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teams this season.
“If I come back and bowl
for LTU, I don’t care at what
level it is,” Resnick said.
Wemyss calls Resnick “a
learner.”
Resnick said she learned a
lot at her only practice.
“I used to throw a straight
ball. Coach Wemyss taught
me how to hook the ball in
just that one practice,” she
said.
Wemyss said Resnick has
potential.
“I know Hannah is an ath-
lete. She’s a volleyball player.
I can work with her,” he said.
“Maybe she won’t become
a 200-average bowler, but
if I can get her averaging in
the 160s and 170s, she can
be a solid member of our
program. It all depends upon
her skill set.”
Resnick plays volleyball for
LTU. The defensive specialist
and libero saw action this
fall during the Blue Devils’
abbreviated season.
Looking back on her deci-
sion not to bowl for LTU this
season, Resnick said she’s
confident she did the right
thing.
The 18-year-old is living
at home in Farmington Hills
while attending Southfield-
based LTU. She said she was
concerned about bringing
COVID-19 into her home.
“I have some mixed feel-
ings about not bowling, of
course, but I feel I made a
smart decision because I’ve
kept my family safe,” she
said. “I can still bowl next
year.”
Resnick also is keeping her
family safe by doing all her
current classes online. She
had some in-person classes
earlier this school year.
“Online learning is hard,”
she said.
Resnick wants to be an
architect. That’s the major
reason why she decided to
attend LTU and that’s what
she’s studying there.
Architecture is a five-year
academic program at LTU,
so she could end up bowling
there for four years if she
wants.
Resnick was a captain of
the volleyball and bowling
teams in her senior year at
FJA and she was the school’s
2019-20 Female Athlete of
the Year.
She was named the FJA
volleyball team’s most
improved player as a soph-
omore and she received the
coach’s award as a junior.
West Bloomfield’s soft-
ball and practice fields also
were renovated as part of
a $1.8 million project.
“We’ve had four-man
workouts on our turf, but
the baseball season won’t
feel real until we have our
tryouts, practice and open-
ing day game,” Birnberg
said.
“I’m feeling confident
that we will have a sea-
son. We play outdoors,
of course, people are
being vaccinated, and the
[COVID-19 infection and
hospitalization] numbers
are going in the right
direction.”
Birnberg, 25, is a former
West Bloomfield base-
ball player who was the
Lakers’ starting shortstop
for four years and the
team captain as a junior
and senior.
West Bloomfield won
a district championship
when he was a senior,
stunning Birmingham
Brother Rice, and
advanced to the regional
finals.
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