In the Locker Room With Moose and Kaitlin Barrer

As a member of the women’s lacrosse team I figured interviewing first-year Kaitlin Barrer would provide positive coverage for the team. Little did I know she thinks men’s lacrosse is a better game and walks around pretending to be a raptor. Fortunately, Kaitlin’s co-conspirator first-year lacrosse player Moose (more about the name later) was present to bring out the best in us all.

You both play lacrosse here.
M: Yes.
KB: Yes.

Which game do you think is better, women’s or men’s?
M: Men’s.
KB: Men’s.
M: Hey, wait. Did you say men’s? Oh, YEAH.

Why men’s?
M: It’s such a better game. You can hit people.

When we play in the annual co-ed game, who do you think will win?
KB: I think the women will win because the rumor is that it’s going to be naked in which case I don’t think the men can control themselves.
M: Whoa! Whoa! I can think of only one person who wouldn’t be able to control himself on our team...all right, maybe three...okay, like, 20. I think the girls will win because we are used to having pockets in our sticks.

Moose, if you were allowed to, would you play in a skirt?
M: Yes, I’d play in a skirt. I told Coach Walz but he doesn’t listen to me.
KB: How did you phrase the question?
M: I said, “Coach, it would be awesome if we played in skirts.”
KB: What if you told him it was just you that wanted to wear one?Do you have other teammates that would join on your skirt crusade?
M: Yes, Max Braun.

Kaitlin, where did the nickname “Brrrrr” come from?
KB: I was born in the winter. Actually, my last name is Barrer. My friends over the years have had trouble pronouncing the two syllables of my last name. To make it easier they shortened it to Brrrrr. Can we talk about the open relationship Moose and I are in?
M: Are we in an open relationship?
KB: It’s up for debate.
M: It’s not on Facebook.
KB: Facebook isn’t everything, Moose.
M: That’s how it got started.
KB: I had a dream one time that I was in a room with a girl that was my friend and a hot boy that was dating me or something.
M: Whose name was Moose.
KB: Both the girls got phone calls but the guy didn’t so he just called his mom to make it seem like he was popular.
M: It so wasn’t me!

Is Moose your birth name?
M: My real name is George Andrew Terry.

But sometimes people call you Drew?
KB: Your real name isn’t Drew?
M: No. I was ten when I went to summer camp. They called me Moose at summer camp. I told Jared Pickard [men’s lacrosse goalkeeper] that some people called me Moose and he decided to start calling me Moose.

What’s your mom’s name?
M: Terry Terry.
KB: [laughs] No way.

Let’s talk about your summer camp, Moose.
KB: Yeah, that’s the direction I was hoping you’d go in.
M: It was a summer camp in west Texas where you ride horses. At the end of each camp session there is a rodeo competition. Winners get belt buckles. I always went for the friends.
KB: Not the belt buckles?
M: I do have a belt buckle. Three, actually.

Are there any other traditions at this camp?
M: There’s about a thousand traditions but the one you’re talking about is branding. At the start of each session there is branding night. Everyone either gets branded a three bar or a triangle bar. I’m a three bar because that’s the best. Yeah!
KB: What do you mean the best?
M: The best.

Kaitlin, you never went to rodeo camp but you did you go to Irish step dancing camp?
KB: I made a guest appearance in River Dance. My dance teacher actually played in the movie Mafia as Michael Flatley.

Is Michael Flatley an Irish step dancer?
KB: He’s the Irish step dancer.

Is there a large step dancing community at Oberlin?
KB: Yeah, we meet on Tuesday and Thursday mornings on the third floor of Mudd in the honors classrooms. Occasionally we go to feises. We’ve had four of our members place nationally.

Do you also do spoken word?
KB: Yes. Whenever I went to open mics I would go up on stage and people would yell at me to do this thing called the raptor. They would be like, “Brrrr, do the raptor.” And I would go “Rrrarrrr.” [Kaitlin proceeds to walk around the room moving her head like a pigeon and holding her hands under her chin].

[Teammate Beth Sebian walks into our interview.]

Could you do spoken word while Beth raps?
KB: If I could learn to beat box that would be better.

Moose, do you have any musical talent you could contribute?
M: I have none.

None?
KB: Couldn’t you just pat your legs?
M: No. I have no rhythm.
BS: You could whistle.
M: I can whistle, yes.

Moose, your legs are looking smooth.
M: You want to talk about this, too? I shaved all my body hair, except my arms and certain other areas, for Drag Ball. That’s what I was told the tradition was.

What was your outfit?
M: What’s the thing called? A sarong? That, a halter top, a bikini top, sandals. Little headband thing.

But people said they saw you looking like yourself.
M: Leah Fredrickson [soccer] went as me. She wore lacrosse gear and even drew a three on her ass, which she can’t get off. She’d go up to people and say, “Hi, my name is Moose and one time at rodeo camp I got a three on my ass.”
KB: [Picks at a scab on her heel] This is really gross, guys.

Don’t pick at it.
KB: I’M NOT PICKING AT IT!
 
 

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