Taylor Dubin follows through.
ALAN HITSKY
Associate Editor
T
aylor Dubin of West
Bloomfield knows just what
she wants out of her first JCC
Maccabi Youth Games: competition,
new friends and a good time.
The 13-year-old tennis player, who
will be a freshman at West Bloomfield
High School next month, will be part
of the 148 Detroit Jewish teen athletes
who will compete Aug. 7-12 in St.
Paul, Minn., or San Antonio, Texas, or
Aug. 14-19 in Richmond, Va.
Thirteen athletes from Ann Arbor,
plus two from West Bloomfield, will
participate at the fourth Maccabi host
city — Dallas, Texas — from July 31
through Aug. 5.
Dubin is excited about her first
Maccabi Games. She heard about the
annual Jewish teen
Olympics from
friends who com-
peted last year. She has several friends
on the Detroit delegation's tennis
team, plus others who are competing
in other sports.
"I hope the competition is not too
easy — I want to learn from my mis-
takes," Dubin said last week. "But I
hear it's pretty challenging."
Fellow tennis team member Alex
Fishman, 15, of West Bloomfield has
goals similar to Dubin's. He participat-
ed last year in Columbus, Ohio, and is
looking forward to playing in St. Paul.
Fishman made it to the semifinals of
the backdraw (losers' bracket) in sin-
gles last year and also played doubles.
He will be a sophomore at Bloomfield
Hills Andover High School in the fall
and has been playing tennis for five
years at the Sports Club in West
Bloomfield and in U.S. Tennis
Association tournaments.
"Maccabi was a lot of fun" last year,
Fishman said. "I'm looking forward to
meeting new kids" and being with
Maccabi friends from tennis and from
school.
The Games incorporate competi-
tion, social activities and social action
events, and have evolved since the first
teen Games were held in Memphis in
1982 and in Detroit in 1984.
Long-time Maccabi volunteer Dr.
Alan Horowitz of West Bloomfield is
president of the Detroit Maccabi
Club. He pointed out that the Games
have changed from one large competi-
tion every two years at one site to
smaller competitions every year at
multiple sites.
"It makes it easier to manage," he
said. "The kids are going to have just
SPORTS
Detroit area teens
are ready for the
JCC Maccabi
Games to begin.
The Ann Arbor delegation will be competing in Dallas
from July 31 to Aug. 5.
Fifteen athletes will be accompanied by coaches Todd
Fry and Scott Forrester, and delegation head Jean
Christian.
Ann Arbor's age13-14 boys soccer players will be on a
mixed team with players from New Orleans, Nashville,
Boston and Phoenix. The team includes Noah Tobes,
Noah Trobe, Alex Perlman, Will Scheiman, Noah Share,
and West Bloomfield residents Eytan Keidar and Zachery
Bergman.
Sarah Christian will compete in girls 15-16 soccer with
players from Northern Virginia, Nashville, New Orleans
and Columbus.
Michele Freed and Hannah Segaloff will compete in
girls 13-14 basketball with players from Memphis,
Northern Virginia, Miami Beach and Atlantic County.
Ann Arbor's tennis team includes Michelle Silver,
Ethan Cohen and Jeremy Cohen. Bowlers are Dana
Margolis and Justin Moyer.
The Detroit Maccabi Club will host a kickoff meeting
and barbecue for Detroit Maccabi athletes and their fam-
ilies at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, July 31, at Camp Ruth, the day
camp behind the JCC on the Eugene and Marcia
Applebaum Jewish Community Campus in West
Bloomfield.
The meeting will include travel and Games informa-
tion, and distribution of team uniforms.
Maccabi Results
Following the Games, coaches are asked to submit their
competition summaries via e-mail to ahitsky@thejewish-
n ews. co m.
Coaches or parents can submit action photos to the
same address (300 DPI in JPG format) with an identify-
ing caption.