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History was made at the Wimbledon
tennis tournament earlier this month.
Andy Ram became the first Israeli
to win a Grand Slam championship
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when he teamed with Russian Vera
Zvonareva to capture the mixed dou-
bles title July 8 on Wimbledon's historic
Centre Court.
Ram and Zvonareva beat Americans
Bob Bryan and Venus Williams 6-3, 6-2.
Born in Uruguay, the 26-year-old Ram
regularly plays men's doubles with fellow
Israeli Jonathan Erlich. They reached
the Wimbledon semifinals in 2003.

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R

ebecca Nyquist was exhaust-
ed after flying halfway across
the world. Normally eloquent,
she could offer only one-word descrip-
tions of her experiences at the first
Maccabi Australia International Games.
"It was amazing. It was unbelievable.
It was fantastic , ) ' said the 19-year-old
swimmer from Bloomfield Hills, who
won six gold medals and one silver
medal in seven events for Team USA
during the July 2-10 competition in
Sydney.
Most sports, including swimming,
were contested at Olympic venues, a
Maccabi first. Sydney hosted the 2000
Olympics.
Nyquist was reached by phone in
Oakland, Calif., shortly after she flew
13 hours from Sydney to Los Angeles,
then to San Francisco. She'll be staying
with her brother, Gurston, in Oakland
the next month while she serves intern-
ships at an environmental firm and
an environmental radio station in San
Francisco.
The trip to Sydney was Nyquist's first
journey overseas, and she'll never forget
it. Besides winning the medals, she met
scores of other Jewish athletes from
around the world and participated in
several cultural and social activities.
"We went on a harbor boat cruise,
visited the outback, went to the beach,
went shopping, went out to dinner ..."
she said as her voice trailed off.
Among the more emotional memo-
ries Nyquist will treasure are the
Maccabi Games' opening ceremonies at
the Sydney Opera House and a tribute at
the Olympic Village to the 11 Israeli ath-
letes slain at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
More than 700 Jewish athletes ages
18 and older from 14 countries com-
peted in Sydney. They stayed at 4.5-star
hotel in Rushcutters Bay.
Nyquist, the 2005 Jewish News
Female High School Athlete of the
Year, is a sophomore backstroke and
butterfly swimmer for the Princeton
University women's team. She won
Maccabi gold medals in the 200 meter
backstroke, 200 butterfly, 400 freestyle,
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and 400 freestyle relay. She also earned
a silver medal in the 100 backstroke.
An All-American swimmer at
Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood
High School, Nyquist won multiple gold
medals in swimming while represent-
ing Detroit at JCC Maccabi Games
when she was 13 and 16. Her parents
are Dr. Douglas Nyquist and Jo Ann
Allen Nyquist.

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HAVE YOU OR A LOVED ONE BEEN
DIAGNOSED WITH CROHN'S DISEASE?

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It's been quite a spring and summer for
University of Maryland women's bas-
ketball star Shay Doran. The 5-foot-9
junior guard has been to the White
House and Europe, and she was named
to the All-Atlantic Coast Conference
Team and All-ACC Academic Team for
the third time.
Last April, Shay became the first
Israeli to play in the NCAA women's
basketball championship game. She
made the most of the historic occasion,
scoring 16 points in Maryland's 78-75
overtime victory over Duke.
That thrilling win earned the
Terrapins a trip to see President Bush.
Next on their agenda was a 9,000-mile,
12-day journey to Austria, the Czech
Republic, France and Hungary. They
played four games and did plenty of
sight-seeing.
Doran averaged 13.4 points and
3.9 assists last season for Maryland.
She also made 82.8 percent of her free
throws and 38.4 percent of her three-
point shots.

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