The Barometer Online

Issue date: 4/12/07 Section: Sports

Media Credit: Andrew Burton Ashley Allen, a guard on the women's basketball team, leads her teammates in a dance routine at the Other Side Talent Show.

Beaver nation was introduced to another side of their beloved athletes with the fifth annual 'Other Side' talent show held at the LaSalle Stewart Center Wednesday night.

The event, which proceeds go to charity, has been a complete success since it began. This year with the Austin Auditorium nearly full, Chairperson Monica Storm estimated that the event brought in nearly two thousand dollars, which benefited the Bluffton (Ohio) University memorial fund.

The show started with a couple of songs aimed towards the females in the audience. Then the women's cross country team showed their sense of humor in a hilarious video of their daily grind and got the ball rolling. The training scene with the hairy legs was the funniest thirty seconds of the night for the large crowd on hand.

Men's golf proceeded to show the crowd that it is possible to swim in the water on hole number ten at Trysting Tree Golf Course and come out without any significant diseases. For poor students, they should take note that it is cool to go diving in the water if you really need a ball. They also proved that a guy in tights can continuously bounce a golf ball on a sand wedge while doing a routine on the balance beam all at the same time.

In one of the most entertaining events, Marcel Jones of the men's basketball team and Ta Tyana McElroy from the softball team really got the crowd going with an awesome dance routine. The softball team acted as backups and the two lit up the stage with an energetic and creative routine.

"Marcel came up with the idea to put together a dance," said McElroy of the inspiration behind the dance. "We thought of it because we were bored after we ate Easter dinner."

The night rolled along with some stand up comedy from men's basketball player Calvin Hampton. With what is probably one of the hardest things to perform live on stage, Calvin proved to the crowd that we can all share in a good laugh at the expense of the basketball team's previous season.

The good try of the night award went to the administrators and coaches rendition of "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen. Half of the participants did not know the words, and many were looking at each other not knowing what to do with the popular song, but a crowd got a kick out of it.

In the end, it was a night full of laughter and fun, and another OSU event went into the books as a successful one.

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