"If you want to play, prepare your body. If you want to win, prepare your mind."
Wirth was named NCAC field hockey Player of the Week following her play in this past weekend's MWFHCA tournament. The sophomore tallied three goals and two assists in the team's two victories.
Wirth ended the 1999 season as the Yeowomen's leading scorer with 9 goals and 2 assists for a 1.18 goals per game average.
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![]() Vanessa Wirth (photo courtesy Brian Hodgkin) |
Senior day is coming! Don't forget that Saturday is the final home game for our beloved Crimson Thunder.
What's the deal with this woodchuck?
ML: I had the premonition, but all three of us saw it.
Is there a nickname for the team?
ML: The Squabbling Deities
NA: Whores in Hot Pants
What are your inspirations for running?
NA: My coach in high school was like a dad to me.
BG: I started running in middle school. I had a gym teacher who pushed me hard in middle school. I also had a really good high school coach, who was like a second father to me.
What's your theme song?
NA: It's called Dracula, it's a techno version. It's very upbeat.
Is there any hidden competition between the men and women's teams?
ML: They realize it and worship us, as they should.
BG: There's no competition, I love Colin.
What has contributed to your success this year?
ML: We have a lot of talented freshman and upperclassmen that came back and turned it on.
BG: We are less injured then we usually are; Roger doesn't kill us.
If you could be any inanimate object, what inanimate object would you be?
NA: A piece of cobalt glass. It's all intense and different shades. That or a well-worn G-string
BG: I'd like to be a part of the ocean, because it's free-flowing and you get to go wherever you want.
If there were a movie made about the cross-country team, who would play you?
Talk about Roger a little.
BG: He really caring and interested with what you have to say.
ML: Roger's the bomb-diggity, he's always there for you whatever you have to talk about. He's a real down-to-earth kind of guy.
This week...
Sport: Baseball
What it means: An illegal motion by the pitcher committed if one or more runners are on base for which each base runner is advanced one base. A balk may be called for the following actions (among others): Pitching from the stretch without first coming to a set position; failure to pitch after making a body movement habitually associated with the delivery; feining a throw to home plate or to first base; throwing to a base in an attempt to pick off a base runner without first stepping toward that base; assuming the pitching position on or near the pitcher's rubber when holding the ball. If a balk is committed with no runners on base, a ball is called by the umpire.
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Saturday, Nov. 13 1 p.m.
IN THE LOCKERROOM WITH...NAME_GOES_HERE
The Oberlin Review took time to get to know seniors Becca Grossman, Medora Lytle and Nicki Atkinson, the three senior co-captains of the women's cross-country team. We wanted to know the secret behind this year's success, their respect for Coach Roger Laushman and wacky idiosyncracies in general.
NA: I run from the woodchuck because it lives under Medora's porchsteps.
BG: Hot Sexy Women
ML: I run because rage is the only true drug.
ML: It's a White Zombie song.
NA: No, because we're inherently better.
NA: We have more depth this year.
ML: Mandorla - a sacred space in paintings in medieval art usually shaped like an almond whereby a representation of a higher religious power is located.
BG: Demi Moore - she was bad ass in G.I. Jane, she's also sexy and strong.
ML: I would be either the girl who played Trinity in The Matrix because she ripped shit up or Linda Hamilton in T2 when she's doing the pull-ups, yea that's me.
NA: Sharon Stone would play me from her Basic Instinct days - which would be me. It's all about sex; that's why we are the Whores in Hot Pants.
NA: He likes produce a whole lot.
This Week's Events
What are they talking about?
Balk
Volume 128, Number 8, November 5, 1999