You Can Say that Again
"I do it for the children, the children."
- -Adam Fuller, senior bowler
- On what keeps him going through the long practices, the hard-fought matches, the endless days on the Greyhound buses, traveling to destinations unknown.
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So we might have jumped the gun a bit last week.
The junior finished first in his premier event, the 3000m steeplechase, last Saturday at the All-Ohio Championships, beating competitors from every D-III school in the state. His time was less than four seconds away from provisionally qualifying him for NCAA nationals. |
David Bevacqua (photo courtesy of Oberlin Online) |
The Yeomen close the regular season at home Saturday against Alma (N.Y.). Singles and doubles matches commence at the indoor track.
Is there a benefit to playing in skirts?
Are they actually kilts?
Does the team have any rituals?
What's the key to the team's success over the years?
Do you guys have any cheers?
Are these key words?
Who is the team's enforcer?
Will Saturday's game be the first OC women's lax game to open with the national anthem?
How was this year's spring break in Colorado in comparison to last year's journey to Panama City?
Are there any nicknames?
This week...
Sport: Ice Hockey; sometimes field hockey, lacrosse
What it means: To grossly stereotype, an enforcer is generally a larger, less-skilled player who provides a similar function to a football team's offensive blockers: they protect the player who's actually going to score by keeping defenders away, sometimes with less-than-sportsmanlike tactics.
In reality, enforcers actually function as more of a display of the team's physical force than actual bone-crunchers. They are there to both protect the team's best player and to tell the opposition that the team can't be pushed around.
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Oberlin vs. Alma
Saturday, 10 a.m.
IN THE LOCKERROOM WITH...Irit Altman, Lydia Ries and Sarah Bergman
There ain't much women's lax shares, especially between senior co-captains Lydia Ries, Sarah Bergman and Irit Altman. The three shared their thoughts on skirts, lipstick and silly nicknames as the tri-captains finish off their last season here at Oberlin.
Lydia Ries: I kinda like it because when you go for a ground ball pickup you can stick your ass in someone's face.
Irit Altman: I think it's fun when Maggie's kilt falls off. They also ride up.
LR: Your butt is very exposed.
LR: They're pleated skirts.
IA: I think kilts are more plaid and bold and heavy and Scottish.
Sarah Bergman: We have lipstick Fridays.
IA: On Fridays it's mandatory to wear lipstick in practice. We're trying to get [assistant coach] Blake [New] to.
LR: He wore a wig last time.
LR: We're always looking for a challenge.
SB: Yeah, we always rise up to the occasion.
LR: Our team gets along really well. If there's any problem with team dynamics, we try to work them out.
SB: We have a good mix of personalities on our team, too.
LR: Nails, cause our team is tough as nails.
IA: We kind of give one-word cheers.
LR and SB: "Intensity, together, nails, let's go, come on..." (laughter)
LR: We have another "second half."
SB: We definitely go low sometimes to win.
All three: Oh, Miranda.
IA: When she was getting ready to rumble with the Regis girl.
IA: Here, I think it will be here.
SB: We've had them before but never here, live. Caleb Stokes is going to sing it.
IA: It was sunny and warm.
LR: We had a hot tub. [It heated up to] 70 degrees, and we got sunburned.
LR: We call Liz (Coach Graham) 'Lizzie'. Oh, and there's 'Silver Spoon.' That's Miranda.
SB: Blake usually makes up all the nicknames.
IA: Sleepy is Selena.
LR: And there's Brie, like Mini-Brie Mini-Me.
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'Enforcer'
Volume 128, Number 22, April 28, 2000