CONSUMER
ALERT!

Both utility companies, Michcon and Consumers
Power have announced large gas price increases
with natural gas prices possibly doubling this spring.
S & M Heating is very concerned as well as you are,
we have high efficiency furnaces and products to
help with rising prices. Please call one of our energy
experts to see how we can assist you. • 24-hour

Service • Free Estimates

HEATING SALES COMPANY

23262 Telegraph Rd. • Southfield, Ml 48034

(248) 352-4656

www.SMHEATING.com

Min

'TI I
I
ocks • Alignment
aintenance

r FLUSH &

rBR ikKES I
startin g at

FILL

-11 EXHAUST SYSTEM,

starting at

$59.95 '049.95 $79.95

Includes Antifreeze

L

L

Most American Cars

—I L

-J

OPEN MONDAY - SATURDAY

32661 NORTHWESTERN HWY. FARMINGTON HILLS • 851-3883

* * * * * STAIRWAY LIFTS* * * * *

THE CAREFREE WAY TO
CLIMB STAIRS

When you're disabled, or just not able to move around
as freely as you once could, stairs can be a real prob-
lem. But there is a simple answer. The powered stairway
lift. Easily installed to fit curved or straight stairs. They
give you back the ability to move around your own
home. Folds back-gets in nobody's way.
CALL OR STOP BY FOR A FREE DEMONSTRATION

2001

80

ACTON RENTAL & SALES

LARRY ARONOFF

I love my
Stairway Litt!

vir

It takes me up
and down the
stairs with the
push of a but-
ton. Call for
details!

(313) 891-6500 (248) 540-5550

didn't like it."
Jodie also tried other sports, includ-
ing softball and swimming. Lauren
says Jodie "still has the record for but-
terfly at our old swim club, when she
was 10 years old. Anything she did she
was really good at, but gymnastics just
really stuck. She made her friends in
gymnastics and she went all the way
through with them."
At 14, Jodie moved — along with
her coach, Mel Foster — to the
Oakland Gymnastics Club, where she
remained until joining the U-M team.
Along the way, Rosenberg captured
state and national championships in
vault and floor exercises in Level 10
competitions, one step below the
Olympic-class Elite level.
She also enjoyed success in three
JCC Maccabi Games appearances. In
St. Louis in 1993, at age 12,
Rosenberg won the floor and vault
competitions, took silver on bars,
bronze on beam and took the all-
around silver medal.
In Cleveland the following year,
Rosenberg won the all-around gold.
She also took first in vault and floor,
second on bars and third on the bal-
ance beam.
At the 1995 Houston Games,
Rosenberg earned gold in all four
events and the all-around champi-
onship.
Although her high school, West
Bloomfield, didn't have a gymnastics
team, Rosenberg's continued success
with the Oakland Gymnastics Club
earned her the Michigan Jewish Sports
Hall of Fame's high school athlete of
the year award in 1998.
Meanwhile, she also succeeded in
the classroom. Rosenberg was a mem-
ber of the National Honor Society and
graduated summa cum laude from
West Bloomfield.
Rosenberg says her gymnastics suc-
cess was well worth the time commit-
ment. "I definitely would look back
and say it was all worth it," she says.
"I still love it now. And I did manage
to fit some other stuff and a few other
sports in there when I was younger ...
We didn't practice on Saturdays when
I was in high school, so I had a little
bit of time for a social life."
Of course, everything is relative.
Rosenberg says her schedule was a vir-
tual cakewalk compared to Olympic
hopefuls she's known. Those competi-
tors have "a whole different lifestyle,"
she says.
"The way they train is a lot differ-
ent. I think that I'm a lot happier,
looking back, being able to have
friends and have a social life in high

school and stuff like that, in compari-
son to girls who do go to the
Olympics and train 6-8 hours a day."
As she progressed, Rosenberg set a
goal to compete in collegiate gymnas-
tics. She had gymnastics scholarship
offers from severalschools, including
Michigan State, but had her eye on
Michigan. Although U-M didn't offer
her a scholarship, the gymnastics
coaches told her she'd be welcomed to
the squad.
Rosenberg joined a powerhouse
team. She couldn't crack the lineup as
a freshman and saw no competition.
"It was really difficult not competing
my freshman year," Rosenberg says.
"But I learned a lot from watching."
She became an active team member
last year, competing in the floor exer-
cise and helping U-M capture the Big
10 title and finish sixth in the NCAA
tournament.
Rosenberg's college debut, at the
University of Georgia's Super Six
Challenge, "was really exciting,"
Rosenberg says. She had a steady sea-
son, scoring from 9.775 to a season-
best 9.875 (on a 10-point scale) in
floor exercise in several meets. She
scored 9.850 in the Big 10 meet, and
9.825 in both U-M's NCAA Region 5
victory and the NCAA finals.
"Our Big 10 title was a great mem-
ory. It was just so much fun to be able
to stand on the top of the podium and
sing Hail to the Victors. That was really
memorable."
Prior to this season, she finished
fourth in the U.S. Maccabiah tryouts,
making her the first alternate for this
summer's games in Israel.
She began this season with similar
scores and recently matched her career
best in a victory over ninth-ranked
Minnesota and 21st-ranked Iowa.
Prior to the season, Rosenberg, a
junior, was "a little bit" surprised to be
named one of three team captains.
The other two are seniors.
"I try to be a really big motivator,
keep everybody excited at practice and
keep everybody doing well. But I also
try to lead by example. I think I'm a
pretty hard worker and I'm pretty pos-
itive."
She continues to compete in floor
exercise but also trains for the other
three events — balance beam, vault and
parallel bars — in hopes of doing more.
She's also achieving classroom suc-
cess. She was an academic All-Big 10
and Scholastic All-American last year.
She studies kinesiology, the science of
body movement, and may become a
physician's assistant after finishing
school. ❑