlete and scholar at Harvard and assistant lacrosse coach at Oberlin]. We’ve been trying to figure out what happens to tomboys when they grow up and where the word comes from.

MK: Thanks! That will do it for now and, until then, peace.