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FJA Volleyball Team Serves
Success In The Classroom
STEVE STEIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER
FJA’s Aviva Lupovitch
passes the ball to a
teammate.
FJA won the match 3-0.
Bernstein, a social studies teacher
at FJA, has both coached and taught
Snover and Lupovitch, so he’s doubly
proud of their Academic All-State
accomplishments.
“Stephanie Snover’s GPA is above
a 4.0,” he said. “She’s a model student.
Aviva has had wondrous growth aca-
demically the past 2½ years. She’s done
great since she found her stride.
“Stephanie and Aviva were our team
captains this season. They’re incredible
young women who lead by example.”
Each senior spent four years in the
FJA volleyball program and was a
starter the last three years.
Snover, a setter, was named All-
Catholic this season. Lupovitch, an
outside hitter, was All-League and FJA’s
most valuable player.
FJA junior inside hitter Emily
Feldman and sophomore outside hitter
Mackenzie Morton were the Jaguars’
most improved players, and junior
libero Hannah Resnick received the
coach’s award. ■
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FJA ROSTER
Here’s the roster of the Frankel Jewish Academy volleyball team.
• Seniors: Aviva Lupovitch, Stephanie Snover.
• Juniors: Emily Feldman, Hannah Resnick.
• Sophomores: Hannah Goreman, Alexis Morton, Mackenzie Morton, Adina
Robbins, Arielle Shlafer, Anna Weinbaum.
• Freshmen: Ashley Adelson, Natalie Cherrin, Shayna Foreman, Bella Gotlieb,
Leah Phillips.
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DENNIS YASHINSKY
T
he Frankel Jewish Academy
volleyball team had some nice
accomplishments on the court
this season.
Despite losing several players from
last year’s team, the Jaguars finished
5-9 and “we improved dramatically
from the beginning to the end of the
season,” said Coach Joe Bernstein.
That improvement left Bernstein
optimistic because only two seniors
were among the 15 players on FJA’s
roster.
Perhaps more important this season
were FJA’s off-court achievements.
The team’s annual Pink Out fund-
raiser for breast cancer raised more
than $1,000, the most in the five years
Bernstein has been involved in the
volleyball program, including the last
three as head coach.
For the first time in program his-
tory, FJA earned team Academic
All-State honors from the Michigan
Interscholastic Volleyball Coaches
Association.
A minimum 3.3 GPA is required for
that honor. The Jaguars’ GPA was 3.87.
FJA’s two seniors — Stephanie
Snover and Aviva Lupovitch — earned
Academic All-State as individuals.
Let’s go back to the student-led
breast cancer fundraiser held Oct.
24 in a home match against Pontiac
Academy.
FJA students, faculty and staff and
community members bought more
than 100 T-shirts for the cause and
fans at the match got in free, but could
make a donation.
“The bleachers were packed that
night,” Bernstein said, adding that the
wife of an FJA teacher battling breast
cancer was at that game.
The money raised from Pink Out
went to the Bloomfield Hills-based
Pink Fund.