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DAVID ZEMAN STAFF WRITER
s one of the top prep scholar-athlete award contest.
His daily schedule is arduous
wrestlers in the state,
Aaron Kobernick is a hun- and tightly structured. Class be-
gry competitor. But it gins at 8 a.m. and goes to 3 p.m.,
wasn't so long ago when about with wrestling practice keeping
the only thing he ate during com- him at school until 6 p.m. or lat-
er. By the time he showers, eats
petition was the mat.
"I really took a beating," the dinner and completes his home-
Berkley High School senior said work, it is time for bed.
He somehow finds time
of his freshman year on
Aaron
for the school French club,
the varsity. "It was the
Kobernick
a student anti-drug group
hardest thing I've ever
grapples to
and, on weekends, the
done."
succeed on the
Skinny, apprehensive mat and in the B'nai Brith Youth Organi-
zation.
and totally unschooled in
classroom.
Mr. Kobernick said he
the finer points of the
sport, Kobernick lost 21 of 28 hopes to continue his wrestling
matches that first year. But it was career while studying biomedical
a learning experience well-suited engineering at college. He said
he may follow in his father
to this learned athlete.
For Kobernick takes not only Michael's footsteps and become
a 28-9 wrestling record into post- a doctor. Or perhaps a research
season competition this year, but biologist.
"Biomedical engineering in-
a 3.9 grade-point average as well.
His perseverance was reward- corporates math and science re-
ed this month when he became ally well," he said. "But I want to
the first student in Berkley High leave the door open in both fields."
Mr. Kobernick has been ac-
history to win a coveted Scholar-
Athlete Award from the Michigan cepted at the University of Michi-
High School Athletic Association. gan and New York University.
Only 24 Michigan students win He is still awaiting word from
Johns Hopkins, the Massachu-
the award each year.
Winners earn a $1,000 schol- setts Institute of Technology, Co-
arship and will be honored at lumbia, Swarthmore, Stanford
halftime of the Class C boys high- and Connecticut Wesleyan.
His athletic education began
school basketball final at the
Breslin Student Events Center in the ninth grade when he spot-
ted a notice in a school hallway
in East Lansing on March 23.
"It made me really happy," for the wrestling team.
His weight barely at 100
said the 18-year-old Huntington
Woods resident. "It was great to pounds and his confidence level
be recognized for all the hard admittedly low, Mr. Kobernick
work I've done, both on the mat signed on, eager to participate in
a sport where his stature was no
and in school."
Looking back, Mr. Kobernick barrier.
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believes the lessons he learned in
wrestling made him a more fo-
cused and disciplined student.
"Both physically and mentally,
wrestling has taught me the true
meaning of the work ethic," he
wrote in an essay submitted in the
"I liked that it was such an in-
dividual sport; that it's you out
there, win or lose," he said.
There were two drawbacks. <
One, he had never wrestled be-
fore. Two, he was the only ath-
lete on the team in the 103-pound