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In the Locker Room with. . .
Don �Juan� Hunsinger and Adam Shoemaker
Don Hunsinger and Adam Shoemaker, the head and assistant men�s and women�s tennis coaches respectively, have high expectations for their teams. As long as they have their ice cream, they�re ready to rock n� roll day in and day out.
So guys, who exactly picked out the women�s team�s short skirts?
DH: [Sophomore] Alaina [Fotiu-Wotjowicz] picked out the skirts and the dresses. I absolutely have total confidence in their fashion consciousness.
AS: Sounds good, coach.
DH: I think they have a sense of what the most elegant statement is when they play on the courts.
How is your season coming along?
DH: Well, the women haven�t really been tested yet, and the guys have played. They didn�t decide to show up against Malone College, though. They played as if other beings were in their bodies.
Adam, why so quiet?
AS: I always let him speak first.
Okay. So why are you so dressed up?
AS: I work in admissions, too.
DH: He just knew that you were going to interview him and he wanted to make a good first impression. Why don�t you get a haircut, Adam?
AS: I�m just lazy, coach. I want to be like �Sunshine� [first-year soccer player Jesse Kipp].
Have you guys been surprised by the dominating play of [junior] Sara Jesse?
DH: No, not really at all. She�s really a good player.
How do you two get along, on and off the court?
DH: I continually learn from Adam every day.
AS: You�re so full of shit.
What do you guys do when you�re not coaching?
AS: Well, because of Coach Hunsinger I know where every Dairy Queen from here to St. Augustine, Fla. is.
So you like ice cream?
DH: Absolutely. We love ice cream.
Adam, I see you�re eating McDonald�s now. Where�s the Dairy Queen loyalty?
AS: Well, I didn�t have time to run down there. But they do have the best ice cream.
DH: Yeah, and Miller�s Ice Cream, too.
Miller�s?
DH: Yeah, it�s a small ice cream place in Firelands. We learned last time we went there that [Jeff] Miller [Sports Information Director] and [Assistant Director of Admissions] James [Onwuachi] couldn�t handle the strawberry sundaes. It was so embarassing.
AS: They�re wimps. We were so ashamed of them.
DH: They were completly lacking in the area of culinary expertise.
AS: Yeah, or lack thereof.
Who are your favorite tennis players?
AS: I can vouch for Hunsinger and say that his favorite player is Gabriella Sabratini, and that Anna Kournikova is close behind.
DH: No, actually my favorites are Carl Erickson, Ousna Diop, Adam Shoemaker and Louis Miller.
So do you guys play golf?
DH: No, I don�t have much time to.
AS: I�ve only played once or twice.
Do you have fun on your spring breaks?
DH: Well, we try to, but we had to bring the baseball team�s bats to them last year.
AS: Yeah, and we got to sit through a fun lightning storm at a game of theirs in Tennessee.
So Coach Hunsinger, how many sports have you coached here at Oberlin?
DH: [Laughs] Well...[thinks for a few mintues]...I�ve coached men�s and women�s basketball, men�s and women�s tennis, football, baseball and men�s track.
No soccer?
DH: [Laughs again] Definitely not. I did recruit Adam for football from soccer, though. He had a great sense of where the ball was.
So Coach Hunsinger, I hear you like action movies?
DH: Well, I�m a soft-spoken, mellow guy who likes opera.
[Adam points to the Godfather posters on the wall.]
You know, he really likes opera.

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Jumper
Houlihan Heads To NCAA Championship
Tennis
Dominates Otterbein
Baseball
Loses One, Wins One
Outside
Oberlin
Lacrosse
Looks For Offense to Lead The Way
Building
Bridges, Building A Wall
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