My former teammate and fellow recent grad Erin Hatton was kind enough to send in this post. Here she recalls some of the social aspects that go along with being on the ski team:
Hi everyone,
Erin here, class of 2012. I’ve just moved to Troy, NY where I have a
cool teaching fellowship at the Emma Willard School; it’s a private, all-girls
high school with about 200 boarding students and 150 day students. As part of my fellowship, I teach one biology
class, one chemistry class, work in the dorms 2 nights a week, take graduate
school classes 2 nights a week (toward an MAT), and have weekend duty once
every 3 weeks. It’s going to be
busy! I’m also the assistant cross
country running coach, which I am loving (and is the real reason I got into
teaching, so I can coach)! The people
here are amazing, everyone has been extremely helpful and supportive in my
transition into the real, working world.
I’ve received lots of lesson plans and notes for what I need to
teach. The students here are great too,
they are so enthusiastic and hard working.
And crazy. I forgot how dramatic
high schoolers are, everything is reaaaallllly hard, or reallllllly exciting, or
reallllllly boring, or realllllllly cool.
I live in a gigantic apartment in a
beautifully restored old building with two other fellows. They are really fun; we have a contingent of
about 8 woman under the age of 27 that all hang out together. The only problem is the lack of male presence
around here, I miss my dawgs! Luckily, we are already making friends with the
RPI grad students…
So, my life has mostly consisted of
running 2-a-days for xc preseason and attending meetings and lesson planning
during the rest of my free time. Classes
start on September 4th. Once
I have some real coaching or teaching stories I will write an update, but right
now I’m going to reminisce.
Last Thursday I went for a run by
myself after taking my xc girls on a short recovery jog. I grabbed my iPod and just turned it onto an
old playlist titled something like, “Oh yaaa.”
The air was crisp (surprisingly) and it felt like fall, and I immediately
got this chilling, deep inner feeling that I was back at Bowdoin in fall
training. It felt so real. And then all our favorite ski songs started
playing, I think my pace went from a 9-minute mile to a sub 8-minute mile from
the great memories I was having. So here
it is, the 2012 Bowdoin Nordic alum’s collegiate ski career in song hi-lights.
Freshman Season 2008-2009: Ollie Burrus had us listening to Girl Talk
and Wale every van ride. We hung out before
Quinby’s 80s party while listening to TI’s “Whatever you Like” and “Live Your
Life” featuring Rihanna. And then came
this song: “I Love College” by Asher Roth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYx7YG0RsFY Freshmen! Freshman! And thus the class of 2012 began its epic
rise into Bowdoin social life. By the
end of the season, after the Colby carnival at Sugarloaf, Olivia had us dancing
to TI’s “Swing Ya Rag” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=790q8JRFDo8
-- our original chest-baring song.
Sophomore Season 2009-2010: While Olivia left us, the revealing of our
6-packs didn’t. Enter Timothy (Tim,
Timmy, TimTim, Timbits, AsMan, Twhit) Whiton.
Thank you Tim for the introduction to this song, I think “Shirt Off” by
Young Ivy and Blank will now forever be the Bowdoin Nordic’s theme song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E-EdfPOMM8
Another season favorite was “Sexy
Bitch” by Akon. Or, “Sexy Bobcat” as we sang it to the Bates boys at the
Darmouth Carni Crush. Which was stellar,
but really had nothing on Matt Bower’s Burt Renold’s picture…
And let’s not forget “I Gotta
Feeling” by Black Eyed Peas, although this song was incredibly overplayed, you
can’t deny its rally ability. This one
led us through a great ski season, and spring season. And no one can forget when we rolled up to
Farley field house after the Middlebury EISA championships playing this song
before sprinting (literally) to the tower.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSD4vsh1zDA
Junior Season 2010-2011. Maybe the second best email I received at
Bowdoin included this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mC2ixOAivA
and the instructions to pay special attention when the video is 34 seconds
in. “Hey, it’s Wilson Dippo!” And then we all had to say, “Hey, it’s Wilson
Dippo!” every time we hard the song again (and I still always think it in my
mind when I hear the song…).
Senior Season 2011-2012. This season started off well with the popular
“Party Rock Anthem” by LMFAO hailing us into the school year. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ6zr6kCPj8
And the season only got better as we threw LMFAO’s “Sexy and I know it” into
the mix. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyx6JDQCslE
Wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle, yaaa.
Our theme song for the season was
probably Macklemore’s “And we Danced,” which was played on just about every van
ride and social gathering, with many dramatic accompanying hand gestures/dance
moves. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlrdvfBjSEg
Of course, “Shirt Off” was just a ever present as it was before, and a little
Carly Rae Jepsen “Call me Maybe” helped finish off the season.
So there’s the summary.
There are many more songs that bring me right back
to the “best years of our life” but these are the most prominent in my mind
right now.
