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I is been an up-and-down season
for Jack Gitler, a 6-foot-2, 260-
pound senior defensive end at
Western Michigan University.
He posted respectable statistics —
24 tackles, including three tackles-
for-loss, one fumble recovery and
one quarterback sack — through the
first five games of the football sea-
son. But the Broncos won only one
of the five. The graduation of All-
American defensive end Jason Babin
left Gitler as the team's top pass-
rusher. "This year, they're keying
more on me," says Gitler, a Berkley
High graduate.
Gitler is in his second full year as a
starter. Last year, he was second
team All-Mid American Conference.
He says he's improved his "under-
standing of the game" in four years
of Division I college play. He's also
taken on a larger leadership role this
year.
"The coach always wants seniors
to be leaders," he says. "I think I've
stepped up. I was never a real vocal
guy on the team. But in the senior .
year, that's something you have to do
more."
Asked about a possible pro foot-
ball career, Gitler responds, "If it
happens or if it doesn't, that's all
going to be on whatever somebody
sees in me. But all that matters to
me now is how the team does. I'm
really not even thinking about that
anymore ... When the off-season
comes, if people are interested in me
and how I play, then there's a time
to think about that."
.He also thinks about being one of
the better Jewish college football
players. "I know that there,s not
many Jews playing Division I foot-
ball," he says. Being one of the few
is "something I quietly take pride
in."
Gitler is on track to graduate with
a degree in elementary education
next spring. He hopes to eventually
become a third-grade teacher. For
now, he says, he'll "play every game
as hard as I can. That's what I did
last year and I know if I keep doing
that, that's when the good things
happen."

Jack Gitler

University of Michigan redshirt
freshman Adam Kraus saw his first
college action as a backup guard in
the Wolverines' opening game this
season. Jeremy Read, a fifth-year
linebacker, made his first-ever
appearance against Iowa, playing on
special teams.
Birmingham Seaholm grad Matt
Adler, a sophomore linebacker at
Oberlin College in Ohio, had one
solo tackle and four assists through
the first three games this year,
including one assisted tackle-for-loss.
Aaron Brand, from Toronto, Ont.,
has signed on for another season
with the Port Huron Beacons of the
United Hockey League. Brand, a
center, netted 30 goals and added 25
assists in 72 regular season games for
Port Huron last year. He added three
goals and four assists in nine playoff
games.
Junior midfielder Adam Bruh,
from Roslyn Heights, N.Y., missed
the first three U-M soccer games due
to injury, but is now healthy and
back in the Wolverines' starting line-
up. He's had one assist in the eight
games he's played.
North Farmington's varsity soccer
team includes seven Jewish players.
Junior Eric Berlin is the starting
center midfielder, senior Dylan
Michlin starts at outside midfielder,
while senior co-captain Brian