CAREER SEMINAR

Tuesday, August 27, 1996

The Old Veteran

Radisson Plaza Hotel at Town Center
Conference Center
1500 Town Center Dr. - Southfield

A two-sport Maccabi athlete will take his place
at the head of the line.

6:00 p.m.

ALAN HITSKY ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Career in Financial Services

W

hen Louis Skeegan
lines up with 17 other
Detroit Maccabi ath-
letes next week, he'll
be the undisputed veteran of the
group ... at age 15.
Skeegan, a center midfielder
on the Maccabi soccer team, will
be attending his fifth Jewish
Community Centers Maccabi
Youth Games as an athlete. The
other 17 veterans, who will lead
150 Detroit teen-agers to the
games in New Jersey at the end
of next week, will be appearing
in their fourth Maccabiah.
The 18 "veterans" will serve
as Detroit's flag bearers in
Metrowest New Jersey. They
will be presented to their team-
mates at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday,
Aug. 14, at a meeting for the en-
tire Detroit delegation at the
Maple-Drake Jewish Commu-
nity Center.
At the meeting, the athletes
will receive their uniforms and
go over travel arrangements.
The team will travel Saturday
night, Aug. 17, on buses to New
Jersey. More than 2,200 Jewish
teen-age athletes from around
the world are expected at the
games, which will conclude
Thursday, Aug. 22.
While Louis Skeegan will at-
tend five Maccabiahs as an ath-
lete, his experience with the
games goes back even further.
Sam and Mandi Skeegan
adopted Louis when he was 6. A
native of Korea, he attended his
first Maccabiah when he was 8
or 9 as the Detroit volleyball
team's ball boy. His father, Sam,
is a veteran Detroit Maccabi vol-
leyball coach.
Louis has played both volley-
ball and soccer at regional Mac-
cabi Games. But at the larger
North American games during
even-numbered years, he is only

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allowed to play one sport.
"He'd probably be one of our
best volleyball players," says his
father.
But Louis responds that vol-
leyball "isn't my favorite sport.
But my sister likes it, so there's
no battle of the sexes in the
family." The Skeegans have five
children through previous mar-
riages and Louis and his older
sister Lisa through adoption.
Lisa played Maccabi volleyball.
Louis has been enjoying soc-
cer since he came to the Unit-
ed States and played this year
for West Hills Middle School and
the 1981 Bloomfield Force and
Burners teams.
A bicycle accident on the last
day of school in June almost cost
him his trip to the Maccabi
Games. Louis broke his arm and
was forced to cancel out of an
Indiana soccer camp. But he just
returned from a family moun-
tain-biking trip, attended a
soccer camp this week at An-
dover High School, where he
enters the ninth grade this
month, and started Maccabi soc-
cer practice.
His Maccabi coach, Dave
Stone, sees an improved soccer
team for New Jersey. "We're a
little bigger and older and bet-
ter than we've been the last cou-
ple of years. But the competition
is stiff at the North American
games."
Larry Harwin has a similar
assessment of his girls soccer
team. The skill level," he says,
"is a good two notches better
than last year's team," which
won a bronze medal at the re-
gional games.
Howard Golding sees his bas-
ketball team in a rebuilding
process. "We're very young and
inexperienced, but the kids will
learn what it takes to play at

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