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TEAM: Member, Tam-O-Shanter
Country Club in West Bloomfield
DEED: Lowen, a 41-year-old resi-
dent of West Bloomfield, is the
1995 Tam-O-Shanter Country
Club golf champion. In order to
win the title, he had to dethrone
six-time defending club champ
Mitchell Wayne.
Lowen is a five handicap play-
er. He has been a member at Tam
for 10 years.
Lowen has been one of the fi-
nal eight players in the club
championship for eight of the 10
years he has been at Tam.
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Bruce Lowen
and Lowen, battled to the very
end. Their 36-hole match was
played during Labor Day week-
end.
For two days, Lowen and
Wayne were neck and neck. Den-
nis Spaulding, the club's head pro,
said, "It was the most exciting fi-
nals match I have seen in my 20
years at Tam."
At the 36th hole, the men were
tied. The spectator ranks grew to
150 people as Wayne and Lowen
went to the first hole of sudden
death.
Lowen's tee shot was long and
right, and his approach shot was
blocked by a small tree.
Lowen hit a nine-iron shot over
the tree. The ball stopped 5 feet
below the hole. Lowen stepped up
to the green and sank the putt for
a birdie 3 to win the champi-
onship.
THE SKINNY: Lowen has been play-
ing golf since age 7. His dad cut
down a set of clubs and often took
him golfing at Detroit's Palmer
Park.
Junior Division
Lowen played on Southfield
High School's varsity team for
three years. He also played on
Wayne State University's varsi-
ty team his freshman year before
NAME: Michelle Frankford
transferring to another college.
During the winter, to stay on TEAM: West Bloomfield High
top of his game, Lowen takes School varsity basketball
lessons and practices at indoor DEED:
Frankford, 16, is a3unior at
driving ranges around the metro
Detroit area. He also roller blades West Bloomfield. This is her sec-
ond year playing varsity basket-
and snow skis to stay in shape.
ball.
Every spring, Lowen goes on a
This year, Frankford plays for-
golf trip with 11 buddies to a dif-
ferent location. During the sea- ward and guard. She is the only
son, from March-September, he Jewish member of the team. Last
plays 18 holes of golf at least year, she played offensive guard
and was one of three Jewish team-
three times a week at Tam-0- mates.
Shanter.
Frankford made the tying and
On Sept. 24, Lowen compet- winning baskets Sept. 14 to give
ed in the third annual inter-club West Bloomfield a 33-29 win over
golf tournament between Tam- Waterford Mott. She made five
O-Shanter, Wabeek, Franklin consecutive points and accounted
Hills and Knollwood for half of the Lakers 10 fourth-
country clubs. The quarter points.
event features the six
Frankford's coach, Lance Davis,
best players from says she is in line to be the team's
each club.
captain next year.
This year, the
During Frankford's first varsi-
home team, Knoll- ty appearance last year, she set a
wood, won. Next school record, making four three-
year, the rivalry will
point shots. Since then, the record
take place at Tam-0- has been tied.
Shanter.
In July, Frankford was invited
Lowen has a wife to the Michigan All-State Girls
and two children and Basketball Camp in Traverse City
is a chiropractor in for a week. Two hundred of the
the Farmington area. most talented high-school players
QUOTE: "Over the past from around the state were cho-
year, I lost my father sen for the intense competition,
and grandfather, and where six games were played each
my father-in-law was day.
diagnosed with a
In the 1993-1994 season, Frank-
brain tumor. It was a ford scored the most points in a
rough year," said game for West Bloomfield's fresh-
Lowen, "but I felt like man basketball team, hitting 17
my dad was watch- against Southfield-Lathrup. That
ing over me on every same year, Frankford's coach, Kris-
shot, and I won the tine Matthews, selected her as the
championship for team's best defensive player.
him and my father- THE SKINNY:
Frankford has been
in-law."
playing basketball since she was
7 years old. Her fa-
ther and older broth-
er sparked her
interest in the sport
and helped develop
her skills.
Frankford said her
mother, and fifth-
grade physical edu-
cation teacher, Ed
Krass from South-
field's Leonhard Ele-
mentary School,
recognized her talent
and motivated her to
continue playing at
the middle-school lev-
el.
Frankford played
for' Birney Middle
School in sixth and
seventh grade. After
moving to West
Bloomfield, she
played for Orchard
Lake Middle School's
eighth-grade team.
Frankford takes
part in basketball
Michelle Frankford
year-round. In the