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he Bloomfield Hills High
School boys tennis team won
its third straight Division 1
state championship this fall with six
Jewish players contributing to the
title.
Zev Spiegel won the No. 3 singles
state championship. Brady Winston
placed second at No. 4 singles.
Asher Langwell was a member of
the No. 1 doubles state champion
team. Noah Kaplan made it to the
semifinals at No. 2 doubles. Meyer
Saperstein and his partner won the
state championship at No. 3 doubles.
Davis Langwell made it to the semi-
finals at No. 4 doubles.
Let’s meet these young men:

ZEV SPIEGEL
Year in school: Sophomore
Why do you enjoy playing ten-
nis?
“I love the competitive mindset
and the thrill of the sport.”
What’s something people may
not know about you?
“I’m a super talkative guy off the
court.”
Other extracurricular activities?
DECA business club.

BRADY WINSTON
Year in school: Sophomore

Why do you enjoy playing tennis?
“I love the energy I feel when I’m
on the court, the all-around athlet-
icism needed for the sport, and the
people I’ve met over the years.”
What’s something people may
not know about you?
“I can solve a Rubik’s Cube!”
Other extracurricular activities?
Sophomore class president, stu-
dent ambassador, member of Future
Health Professionals, community
service club, Jewish Student Alliance,
middle school tutoring club, speech
and debate club, and medical careers
club.

ASHER LANGWELL
Year in school: Senior
Why do you enjoy playing ten-
nis?
“I enjoy all sports. I’ve played
many throughout my life. I enjoy
tennis especially because I like being
able to win both as a team and an
individual.”
What’s something people may
not know about you?
“I’m also a golfer. I play on the
Bloomfield Hills boys golf team. I’m
a two-time state champion in tennis
and in golf. I was the runner-up in
the regional and 13th at the state
tournament last spring.”

Meet the six Jewish members of the
three-time state champion Bloomfield
Hills High School boys tennis team.

Net Worth

STEVE STEIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Asher Langwell
(left) and his
brother Davis
Langwell.

SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS

quick hits

BY STEVE STEIN

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Max Sasson’s dream has come true.
The Birmingham native played in
eight NHL games for the
Vancouver Canucks from
Nov. 23 through Dec. 10
after being called up from
the Abbotsford Canucks,
the parent club’s top farm
team.
One of those NHL
games was Dec. 1 at Little
Caesars Arena against
the Detroit Red Wings.
Sasson, a 6-foot-1, 184-
pound forward, got 6:19 of
ice time in 10 shifts in his hometown.
Sasson had an assist in his NHL

debut vs. the Ottawa Senators on Nov.
23 and vs. the Pittsburgh Penguins on
Nov. 27 in his second NHL
game. Those were his only
points in the eight games.
He became the 46th play-
er in Vancouver franchise
history to record at least a
point in his NHL debut.
The former Western
Michigan University hock-
ey star was signed by the
Vancouver Canucks as a
college free agent at the
end of the 2022-23 season.
He had 42 points in 56 games last
year for Abbotsford.

Max Sasson Makes It to the NHL, Skates at
Little Caesars Arena vs. the Red Wings

ABBOTSFORD CANUCKS

Max
Sasson

The Fire Inside, a movie about Flint
boxer Claressa Shields training for the
2012 Summer Olympics, will be released
in theaters Dec. 25.
Orthodox Jewish boxing promoter
Dmitriy Salita of Southfield, a former
professional boxer who had a 35-2-
1 record in the ring in 12 years, is
Shields’ longtime promoter. Salita was
recently named the USBA Promoter of
the Year by the International Boxing Federation.
Shields, one of the top women boxers in the world, is a two-
time Olympic gold medal winner and has won four weight
class championships as a professional.

Orthodox Jewish Boxing Promoter Dmitriy
Salita’s Client Is the Subject of a Movie

Dmitriy Salita and
Claressa Shields.

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