sports Whether you are looking for a complete kitchen, wall system, home office or any custom cabinetry let us show you your In The Swim I Steve Stein Contributing Writer W ater was friend and foe for the Detroit swim- ming team at the JCC Maccabi Games & ArtsFest. Detroit's 18 swimmers won 30 individual medals (six gold, 15 Joel Elconin and Vered Sivan silver and nine bronze) and more than 60 medals in relays during four days of competition in August in boys), Blake Siegel (15-16 boys), Adam the West Bloomfield High School pool. Siegel (13-14 boys), Michael Umansky But several Detroit swimmers had (13-14 boys), David Grand (13-14 boys), more than medals on their minds. They Aaron Zelmanov (15-16 boys), Brody live in Berkley and Huntington Woods Mayoras (13-14 boys), Adin Kleinfeldt neighborhoods that were devastated by (13-14 boys), Joey Fishkind (13-14 flooding the previous week. boys), Ethan Lis (15-16 boys) and Vered Nancy Kleinfeldt, mother of swimmer Sivan (15-16 girls). Adin Kleinfeldt, said the basement in Zelmanov won a Midot award for the family's home in Huntington Woods sportsmanship for giving up his relay was ruined by 3 feet of water. spot to a swimmer who missed an ear- Plans to house three New Jersey base- lier event because of an injury. ball players weren't washed away even Sivan is from Israel, but she swam for though the out-of-town boys were going Detroit and won silver medals in the 50 to sleep in the basement. The family came and 100 breast. up with different sleeping arrangements. Besides winning all those medals, Another challenge was no air condi- Detroit swimmers were cheerleaders tioning in the home. for swimmers from the other del- "We used fans" Nancy Kleinfeldt egations: Metro West (New Jersey), said. "Through it all, everybody did Toronto, Philadelphia, Orange County everything as planned and enjoyed the (California), Virginia Beach (Virginia), week. We weren't going to let the flood 92nd Street Y (New York) and stop us" Venezuela. Adin, 12, is Nate and Nancy "We had a great group of kids," said Kleinfeldt's oldest child. Caleb, 10, and Detroit swimming coach Joel Elconin. Grace, 7, also helped make the family's "Everyone had fun and they were very guests from New Jersey as comfortable well behaved" as possible. Elconin said he learned at a Maccabi Each Detroit swimmer won at least Games information meeting late last two medals. Here are the age-group year that Detroit didn't have a swim- leaders in individual medals: ming coach. 13-14 girls — Shoshana Bitker, two "I was going to volunteer to do some- thing because my daughters had a won- bronze (50 and 100 breast). derful time participating in the Maccabi 13-14 boys — Max Arlow, four gold (50 and 100 free, 50 and 100 breast). He Games" he said. "When I found out we was one of three swimmers who went needed a swimming coach, I took the undefeated in individual events. job and started recruiting and setting up 15-16 girls — Taylor Golden-Wise, practices" two gold (200 IM and 50 breast) and six This wasn't the first time Elconin was silver (50 and 100 free, 50 and 100 fly a Maccabi Games coach. and 50 and 100 back). He coached Detroit's swimmers 15-16 boys — Eli Falk, three silver in 2006 in Houston and 2009 in (50 and 100 back and 100 breast) and Westchester County (New York) and five bronze (50 and 100 free, 50 and 100 Detroit's softball team in 2008. fly and 50 breast). Charlie Vincent, four His daughters Dayna Elconin, 22, silver (50, 100, 200 and 500 free). swam and played softball for Detroit, Falk, 16, is a junior at Berkley High and Emily Elconin, 19, was a swimmer. 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