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In the Locker Room: The Dream Team
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Sam, Mei-Lin, Emily, Kym, Alie and Jessica  | ||
Six lovely seniors sit down and discuss their athletic experiences and memorable moments in this week’s In the Locker Room.
Jessica Oram ’07 (basketball) New York, NY
Emily Spence ’07 (swimming) Seattle, Washington
Samantha Kyrkostas ’07 (field hockey) Long Island, NY
Alie Plotsky ’07 (softball) Washington D.C
Kym Buzdygon ’07 (soccer, rugby) New Market, Maryland
Mei-Lin Ha ’07 (soccer) Berkeley, California
Matt Kaplan: Being an Oberlin College student athlete is….
Mei-Lin Ha: Totallly sweet!
Kym Buzdygon: I have to agree…totally sweet!
Emily Spence: Naked!
MK: Such diversity in the uniforms for your sports…from a kilt to spandex. What are your thoughts on your uniform?
Samantha Kyrkostas: I feel like I have just as much agency in the kilt as I would in tight pants. But I would prefer to wear shorts. You don’t get your stick stuck.
MK: Stick…stuck…huh? That just does not sound pleasant.
MLH: I like the shorts. But the different-sized uniforms for home and away games are kind of ridiculous.
MK: Word is that the Wooster swimmers rock the kilt off the high-dive. Emily, break it down for me…how does that work?
Emily Spence: (Laughing) The kilt goes up and it looks like an inverted umbrella!
MK: What is your best memory as an Oberlin student athlete?
Jessica Oram: My sophomore year we had a team of only seven players. We buckled down, kicked ass and won ten games…and had the great leadership of our captains Nickie and Christina.
ES: I would have to say breaking five relay records in one year. Also, as a senior at the end of the conference tournament, the announcer who is quite a character introduces the NCAC [North Coast Athletic Conference] Class of 2007 swimmers, and just to be in front of 500 people screaming and cheering your name is an experience that gets you metaphorically high!
KB: I think the Kenyon and Allegheny wins. It was sleeting, there were no fans and bright lights, we came out in our black warm-ups, the “Eye of the Tiger” was playing and we knew we were about to [expletive] shit up.
Alie Plotsky: The best is yet to come!
MK: What is your most embarrassing moment?
JO: Our last game, a player from the other team started bleeding and it got all over my shorts. I had to take off my shorts. The whole team gathered around me and I changed into a new pair of shorts. It was pretty embarrassing to be changing in front of all those people.
MK: What about you, Alie?
AP: Oh, man. I remember the ump one time called me scrawny; that was pretty embarrassing. On the second day of college practice, I was really nervous…all these tall people were around and all we had to do was run the bases and I totally over-ran the base and bit it so hard!
MK: Now that you are far removed from over-running the bases and your first-year bloopers, what is your senior advice for those athletes who are going to fill your sneakers and rock your kilts next year?
MLH: To rely on your teammates but lead by example.
KB: Always remember to have a sense of humor.
SK: Coming to the understanding as to when to be an encourager and when to be an enforcer.
JO: I agree. I think the hardest thing is to workout how to be an enforcer and figuring out the kinds of relationships you want to have off the court with your teammates and making sure they don’t interfere with your attitude on the court.
Jessica Oram ’07 (basketball) New York, NY
Emily Spence ’07 (swimming) Seattle, Washington
Samantha Kyrkostas ’07 (field hockey) Long Island, NY
Alie Plotsky ’07 (softball) Washington D.C
Kym Buzdygon ’07 (soccer, rugby) New Market, Maryland
Mei-Lin Ha ’07 (soccer) Berkeley, California
Matt Kaplan: Being an Oberlin College student athlete is….
Mei-Lin Ha: Totallly sweet!
Kym Buzdygon: I have to agree…totally sweet!
Emily Spence: Naked!
MK: Such diversity in the uniforms for your sports…from a kilt to spandex. What are your thoughts on your uniform?
Samantha Kyrkostas: I feel like I have just as much agency in the kilt as I would in tight pants. But I would prefer to wear shorts. You don’t get your stick stuck.
MK: Stick…stuck…huh? That just does not sound pleasant.
MLH: I like the shorts. But the different-sized uniforms for home and away games are kind of ridiculous.
MK: Word is that the Wooster swimmers rock the kilt off the high-dive. Emily, break it down for me…how does that work?
Emily Spence: (Laughing) The kilt goes up and it looks like an inverted umbrella!
MK: What is your best memory as an Oberlin student athlete?
Jessica Oram: My sophomore year we had a team of only seven players. We buckled down, kicked ass and won ten games…and had the great leadership of our captains Nickie and Christina.
ES: I would have to say breaking five relay records in one year. Also, as a senior at the end of the conference tournament, the announcer who is quite a character introduces the NCAC [North Coast Athletic Conference] Class of 2007 swimmers, and just to be in front of 500 people screaming and cheering your name is an experience that gets you metaphorically high!
KB: I think the Kenyon and Allegheny wins. It was sleeting, there were no fans and bright lights, we came out in our black warm-ups, the “Eye of the Tiger” was playing and we knew we were about to [expletive] shit up.
Alie Plotsky: The best is yet to come!
MK: What is your most embarrassing moment?
JO: Our last game, a player from the other team started bleeding and it got all over my shorts. I had to take off my shorts. The whole team gathered around me and I changed into a new pair of shorts. It was pretty embarrassing to be changing in front of all those people.
MK: What about you, Alie?
AP: Oh, man. I remember the ump one time called me scrawny; that was pretty embarrassing. On the second day of college practice, I was really nervous…all these tall people were around and all we had to do was run the bases and I totally over-ran the base and bit it so hard!
MK: Now that you are far removed from over-running the bases and your first-year bloopers, what is your senior advice for those athletes who are going to fill your sneakers and rock your kilts next year?
MLH: To rely on your teammates but lead by example.
KB: Always remember to have a sense of humor.
SK: Coming to the understanding as to when to be an encourager and when to be an enforcer.
JO: I agree. I think the hardest thing is to workout how to be an enforcer and figuring out the kinds of relationships you want to have off the court with your teammates and making sure they don’t interfere with your attitude on the court.
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