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The Detroit Jewish News, 1991-07-05

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SPORTS

IN Two DIRECTIONS

Detroit's Maccabi athletes will be heading
for Cleveland and New Jersey in August.

ROBERT ELLENSTEIN

Special to The Jewish News

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Rachel Gluckman,
Laura Lubetsky,
Joey Edwards
and David
Epstein train for
August.

ccording to the hierar-
chy of the Detroit
Maccabi Club, it's not
whether you win or lose; it's
whether you attend the
games.
Not that the 175 athletes
from Detroit aren't hoping to
bring home as many medals
as possible from the 1991
regionals. But delegation
leader Dr. Alan Horowitz says
he would rather have an
athlete make a lifelong
friendship than win a
competition.
"We're trying to give the
kids an opportunity to
associate, to interact, to meet,
mingle and have a good time
with the other kids," Dr.
Horowitz said. "Sports is just
a means to that end.
"I'd like all my kids to win,
but that's not the issue."

lb be eligible for competi-
tion, the athletes must be
Jewish and between the ages
of 13 and 16 years old.
For the first time, the
regional games will be held
simultaneously in three
states: Ohio, New Jersey and
Nebraska during Aug. 18-22.
The bulk of the Detroit
delegation, and Dr. Horowitz,
will be heading for Cleveland
to compete in basketball, soft-
ball, soccer, volleyball, rac-
quetball, swimming, table
tennis and gymnastics. Dr.
Michael Kobernick will lead
the remaining squads of
track, golf and karate to corn-
pete in New Jersey. The ten-
nis team will be split between
the two sites.
With the tryouts over,
coaches are familiarizing
themselves with the players
and practices are getting
started.
"Tryouts went very well,"
Dr. Horowitz said. "We had

more kids interested in ear-
ticipating than we've had
previously?'
The number of Detroit
athletes is down nearly 100
from those who competed last
year, when the JCC North
American, Maccabi Youth
Games were held in Detroit.
Dr. Horowitz said the
shrinkage this year was due
to the host cities' reluctance
to house that many
teen-agers.
But the smaller number of
athletes should not restrict
the intense level of
competition.
"We're always competitive,
we usually get into a medal
round," Dr. Horowitz said.
"This year the competition
will not be as great as last
year because it's divided bet-
ween three cities. This year
they will come home with
medals by the bushel-
baskets."
Swimming coach Herb

Bernstein echoes Dr.
Horowitz's predictions.
Although the team is without
Linda Goldstein, one of last
year's top swimmers, the
coach is optimistic.
"Usually we win our most
medals at the regional
games," Bernstein said.
"We're going with a very
strong team."
Bernstein's assistants in-
clude former participants
Robert Kamins and Lauren
Dworkin. The two high school
juniors are too old to compete
but still able to contribute.
"I'll be helping out with
timing and making sure
everyone is where they're sup-
posed to be," Dworkin said.
Coach Joel Kashdan and
the 22-member track team
have been practicing once a
week but will pick up the
pace as the games approach.
"We pretty much took just
about everyone that wanted
to participate," Kashdan said.
"We've got a real good team
— a lot of the kids from last
year are coming back."
Boys basketball coach
Howard Golding is back for
an encore performance. Last
year's team went to the
quarterfinals before dropping
a one-point decision.
The team has some key per-
formers returning from 1990,
including West Bloomfield's
Harley Marks and Bloomfield
Hills Andover's Jeff
Rosenberg.
"We've got some really
young kids that will round
out the bench," Golding said.
Golding, who is also the
boys' basketball coach at Oak
Park High School, said he
plans to use the same system
he used to get Oak Park into
last season's high school
playoffs. He said the Maccabi
team's lack of quickness could
be compensated by its
intelligence.
Racquetball coach Stuart
Gottesman and his five-
member squad are heading to
Cleveland with a good chance
of winning medals. The team
is led by Maccabi veterans
1'2 Jason Miller, David Rochlen
and Howard Kaye.
"I'm going to let them en-
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joy themselves," Gottesman
said. "If they win, it's a
plus." [1]

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FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1991

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