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point guard has made
an impact on her team
and her opponents.
Family Theater
(for ages 5 and older)
In conjunction with the exhibition Splendors of Ancient Egypt,
the DIA and Wild Swan Theater present
Ancient nkoes:Tales from Ewt
Saturday, Nov. 29, 10 am & I pm
Friday, Dec. 26 & Monday, Dec. 29, 11 am & 2 pm
Enter the fascinating world of
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ancient Egypt in this mythical
adventure story of Osiris and
WILD
SWAN
Isis, king and queen of Egypt.
THEATER
American Sign Language is inte-
grated into the production.
Touch tours for the visually
impaired available.
Tickets: $7; members $5. Call (313) 833-2323.
Splendors of Ancient Egypt. organized by the Florida International Museum, was selected from the collections of the Roemer-
Pelizaeus Museum, Hildesheim, Germany. In Detroit. the exhibition is sponsored by the Chrysler Corporation Fund. Additional
support was provided by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the DIA Founders Society. Education programs are
sponsored by Kelly Services.
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says she's "almost" five feet tall - isn't
afraid to drive the lane and challenge
girls who often stand six feet or taller.
"She takes the ball hard to the bas-
ket," says Barons Coach Bill Boyle.
Even when she doesn't score, "she gets
to the foul line a lot."
Silver gets "pretty beat up" driving
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to the basket. "It's embarrassing when I =-
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go in there and I go up for a shot and
just get packed. And it's tough to see,
ome of sports' most inspiring
too, because you want to pass off to
stories involve athletes who
other people and you can't see anything
vercome obstacles and suc-
because you've got maybe three people
ceed, or who demonstrate that
who are a foot taller than you.
what might appear to be obstacles
"I probably get some of the (foul)
aren't.
calls, though, because I'm short."
However you characterize Carrie
Silver has developed a pull-up jump
Silver's situation, it's clear that not
shot and is also an outside threat.
many five-footers who don't play orga-
"She's a great three-point shoot-
nized basketball prior to high school
er," Boyle says. "A lot of teams have put
become three-
a girl 5-6 or
year varsity let-
x
5-7 on her
terwinners,
._ ,q,
who's
athletic,
two-year
so
she's
had to
starters, or
develop
some
their team's
different
leading scorer.
skills, like
The Andover
moving
with-
senior is a two-
out
the
ball,
sport star
and she's done
whose first love
a great job of
is softball, but
that. She's
her basketball
very
bright
success is the
and
real
hard-
more unlikely
working."
story.
Silver finds
Silver
the
special
attended Hillel
attention
Day School,
from defend-
which didn't
ers frustrating.
have a girls
"They
basketball pro-
stick
their best
gram. She
defensive
loved the sport,
player on me
though, and
a
lot, and
played it when-
when
I get
ever she could,
shut
down
either in gym
like that it's
or in pickup
Carrie Silver cuts past a defender
frustrating,"
games against
she said.
Hillel boys -
"Eventually I work through it."
experience which prepared her for play-
She's worked through it well enough
ing against bigger contemporaries in
to
average
14-15 points per game for a
high school.
team which averages less than 40.
In ninth grade, Silver was "a little bit
But Silver doesn't take full credit for
nervous" during her first basketball
her success.
practice, but quickly saw significant
"A lot of times the other players will
playing time on the junior varsity
set an extra screen on the girl who's
squad. As a sophomore, she was the
guarding me so I can get open. We just
first guard off the bench for the varsity,
find different ways of dealing with it."
then earned her starting role last sea-
Despite her teammates' help, Silver
son.
is often guarded so closely that she's
Despite her lack of size, Silver - who
forced to be patient. In a game against
Madison Heights Madison this season,
Mike Rosenbaum is a Southfield-
Silver was held without a basket in the
based freelance writer.