Three More Medals
For Track Star

STEVE STEIN STAFF WRITER

ebecca Wark's Maccabi
Youth Games medal col-
lection has grown once
again.
The track star from Ann Arbor
won three medals in the North
American Games in Cleveland,
giving her seven in three years
of Maccabi participation.
Wark competed in the girls 15-
16 age division in Cleveland, and
even though she just turned 15
on May 31, she captured two gold
medals and one silver medal.
The golds came in the 1600
and 3200-meter runs. Her win-
ning times were 5:45 and 13:04.9,
respectively. The Ann Arbor
Huron High School sophomore
earned her silver medal in the
800 in 2:33.6.
`Td only run the 1600 a couple
of times and I'd never run the
3200, so I'm real happy about
winning those races," Wark said
as she cooled down from the 800
alongside the track at Beachwood
High School.
Before arriving in Cleveland,
Wark hadn't been on a track for
a while. She had spent much of
her summer preparing for this

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fall's high school cross-country
season by running in the moun-
tains of West Virginia and in the
hills of northern Michigan dur-
ing vacations.
At the 1992 North American
Maccabi Games in Baltimore,
Wark won the gold medal in the
800. Last year at the regional
Maccabi Games in Pittsburgh,
she earned golds in the 400 and
800 and a silver in the 1600 re-
lay. In both of those competitions,
she was in the girls 13-14 divi-
sion.
Ann Arbor also sent girls and
boys basketball teams to
Cleveland. The girls won one of
five games, while the boys were
winless in four contests in the 15-
16 division.
The girls' lone win was a 41-
35 triumph over Harrisburg, Pa.
Rana Weaver led Ann Arbor with
16 points, and Sierra Bloom
tossed in 15. Rebecca Coudron
had four points and Flora
Endelman, Ariella Klein and
Emily Lieberman all had two.
Sarah Beck-Secord and Sarah
Coudron also contributed to the
victory.

Following that victory, Ann
Arbor was beaten 47-18 by
Pittsburgh, 65-22 by Australia,
45-26 by Hartford and 32-31 by
Cleveland in overtime.
Against Pittsburgh, Weaver
led Ann Arbor with eight points.
Bloom had 11 and Rebecca
Coudron had seven against
Australia. Bloom fired home 16
against Hartford in a game
which was tied 20-20 at half time.
In the heart-breaking loss to
Cleveland, Bloom had 14 points
and Rebecca Coudron had 12.
The Ann Arbor boys lost 72-22
to Kansas City, 74-23 to Canton,
Ohio, 73-21 to Australia and 70-
29 to Rockland, N.Y. Players on
that team were Andrew Cohen,
Dan Friend, Jesse Green, Sam
Radin, Ben Reid, Ari Sttssman,
Gabe Urist and Nick Zagar.
Brett Malowitz won a bronze
The delegation from Windsor
returned home from Cleveland in the boys 13-14 shot put with a
with three medals. Anthony throw of 23-4 1/4. Windsor's Jon
Arbour earned a silver in the Cohen didn't earn a medal, but
boys 15-16 shot put with a heave he made it to the consolation fi-
of 33 feet, 1/2 inches and Joe nals of the boys 13-14 singles
Shanbaum gained a silver in table tennis competition before
boys 13-14 bowling with an eight- losing to Detroit's Andrew Black
21-4, 21-15.
game total of 1285.

Rebecca Wark: Seven Maccabi
medals in three years.

Steve Stein, Meet
Steve Stein

STEVE STEIN STAFF WRITER

ast month in the of the swimming pool at
Jewish News, a Close- Beachwood High School
Up feature focused on solved the mystery.
Melanie Stein, a Maccabi
people who have the
same name and the inter- swimmer and the "other"
esting situations they have Steve's daughter, overheard
faced because of it. I now my conversation with a pho-
have a name-game story to tographer, and the two Steve
Steins met face-to-face. We
tell, too.
It began with a mixup of found we have little in com-
phone messages at one of the mon except our name and
host hotels for the Jewish the fact that we both wear
Community Centers North glasses.
The "other" Steve was at
American Maccabi Youth
Games in Cleveland. the Maccabi Games as the
Another Steve Stein was giv- swimming coach for the
Tidewater, Va., delegation.
en one of my messages.
My attempt to contact the The Virginia Beach, Va., res-
"other" Steve failed, but a ident makes his living in a
chance meeting on the deck family-owned chain of nine

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Steve Stein (the swimming coach)
and Steve Stein (the Jewish News
staff writer).

furniture stores in the four-

city Tidewater area.
He's 41 and I'm 40. He
was born in Norfolk, Va.,
and I was born in Detroit.
We're both married. I have
one son. He has one son and
one daughter.
He has one brother and
two sisters. I have one broth-
er and one sister. He lived
on a kibbutz in Israel for
three years. I've never been
to Israel. His full name is
Steven. Mine is Stephen.
Oh, we do have one oth-
er tie. It was the first time
both of us had been to the
Maccabi Games. El