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ill Bloomberg began his
soccer career playing at a
high level.
He was on Waza FC and Vardar
Soccer Club of Michigan travel teams
for a combined six years.
Club soccer ended for Bloomberg
when he entered high school at Frankel
Jewish Academy. He doesn’t regret
stepping away.
“It was a good decision,” he said.
“I wanted to experience high school
sports. When you’re playing club soc-
cer, they don’t like you playing sports
in high school because you might get
hurt. I also wanted to get acclimated to
high school.”
Now a junior at FJA, Bloomberg
just finished his third season with the
Jaguars boys soccer team.
The center midfielder and sometime
striker was a team captain this year
along with seniors Eric Lipsky and Max
Rybak. He was named the team’s most
valuable player, and he made the All-
Catholic League Team.
Bloomberg scored eight goals, the
most on the FJA team.
“I enjoy playing soccer with my
friends at Frankel,” the Farmington
Hills resident said. “And I think I’ve
become a different player. A better
player.”
How so?
“When I was playing travel soccer,
it was all about skill, beating someone
one-on-one,” he said. “Now, I need to
work with my teammates more.
“I have to assert myself sometimes
during a game, but I do it because I
want us to win. I do it for my team.”
Bloomberg has switched sports this
winter and is playing for the FJA boys
basketball team. This is the second sea-
son on the hoops team for the 5-foot-9
shooting guard.
“Soccer is my No. 1 sport, but I
enjoy playing basketball,” he said. “We
have a good team. We want to put up a
(championship) banner this season.”
The FJA boys basketball team
improved its record to 5-1 with a 69-31
win Dec. 13 over Chesterfield Austin
Catholic. The victory gave the Jaguars a
3-1 mark in Catholic League play.
Bloomberg said he’d like to attend
Ohio State University or Michigan State
University and study sports manage-
ment.
Pierre Lamarre is the FJA boys soc-
cer team coach. He had high praise for
not just Bloomberg, but also his team’s
other two captains, both defenders.
Lipsky was named Catholic League
all-league and Rybak made Catholic
League all-academic.
“Eric (Lipsky) has great leadership
skills,” Lamarre said, “and he’s always
represented his team, school and him-
self impeccably.”
Lamarre said he was impressed by
Rybak’s speed, determination, compet-
itive nature and dedication as a player.
Rybak also excels in the classroom, of
course.
“We’re going to miss Eric and Max,”
Lamarre said.
TENNIS STATE CHAMPS
Max Levitsky and Nolan Werner from
Birmingham Seaholm High School
each won boys tennis state champion-
ships at the Division 2 tournament in
Holland.
They played doubles and needed to
beat higher seeded teams to win gold.
Levitsky, a senior, and his partner,
junior Cameron Lee, were the second
seed at No. 3 doubles. They defeated
the top-seeded team from Okemos in
the state title match.
Werner, a sophomore, and his
partner, junior Fred Kassab, were the
fourth-seeded team at No. 4 doubles.
They beat the top-seeded duo from
Okemos in the semifinals and the
third-seeded team from Birmingham
Groves in the state championship
match. ■
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