Thank you Chris, and all the other contributors to this
blog. Reading over the posts, I couldn’t
help but smile and laugh out loud at the humor and whit you all wrote
with. Bowdoin treated us well, I’m so
glad to see everyone moving on to new and exciting adventures, and that we all
still embody all the great characteristics that Bowdoin skiing taught us!
**Note: The best email I received
at Bowdoin was from Walter Shepard in 2008 explaining his predicament with the missing
keys to the ski room. Email from Walt:
Subject line: Whittier Resolution
(Note: our ski room was located in the football teams locker rooms at Whittier
Field in 2008-2009)
“Funny story - Nat's an idiot.
Here's why...
So, let me give you the day's events surrounding the Whittier incident in bullet-form/chronological order:
9:00 - Walt tries to leave condo, finds his car stuck under 9 inches of snow - for the third time in like, 14 hours. Crap.
9:25 - Walt is finally able to get out of his driveway. Walt is really annoyed.
9:30 - Walt arrives at Whittier. Locked box has no key. Walt is really pissed.
9:31 - Walt calls 725-3000 because he doesn't know the number for security. "Is it an emergency?" the operator asks. "No." Walt replies.
9:39 - Operator discovers that if it's not an emergency, she doesn't know the number for security. "You don't know the number for security? Are you even at Bowdoin?" Walt asks. "No." operator replies. "Well that's helpful." Walt says. "I think I'll be hanging up now."
9:40 - Walt calls Nat Herz to get the number for security. "725-3144" Nat says. "What do you need that for?" he adds. Walt explains the key predicament. "Haha! That sucks for you man!" Nat exclaims.
9:50 - Security can't make it over for a while. Walt has successfully wasted twenty minutes. Damn-it!
2:45 - After some class and a heat seeking email to the Bowdoin Ski Team regarding missing keys, Walt walks to Whittier hoping to find Ollie with keys.
3:00 - Ollie finally shows, after Walt has been standing in the cold for 15 minutes creeping out the neighbors. Ollie forgot his keys.
3:02 - Walt, Ollie, and Matt drive back to Ollie's place to find his keys in the snow outside his apartment. Bad day for keys.
3:10 - Finally inside Whittier, no keys. Walt is so F-ING pissed he can't control himself.
3:20 - Walt sends heat-seeking email #2 to entire team saying what an idiot Chris Sanville must be.
4:20 - Walt recants on Sanville lynching after a pretty accurate and hilarious reply.
4:55 - Walt heads over to Nat and Nick's place to try and get to the bottom of these shenanigans.
5:00 - In recounting the events of the day to Nick and Morgan, Nat (who overhears this conversation next door) realizes that he, in fact, is the one who has the missing Whittier keys (approximately 7 HOURS AND 20 MINUTES from original notification!!!)
5:01 - Nat spontaneously combusts from extremely high levels of idiocy.
Nat is an idiot.
Best,
Walt”
So, let me give you the day's events surrounding the Whittier incident in bullet-form/chronological order:
9:00 - Walt tries to leave condo, finds his car stuck under 9 inches of snow - for the third time in like, 14 hours. Crap.
9:25 - Walt is finally able to get out of his driveway. Walt is really annoyed.
9:30 - Walt arrives at Whittier. Locked box has no key. Walt is really pissed.
9:31 - Walt calls 725-3000 because he doesn't know the number for security. "Is it an emergency?" the operator asks. "No." Walt replies.
9:39 - Operator discovers that if it's not an emergency, she doesn't know the number for security. "You don't know the number for security? Are you even at Bowdoin?" Walt asks. "No." operator replies. "Well that's helpful." Walt says. "I think I'll be hanging up now."
9:40 - Walt calls Nat Herz to get the number for security. "725-3144" Nat says. "What do you need that for?" he adds. Walt explains the key predicament. "Haha! That sucks for you man!" Nat exclaims.
9:50 - Security can't make it over for a while. Walt has successfully wasted twenty minutes. Damn-it!
2:45 - After some class and a heat seeking email to the Bowdoin Ski Team regarding missing keys, Walt walks to Whittier hoping to find Ollie with keys.
3:00 - Ollie finally shows, after Walt has been standing in the cold for 15 minutes creeping out the neighbors. Ollie forgot his keys.
3:02 - Walt, Ollie, and Matt drive back to Ollie's place to find his keys in the snow outside his apartment. Bad day for keys.
3:10 - Finally inside Whittier, no keys. Walt is so F-ING pissed he can't control himself.
3:20 - Walt sends heat-seeking email #2 to entire team saying what an idiot Chris Sanville must be.
4:20 - Walt recants on Sanville lynching after a pretty accurate and hilarious reply.
4:55 - Walt heads over to Nat and Nick's place to try and get to the bottom of these shenanigans.
5:00 - In recounting the events of the day to Nick and Morgan, Nat (who overhears this conversation next door) realizes that he, in fact, is the one who has the missing Whittier keys (approximately 7 HOURS AND 20 MINUTES from original notification!!!)
5:01 - Nat spontaneously combusts from extremely high levels of idiocy.
Nat is an idiot.
Best,
Walt”
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