The other night, I sat down with our America East champions at Mountainview dining hall to catch up on some volleyball. I soon learned that not only are these girls experts on serving and spiking, but on life as well. The conversation began with your typical sports questions, but the topic quickly changed to sushi, O.A.R. and boys.

Erica Fritz: At the beginning of the season, everyone doubted the volleyball team’s ability to win games. How amazing was it to prove everyone wrong and come out on top as conference champions?

Katie Robertson: Winning the America East was wild. That night when we got back was crazy. We were all crying.

Kathleen Schauer: And then we went to play Penn State in the NCAAs. We got beat badly.

Ashley Meffert: Penn State later got their butts handed to them, though.

Katie: The [Penn State] coach said, “We didn’t play our best today.” But when you’re the No. 2 team you should never play down to anyone.

Kathleen: Well, we better go back to the NCAAs next year.

We all stop and look at Katie Robertson, who has a disgusted look on her face.

Katie: What’s in sushi? It looks so disgusting.

Kathleen: No, it’s so good. It’s crabmeat and rice and avocados. You should try one.

Ashley: Katie, you like trying stuff. You should go for it. You tried that bean paste, c’mon.

Katie: Can I tear it apart or something?

Kathleen: No, just eat it! Stop whining.

Katie: What if I throw up? Eww, it smells bad!

Kathleen: Just put it in your mouth.

Katie: (While chewing) It tastes fishy.

Kathleen: There’s not even fish in it, it’s crabmeat.

A Hootie and the Blowfish song comes on in the dining hall.

Ashley: I love this song.

Katie: I feel like they are Canadian.

Ashley: Anytime you hear someone who sounds good, you’re like, “I think that they are Canadian.”

Katie: Shut up! I’m pretty sure they are.

Kathleen: I saw them in concert, oh yeah.

Erica: Speaking of bands, what do you guys think of O.A.R. coming to campus?

Katherine Courage: I feel like they need a band that more people can relate to. You need to be an avid fan of the band or that genre of music to appreciate it.

Katie: It’s not like a band where everyone says, “I know who they are.” Either you know them or you don’t. O.A.R. is someone who should play at Spring Fling, not be the main show. I’m really disappointed to be honest.

Ashley: Well, Katie and I saw 311 perform freshman year. The lead singer ripped off his shirt and stuck his hand down his pants.

Kathleen: C’mon guys. Let’s keep it PG.

Katherine: They should get Kelly Clarkson here. You know everyone would go. Everyone knows the songs, and it’s the best when you go to a concert and can sing along to the words.

Katie: No, they should definitely get Journey here. “Don’t Stop Believing” is the volleyball team song. We love to rock out to it when we go out. People look at us and are like, “Who are those girls, are they crazy?”

Erica: Forget music! What do you girls think about the men Binghamton has to offer?

Katherine: Well basically when we started the season everyone had a boyfriend, and now only three girls have boyfriends.

Katie: I can’t believe we’ve all broken up. Is breaking up the new trend or something? Is it fashionable?

Erica: So what’s wrong with the volleyball team? Do you girls not shower or something?

Kathleen: Yeah we all stink, but for all the male fans out there, the volleyball team is now single.

Katie: We’re looking for anyone who’s above six foot, funny, down to earth, not cocky, doesn’t get too attached and is not too emotional.

Kathleen: Also, very attractive and emotionally stable.

Ashley: Also a guy who doesn’t care when I don’t shower, don’t shave and stink.

Erica: I can remember back in third grade when we used to “marry” the boys during recess.

Ashley: I definitely used to do that in elementary school.

Katie: When I was in 10th grade I took a class where I had to “marry someone.” We had to plan out our wedding and pick out our dresses.

Katherine: I had something like that, where we had to delegate chores for the husband and wife. We also had egg children that we had to keep safe all the time.

Erica: If that doesn’t perpetuate stereotypes, I don’t know what does.

Kathleen: Well in Colorado we had this 40-hour lecture about how marriage is like a cake. There are all these layers that make up a relationship and the icing on top was supposed to be sex. OK, now I’m hungry for dessert.

On that note, we all went and gorged ourselves on the culinary delights that the dining hall had to offer.