SPORTS

Seasons Turn

Judge's decision puts Ann Arbor
teen, other athletes in a dilemma.

Steve Stein
Special to the Jewish News

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father, lent his legal expertise to the
tennis community.
Friedman told the AP that playing
tennis in the fall is more beneficial
than spring for girls because they can
play outside all summer to get ready
for the season and the fall weather is
usually better. "The irony is switch-
ing tennis seasons increases gender
disparity instead of decreasing it,"
Friedman said.

ebecca Friedman will have
a difficult decision to make
next spring: Should she play
tennis or softball for Ann Arbor Huron
High School?
Friedman is facing that dilemma
because the Michigan High School
Athletic Association has switched the
boys and girls tenths seasons. The
Watch Her
changes are part of a court-ordered
Bloomfield Hills Andover sophomore
compliance plan the MHSAA was
guard-forward Claire Silverstein is
forced to implement after it lost a
listed
among the "frosh and sophs to
nine-year legal battle that claimed the
watch"
by the Jewish Sports Review
MHSAA discriminated against female
in
its
2006-07
Girls High School All-
athletes in its scheduling of seasons.
America
Basketball
Team feature.
After playing tennis in the fall and
Silverstein,
a
5-foot-5
guard-
softball in the spring last school year
forward,
helped
Andover
win the
as a freshman, Friedman will have to
Oakland
Activities
give up one of the sports
Association Division IV
next spring.
championship last season.
Softball is the under-
She often was assigned to
dog. Friedman and ten-
guard the opposing team's
nis teammate Paula
top offensive threat and
made
it
to
the
Silverman
she led the Barons with a
Division 1 state quarterfi-
69 percent success rate at
nals at No. 2 doubles last
the
free throw line.
fall, helping Huron win
Andover
finished 15-
the state championship.
6
overall,
9-1
in OAA
Silverman will be a senior
Division
IV,
and
it allowed
next school year.
Paula Sil verman,
29
points
per
game.
just
"The tennis seasons
Rebecca Friedman
Off
the
court,
Silverstein
were fine the way they
owns a 4.0 grade point average.
were," Friedman told the Associated
Press. "I really liked being on the Huron
Off To Argentina?
tennis and softball teams. I'm disap-
Applications are being accepted for the
pointed that I have to drop one sport."
U.S. junior boys basketball team that
The Michigan High School Tennis
will compete at the 11th Pan American
Coaches' Association and several ten-
Maccabi Games Dec. 26 through Jan. 2
nis parents went to court earlier this
in Buenos Aires.
month, asking U.S. District Judge
Prospective players must have been
Richard Enslen in Kalamazoo to
switch the tennis seasons back to girls born in 1991 or 1992. The team will
be selected from tapes and coaches'
in the fall and boys in the spring.
recommendations unless a tryout is
Parents and coaches representing
needed.
Upper Peninsula high school soccer
Players must make a two-week com-
teams joined their tennis colleagues,
asking Enslen to return boys to the fall mitment, which includes a training
camp in Philadelphia or New York City.
and girls to the spring
Applications are available at
Enslen denied both requests, writ-
www.maccabiusa.com or contact
ing that "tinkering" with his compli-
Coach Brian Schiff, (610) 836-2572 or
ance plan "will open a floodgate to
bschiff@comcastsportsnet.com .
those who are dissatisfied with a spe-
cific scheduled season:'
Richard Friedman, a University of Please send sports news to
sports@thejewishnews.com .
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