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Two Cousins Win 
Seven Swimming 
Medals at Maccabi

Cousins Alexandra and Megan 
Zelmanov combined to win 
seven medals in 16U girls 
swimming representing Detroit 
last month at the JCC Maccabi 
Games in Fort Lauderdale, 
Florida.
Each medal was won in a 
relay with swimmers from other 
delegations. Alexandra won two 
golds and two silvers. Megan 
won two silvers and a bronze. 
The girls did not swim together 
on any relay team.
Besides being cousins, both 
girls are 16 years old, live in 
West Bloomfield, and are juniors 
at Bloomfield Hills High School 
and on the girls swim team 
there.
Megan competed in the 
2019 Maccabi Games in Detroit, 
winning three bronze medals in 
swimming relays. The Maccabi 
Games were canceled in 2020 
and 2021 because of the 
COVID-19 pandemic and they 
resumed last year, but with 
many pandemic restrictions in 
place.
“The Maccabi Games in 
Detroit were amazing,” Megan 
said. “I participated this year so 
I could experience the Maccabi 
Games one more time (before 
she aged out). The best part 
of my time in Fort Lauderdale 
was meeting kids from all over 
the world who have the same 
interests as I do. I remember 
meeting kids from Canada, 
Mexico and Ukraine.”

KAREN GORDON

JCC Maccabi Games 
medal winners Megan and 
Alexandra Zelmanov.

quick hits
BY STEVE STEIN 

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