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Still In Sports

Ex-Berkley AD's new job
keeps him in old haunts.

Steve Stein

Special to the Jewish News

B

ob Gershman has landed
on his feet after his 22-year
career as Berkley High School
athletic director came to an abrupt end.
Gershman is the high school and
parks and recreation department
salesman in the Detroit area for South
Dakota-based Daktronics, which sells
and services scoreboards, electronic
displays and large-screen video sys-
tems. Daktronics has an office in Novi.
"I love my new job," Gershman said.
"I get to see many of my athletic-direc-
tor friends and make new relation-
ships. I've already talked to the athletic
directors at all 28 Oakland Activities
Association schools."
Gershman, 56, served as president
of the OAA and the Oakland County
Athletic Directors Association during
his tenure at Berkley. The Oak Park
resident also won
the Michigan High
School Athletic
Association's Allen
W. Bush Award in
2001. The award
recognizes men and
women for their
longtime service to
Gershman
high school sports.
Budget cuts in
the Berkley School District reduced
Gershman to part-time status for
the 2005-06 school year. Then he
was replaced as athletic director by
cross country and track coach Paul
Yowchuang. Gershman agreed to train
Yowchuang until mid-September, but he
left the district July 26 to take his new
job. He started with Daktronics Aug. 7.
Gershman spent 34 years at Berkley
High. For the -first 12 years, he was an
assistant boys basketball coach and
physical education teacher.
One of Gershman's former coaches
praised his work as athletic director.
"Bob was very supportive. If I needed
something, I'd call him and he'd take
care of it',' said Steve Weingarden,
who coached the Berkley boys tennis
team the past seven years.
Weingarden resigned to spend more
time with his family, which includes
two young children.

Good As Gold
Barnet Gold won a state champion-
ship when he was a freshman tennis
player at Detroit Country Day School
in Beverly Hills. He combined with
Brandon Holloway to capture the No. 1
doubles title at the 2004 Division 3 state
tournament.
It was a short and successful career
for Gold. Because baseball is his
first love when it comes to sports, he
switched to the diamond
when he was a sopho-
more. Boys tennis and
baseball are played in
the spring, and there
isn't enough time to par-
ticipate in both sports.
Gold has proven to
be a winner with a bat
and glove as well as a
Gold
racquet. Last spring, in
his junior season, the
southpaw batted .516, scored 24 runs,
drove in 20 and played nearly flawless
defense in the outfield for the 25-3
Yellowjackets. The 18-year-old Detroiter
plans to play baseball for Country Day
again next spring.
Gold played tennis for the
Metropolitan Detroit Maccabi Club in
the 2005 Maccabi Games in St. Paul,
Minn., and won a bronze medal in ages
15-16 singles.

Table Tops
Lloyd Strausz is headed back to the
National Senior Games. He'll take aim
at his second consecutive gold medal in
table tennis next summer in Louisville,
Ky.
The West Bloomfield resident won
the gold in the ages 85-89 singles
division at the 2005 Senior Games in
Pittsburgh, his first national tourna-
ment. He'll be in the same age group in
Louisville.
Strausz, 89, qualified for the 2007
Senior Games by finishing in first place
at the Michigan Senior Olympics this
summer. It was his third state champi-
onship.
A competitive table tennis player for
76 years, Strausz also was an avid ice
skater and roller skater until he was
75. _

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