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A Touch Of Maccabi for Tall

JILLIAN GOLD
ADRIENNE ZUCKERMAN
Special to the Jewish News

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magine this: You are crammed in a tunnel with at least 600 other
kids. Out of nowhere, a group of kids begins chanting, bringing
together a delegation in spirit and love. The spirit shown here sets the
tone for the week. This experience sparks something that is going to
forever burn in one's heart.
To some people, the games are just competition; to most, however, it's more.
From the time you board your bus or plane, to the time you shed your final
tears and give your final hugs, as if to close the door that will be reopened the
following year, you create memories and friendships that mean the world.
Entering the games in 1996, we didn't know what to expect. Being the
younger members of the team, we were intimidated by the light of Maccabi,
but the seed of love for the games had been planted. In 1997, it would
grow, in 1998 it would flower, and in 1999, it gave off seeds of its own, to
be planted in others' hearts.
This year will be our final year, and by the looks of it, may be the best one
yet — although each year is so different, it makes comparison very difficult. We
had finally approached the orientation to Maccabi. Then came the waiting. We
passed the time by bonding with our delegation in the gym, and playing the "I
hope it's not them" game when the host families began to arrive.
The crowd diminished and our excitement grew, and then Marty Gold
(girls softball coach), calls out, "Jill and Adrienne, your families have can-
celled." Not funny!
No more than five minutes later, we heard, "Jill and Adrienne, it's for
real." Upon meeting our hosts, we fell in love with them, the spirit, the city
and the games. This is when we knew our lives would be changed again.
This is Maccabi forever. Welcome to Houston!

Jillian Gold and Adrienne Zuckerman, part of the Detroit Maccabi delega-
tion, are competing in Houston as 17-year-old veteran Maccabi athletes.

Detroit's more experienced volley-
ball team was up in Columbus, Ohio,
where it won the first two matches of
the tournament, 15-8 and 15-4, over
the hosts from Columbus. In the
afternoon, it routed St. Louis, 15-1, in
the first game and held off a charge
from its opponents when Julie Hack
served out the last three points to end
the St. Louis comeback. On Tuesday,
Detroit volleyballers won a dramatic,
decisive third game from Cleveland,
20-18, after splitting the first two sets,
4-15 and 15-6.
Detroit's 15- and 16-year-old boys
basketball team rolled to two easy vic-
tories: Youngstown, 89-55, and
Indianapolis, 85-40. Detroit showed
its depth in the wins, as all 10 players
scored in both games. On Tuesday, the
cagers scraped by Greater Washington,
69-64, rolling to a 3-0 record. Daniel
Wohl, just off his gold medal-winning
performance for Team USA in the Pan
American Maccabi Games in Mexico
last month, averaged a team-high 18
points per game, with Richie Wallace

and Brent Jaffe averaging 13 each.
The soccer teams didn't fare as well
in Columbus on . Monday, but its for-
tunes reversed on Tuesday.
The boys team, made up of teens
from Detroit and Pittsburgh, fell 3-1
to Chicago and 6-3 to a combined
team representing St. Louis, Ann
Arbor and Flint. On Tuesday, the boys
rebounded with a 3-1 win over a
Richmond and Indianapolis team.
The girls team, comprised of
Detroit, Pittsburgh and Richmond
teens, lost 6-0 to a team from St.
Louis and St. Paul, and defeated a
team from Columbus, Milwaukee and
Dayton, 1-0. They then fell 11-0 to
Greater Washington.
In Columbus, meanwhile, where
York, Penn., is fielding a team for the
first time ever, the delegation was
thrilled when two of its swimmers
medaled. "This has been a wonderful
experience for all the kids," said York
delegation head Bill Walter. "We look
forward to coming to many more
games." fl

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