SPORTS Campers diving into action. Weight training at Tanuga Swim Camp. Camping Out How do you find the best sports camp? MIKE ROSENBAUM I Sports Writer here are sports camps for serious young athletes, camps for intermediate level ath- letes, camps for beginners. There are fun camps which in- clude sports. Day camps, overnight camps, high school camps, college camps — you get the idea. Young athletes and their parents may have a tough job ahead of them to find the right sports camp for their child. A good first step for parents is to seek advice of an expert who is un- biased, familiar with camps and the prospective camper. "The first thing I'd tell them is to go and consult their son or daughter's coach," says Bloomfield Hills Andover varsity basketball coach Rick Kris- niski. "Most coaches in the area know of camps that are good camps and receive a lot of brochures and so forth. So they're probably the best resource person that parents can talk to:' Speaking to a high school varsity coach in your school district, even if your child is not yet in high school, can also be productive. While most coaches will be happy to help any player develop better skills, some might be more motivated to help a player they might one day coach. For basketball players, Krisniski feels a good camp can yield excellent benefits. "I really think kids, to become really good basketball players, need to work on their game. It's a skill sport and they have to enough courts for the amount of players they have. Six or eight courts may sound like a lot of courts, until you find out there's 150 kids .. . "The second thing you want to Bob Jenrow, a coach with the look at is the personnel. Who's run- Birmingham-Bloomfield Atlantis ning the program, their experience at swim club, often gives parents advice running-camps, who they choose to be on choosing camps, but he does so their instructors at the camp. That carefully. "I have to have a look at the can vary from camps that, say, are kid and look at his background and run like the (Nick) Bollettieri Tennis think about which one would be best Academy down in Florida — they have for him?' their regular year-round personnel — Jon Fischer, a tennis instructor at to other camps that maybe pros or Franklin Racquet Club who coaches coaches run in the summer . . . Most Lisa Bonder, a world-class player from college coaches run something like Saline, offers advice which can be ap- that. Then there's also camps asso- ciated with a lot of universities. plied to all sports camps. "You want to get an idea, first of The University of Michigan and Mich- all, of their facilities. Whether there's Continued on Page 50 spend a lot of time at it and camps provide the opportunity for them to really work on their game and give them drills and so forth:' ROUND UP Australians, JCC Split The Australian Maccabi basketball team, on the last stop of its month-long U.S. tour, split two games with Detroit Jewish Community Center teams on Monday at the Maple/Drake JCC. The teams were scheduled to play once more on Wednesday. In the seniors game Mon- day afternoon, Detroit came back from a 20-point deficit and pulled out a 71-69 win. Tare Wigod hit both ends of a one-and-one free throw oppor- tunity with eight seconds left 48 FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1988 to break the 69-all tie. The Australians led 37-22 at halftime and built a 20-point lead before Detroit began its rally late in the third quarter. They pulled ahead midway through the final period. The lead chang- ed hands eight times before Detroit won it. Peter May and Jeff Mayer scored 20 points apiece and Wigod added 14 — all in the second half — for the JCC. Richard Smart had 27 and Charley Rotstayn 25 for the Aussies. In the 13-16-year-old game, the Australians took a 10-0 lead on their way to a 54-42 win. Australia held a 21-7 lead after one quarter. Again, Detroit came back, cutting the lead to two points in the third quarter. But the Australians pulled away in the final minutes. Adam Wrublewski led the winners with 18 points and Michael Lewis had 13. Wigod paced the JCC with 15. Swimmers Set For Indy Meet Local swimmers Dena Bernstein, Linda Goldstein and Jody Shapiro will com- pete in a United States Swimming-sponsored meet in Indianapolis this weekend. Competition runs through Sunday. It is the first major meet of the year for all three swimmers. Bulls Win In JCC Hoops The Bulls (2-0) pulled out a tight game against the Mavericks (0-2) in Honey Ber- ris League basketball action Sunday, 50-46. The lead changed hands several times before the Bulls took charge. Dave Baxter led all scorers for the Bulls with 31 points. Ibny Jenkins tallied 21 for the Mavericks. The Celtics (2-1) routed the Pistons (1-1) 52-17 in the se- cond game Sunday. Mead Palmer scored 14 points for the Celtics. On Jan. 20, the Rockets (1-1) pulled away from the Lakers (1-1) in the final 30 seconds for a 61-57 win. Ed Finch scored 16 for the win- ners, Harry Glanz 14 for the losers. Also, the Celtics broke open a 23-23 game in the se- cond half to beat the 76'ers (1-1) 51-41. Jerry Flowers had 17 points for the Celtics while Keith Tobin tallied ten for the 76'ers.