Maccabi Results
Compiled by Harry Kirsbaum
Editor's note: Results from last month's JCC Maccabi Youth Games at several
sites around the United States were furnished by the volunteer coaches.
BOSTON
Swimming Detroit's team won 36
individual medals and 10 relay medals.
Girls age 13-14: gold medal: Hannah
Farkas, 200-yard mixed freestyle relay.
Silver medals: Hannah Farkas, Hannah
Posen, 200 mixed medley relay. Bronze
medals: Hannah Posen, 200 mixed
freestyle and medley relays.
Girls age 15-16: Gold: Haley
Mitchell, 100, 200 and 500 free, 50,
100 and 200 back, 200 fly. Silver:
Haley Mitchell, 100, 200 and 400 free
relays; Abbey Schrier, Michelle
Schwartz and Leah Sommerville, 200
and 400 free relays. Bronze: 200 yd.
medley relay: Haley Mitchell, Abbey
Schrier, Michelle Schwartz, Leah
Sommerville.
Boys age 13-14: Gold: Michael
Spickler, 50 free, fly and back, 200 and
400 free relays and 400 medley relay.
Silver: Dan Devore, 200 and 400 med-
ley relays; Noah Eubanks, Brian
Kostukovsky and Max Weissman, 200
and 400 medley relays and 200 free
relay; Michael Spickler, 200 medley
relay; Bradley and Jeffrey Lankowsky,
mixed relay. Bronze: Dan Devore,
Noah Eubanks, Brian Kostukovsky and
Max Weissman, 400 free relay.
Boys age 15-16: Gold: Michael
Spicider, 400 free and medley relays
and 200 free relay; Jason Bank, 400
free and medley relays, 200 and 400
IM; Zack Devore: 400 IM, 400 free
and medley relays, 200 free relay;
Gabe Schubiner, 400 free and medley
relays, 200 free relay, 200 back. Silver:
Jason Bank,200 and 500 frees, 200
medley relay, 400 IM; Michael
Birnkrandt, 200 medley relay; Zack
Devore, 50 and 100 fly, 100 and 200
free, 200 IM, 200 medley relay; Gabe
Schubiner, 200 medley relay, 50 and
100 back. Bronze: Zack Devore, 200
fly; Gabe Schubiner, 50 free, 100 fly.
Swimmers Michael Spickler, Jason Bank, Gabe Schubiner, Ha Mitchell an
and
Michael Birnkrandt were part of Detroit.'s contingent in Boston.
Dance Gold: Hip Hop Small
Group, Eden Faye, Dana Hertz, Cara
Kleiman, Mindy Raminick, Emily
Sklar; Jazz Small Group, Eden Faye,
Dana Hertz, Cara Kleiman, Mindy
Raminick, Emily Sklar; Ballet Solo 15-
16, Dana Hertz; Tap Solo, 13-14,
Emily Sklar. Silver: Tap Solo, 13-14,
Eden Faye.
Boys Basketball Detroit's 16-and-
under team played admirably against a
very tough field. The highlight was an
exciting victory over host Boston, in
which the team displayed great offen-
sive firepower, scoring 78 points. For
the week, the team's leading scorers
were Mitch Weiss and Levi Stewart.
Brad Garden contributed energetic play
and rebounding.
Girls Basketball Detroit won its last
game against Pittsburgh.
Girls Soccer Detroit won its last
game against Venezuela.
Girls Volleyball Detroit won the sil-
ver medal.
COLUMBUS
Detroit's 13-14 boys basketball team
won the silver medal. The team went
4-0 in round-robin play. After winning
the first medal-round game handily,
they lost a hard-fought game to Miami
in the finals.
Boys Tennis 13-14 doubles, bronze
medal, Michael Brodsky and Brandon
KaPPY.
Maccabi Windsor
The Windsor, Ont., community partic-
ipates in the JCC Macabi Youth
Games every other year. Last month,
12 athletes from Windsor competed in
Columbus and earned a team record 35
medals.
Richie Kamen won a bronze medal
in golf and Adam Gellman a bronze in
bowling.
In dance, Kate Winbaum, Erica
Jarcaig and Jenna Armeland each won
silver and bronze medals.
In swimming, Michael Rozenbojn
won six gold, three silver and two
bronze; Andrew Swartz and Boris
Barbaric each won a gold and three sil-
vers.
The athletes were allowed to compete
in track and field on the last day of the
competition and Andrew Swartz won a
gold and a bronze medal, Boris Barbaric
and Jenna Armeland each won a gold,
and Erica Jarcaig won a silver medal.
On The Line At 11-541
He's listed as the number two
left guard on the team's preseason
depth chart, behind senior David
Baas — who Kraus calls "my
dam Kraus was one of the nation's most
mentor" — so Kraus should have
heavily recruited high school tight ends. But
an opportunity to play this season
after one season with the University of
and to compete for a starting job
Michigan football team, he's moved to the interior
next season.
of the offensive line, where he's now a backup guard.
Kraus had his choice of Kraus
The New Orleans native says the transition
colleges but accepted
is "going real well. I'm just learning new
Je wish Michigan's scholarship offer because "I just
things every day and trying to get better and
get to the point where I can compete" for
S tars felt really comfortable here, and I thought it
was a good fit for me, academics and foot-
playing time.
ball-wise."
Kraus, a sophomore who did not see game
U-M's other two Jewish players are nonscholar-
action last season, says he has "a long way to go. I've
ship walk-ons. Senior Jeremy Read is a linebacker
improved a lot, but there's so much more that I can
who hasn't seen game action. Getting into a game
get better at."
MIKE ROSENBAUM
Special to the Jewish News
A
Read
Pollock
would be "a dream," he says. He calls football at
Michigan "a great experience, something I'm defi-
nitely never going to forget for the rest of my life."
Read, from San Diego, says the Jewish Wolverines
"have a special bond ... We go to High Holiday
(services) together. So its very cool."
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