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Worldwide participation slated
for Maccabi Games at JCC
Staff Writer
Although there will un-
doubtedly be older, stronger
and more experienced com-
petitors at the 1984 United
States Maccabi Youth
Games, Bryan Fratkin will'
stand apart from the rest —
literally.
The
13-year-old
Williamsburg, Va., youth is
coming to Detroit as his ci-
ty's one-man delegation for
the Games, to be hosted by
the Jewish Community
Center beginning Aug. 19.
And while Bryan's situation
may be unusual, his intense
desire to take part in the
Games regardless of the cir-
cumstances is a trait shared
by nearly 1,000 Jewish
teenagers from 40 U.S.
cities and five foreign coun-
tries sending teams here
later this month.
The out-of-town delega-
tions headed for the compe-
tition range in size from
Williamsburg's single
representative to a 100-
member contingent from
Philadelphia and south
New Jersey. In addition,
squads of Jewish youths
aged 12-16 from Canada,
Mexico, Venezuela, Au-
stralia and Israel will take
part in the week-long event.
"Living in a town where
there are only about 40
Jewish families, Bryan has
not been exposed to many
Jewish kids," Bryan's
father, Barry Fratkin, said
in a telephone interview
last week. "It's terrific that
he will be able to participate
in an event with that many
Jewish kids from all over
the world."
Bryan, who excels in both
soccer and basketball, had
hoped to attend the Maccabi
Youth Games as part of a
team from the
Williamsburg area. When
he learned that nearby
cities would not be taking
part in the Games, rather
than change his travel
plans, he just switched
sports, choosing to enter the
competition as a swimmer.
Those coming here will
stay with members of the
Detroit Maccabi Youth
team and their families and
in the homes of dozens of
volunteer hosts who were
recruited specifically for the
festival. All the housing as-
signments have been made,
according to Dr. Marty
Oliff, the Center's director
of physical education. Hous-
ing information was mailed.
Correction
The list of Detroit Mac-
cabi Youth Games partici-
pants in last week's
Jewish News should have
included Debbie Schlussel
as a member of the tennis
team..
Mexico's 12-year-old Esther Rayek, foreground, practices for
the Maccabi Youth Games to be held in Detroit this month.
to both the visiting delega-
tions and the area hosts last
week, Dr. Oliff said.
Detroit will be only the
second city to host the
Youth Games, which made
their debut in Memphis in
1982 and are rapidly grow-
ing in popularity. The
number of participants ex-
pected here this month is
approximately 2'/2 times the
number of youths who took
part in the Memphis compe-
tition two summers ago. To-
ronto, which is sending a
45-member delegation to
Detroit and will host the
next Games in 1986, is hop-
ing to attract some 2,000-
2,500 Jewish teenage
athletes to Canada two
years from now, according
to Marty Hayman, chair-
man of the Canadian Mac-
cabiah Youth Organization.
Hayman, who will head
Toronto's contingent here,
sees the Games not only as a
wonderful opportunity for
Jewish youths from Canada
to compete with their coun-
terparts from the United
States, but also as a "learn-
ing experience" for han-
dling the role of the host
city, something he will be
involved with two years
from now.
Another group of 45
teenagers will be coming to
Detroit from Chicago. The
Chicago team includes 16
more participants than the
one that traveled to Mem-
phis two y,ears ago. Accord-
ing to Mark Klaber, who
will head the delegation and
also coach the Chicago track
and basketball teams, one
reason for the increased size
of the squad is that he has
had more than two years to
prepare for the Games here,
which were announced fol-
lowing the completion of the
Memphis competition. Also,
because Chicago has a
long-established Maccabi
athletic club, recruiting
Jewish athletes for the
Games wasn't very difficult,
Klaber said.
For some, the Maccabi
Youth Games will be a to-
tally new experience. Jay
Schreider, who works for
the athletic department of
the Jewish Community
Center in Baltimore, is
bringing a 12-member team
to Detroit. •Schreider was
not aware of the Memphis
competition held two years
ago, but was eager to par-
ticipate in the Games when
he learned of the 1984
competition and would like,
if things go well in Detroit
this month, to prepare a
team for Toronto in 1986.
The Baltimore delegation
includes nine basketball
players, two gymnasts and
one girl who will compete in
both swimming and track
and field events.
A delegation of 56 Jewish
teenagers is headed here for
the Games from northern
California and "for many of
the kids, the trip to Detroit
will be their first encounter
with long-distance travel,"
Rosan Gomperts of the Palo
Alto Jewish Community
Center said. The northern
California team includes
Jewish teens from Sac-
ramento, San Francisco and
Oakland, as well as Palo
Alto.
Memphis, which fielded a
team of 84 for its own
competition two years ago,
will be sending 35 youths to
Detroit. ', The kids are look-
ing forward to rekindling
old friendships that sprang
from the 1982 Games," ac-
cording to Memphis coach
Leon Silver.
Despite a high percent-
age of "rookies," Silver feels
the Memphis boy's basket-
ball squad, which won the
gold medal two years ago,
will be tough to beat this
time around as well.
And should one of the
Memphis basketball
players fail to make the trip,
there's a 13-year-old Jewish
kid in 'Virginia who just
loves shooting baskets.
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