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SPORTS

Good Strokes

Linda Goldstein and Vickie Stern gave
strong performances among area Jewish
swimmers this year.

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MIKE ROSENBAUM

Special to The Jewish News

inda Goldstein un-
doubtedly believes the

phrase "A change will
do you good." She made
several changes this year
which led to her strong per-
formance at the Michigan
girls' state Class A swim
meet Nov. 16-17.
Goldstein, second and third
in the state in the 500- and
200-meter freestyle last year,
swam in two different events
this year — the 200 in-
dividual medley and the 100
butterfly — and placed third
in both with personal best
times of 2:08.58 in the IM and
:58:43 in the butterfly.
She also swam on Farm-
ington Mercy High School's
200 freestyle relay team,
which placed eighth at
1:41.15.
The school's 200 medley
relay team, of which she also
was a member and which was
seeded first in the state, was
disqualified in the finals for
an illegal turn during the
backstroke leg.
Another Jewish swimmer
who fared well at state was
Bloomfield Hills Andover's
Vickie Stern, 11th in the 200
freestyle at 1:58.65.
Both girls said they had
problems to overcome this
year. For Goldstein, it was
boredom. For Stern, it was a
summer auto accident.
Goldstein began the season
last August by winning six
gold medals and a silver at
the Jewish Community
Centers North American
Maccabi Youth Games in
Detroit. "I had a lot of fun
this year with everyone, made
a lot of good friends," Golds-
tein says.
For about a year prior to the
Maccabi Games, however,
Goldstein did not have a lot of
fun in the water. Although
she's been a top swimmer for
several years and still holds a
few state records in the 11-12
age group, "I was kind of off-
track for about a year-and-a-
half. My times weren't very
good and my swimming was
not very good. I just couldn't
get into swimming. I don't
know, I was burned out or
something."
Some changes were made.
After two years at West

Stern, above, and Goldstein both overcame problems this year.

Bloomfield High School, she
transferred to Mercy this year
when her family moved to
Farmington Hills.
Goldstein notes Mercy is
traditionally a swimming
power, ranking 10th in the
state this season. "There are
a lot of Jewish people there,"
she says. "It's a private school
in a Catholic League. It's not
really different."
She says she didn't enjoy be-
ing the proverbial "big fish in
a little pond" as the only
state-class swimmer at West
Bloomfield. "Here at Mercy I
feel like I'm on a team," she
says. "I just wanted to go
somewhere where there were
top swimmers who I could
train with."
At Mercy, first-year coach
Terri Eudy-Teeters shook up
Goldstein's swimming
regimen.
"Linda and I took a dif-
ferent approach to what she
was doing," says Eudy-
Teeters. Noting Goldstein's
boredom, the coach asked
Goldstein what events she
wanted to swim. Goldstein
swam the individual medley
and butterfly for most of the
season.
While each gives the other
credit for Goldstein's improve-
ment, there is no doubt that
Goldstein is swimming better.
"I'm back on track," she says.
"So many people have come
up to me and said, 'Linda, we
haven't seen you swim like
this for a year. I'm really hap-
py now this year, because I
was kind of in a hole, going
nowhere."
Meanwhile, Vickie Stern
also made a transition this

year. A native of Panama, she
moved to Bloomfield Hills
this summer to live with her
aunt. Stern's promising junior
swimming season almost did
not happen, however, because
of injuries she suffered in a
pre-season auto accident. An-
dover coach Bill Rea calls it "a
miraculous thing" that Stern
not only swam this year, but
swam so well.
In addition to the freestyle,
Stern swam on Andover's 200
medley relay team which
placed eighth at state with a
1:53.72.
Andover's Jodi Shapiro, a
sophomore, narrowly missed
qualifying for the state meet
in the 100 backstroke.
Shapiro's best time of 1:06.2
was less than a second slower
that the state qualifying time
of 1:05.49.
Andover finished in a tie for
12th in the team standings at
state.
Rea says that Stern's swim-
ming has helped her make
the transition to life in the
U.S.

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