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EUROPEAN FURNITURE • ANTIQUES • FINE ART • JEWELRY ORIENTAL RUGS • BRONZES YOU'RE READING AN AWARD WINNING PAPER! The Detroit Jewish News has been voted Michigan Press Association's 2006 Newspaper of the Year 2006 simon rockower awards 38 January '18 • 2007 Steve Stein Special to The Jewish News onathan Ben-Ze'ev says he loves running because it's relaxing and it gives him a chance to clear his head from the rigors of academics. He also loves run- ning because of the challenge of push- ing himself to exhaustion. Those divergent but addicting rea- sons help explain why Ben-Ze'ev, a Berkley High School senior, could have kicked himself after he dropped out of cross country as an eighth- and ninth- grader. He ran for Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit when he was in sixth and seventh grade, but not in eighth grade. "I thought I was burned out on Ben-Zeiev running, but when I started running again with a friend after school in the spring of my freshman year at Berkley, I realized that running is a big part of my life Ben-Ze'ev said. "I regretted not keeping up with it." Ben-Ze'ev joined the Berkley boys cross country team that fall. He remained with the Bears for three years, earning team MVP honors last season. He barely missed qualifying for the Division 1 state meet when he finished 23rd at the regional in Clarkston. His 16:56.2 clocking was the third-fastest 5K run in Berkley team history. Besides being named MVP, Ben Ze'ev was the team's Bear of the Year as a junior and senior, the only two years he could win the award. The honor goes to the student-athlete with the highest grade point average. Ben-Ze'ev carries a 4.3 GPA on a weighted 4.0 scale. The 17-year-old Huntington Woods teen plans to attend the University of Michigan, then possibly head to medical school and become an orthopedic surgeon. Before he runs off to Ann Arbor, Ben-Ze'ev will spend his third season with the Berkley boys track team this j spring. The 5-foot-10, 142-pounder would like to drop his time in the 3200 meter run to 10:30. "As you can tell from his grade point average, Jonathan is a very motivated young man:' said Paul Yowchuang, Ben-Ze'ev's former cross country and track coach who is now Berkley's ath- letic director. Ben-Ze'ev's parents are Abraham and liana. He has a sister, Lee, 13, an eighth-grade student at Roeper Middle School. Service With A Smile Debra Gross competes with the debate, forensics and Quiz Bowl teams at West Bloomfield High School. She's also a member of the school's Law and Japanese clubs, and she has a 3.7 grade point average. "I don't;' she said with a laugh. Somehow, Gross also finds time to be a solid contributor off the bench for the West Bloomfield volleyball team. The 5-foot-9 junior served the final two points in the Lakers' 29-27 second-game win over Rochester last week. The Lakers went on to a five- game victory. That was an important Oakland Activities Association Division II road win for West Bloomfield, which was 4- 1 in the division just past the halfway point of the dual match schedule. The division tournament will be Feb. 10 at Rochester Hills Stoney Creek. Dual- match records and tournament results will determine the overall champion of the nine-team division. There are only nine players on West Bloomfield coach Jason Gold's ros- ter, the smallest in his eight years at the helm. But he likes the girls' athleti- cism and aggressive hitting. Gold, 38, a 1986 West Bloomfield grad, also coaches volleyball at Our Lady of Refuge School in Orchard Lake and Abbott Middle School in the West Bloomfield district. Gold's seventh- and eighth-grade No. 1 team at Our Lady of Refuge finished second among 105 Catholic Youth Organization squads last fall. Please send sports news to sports@thejewishnews.com.