Page 8-Wednesday, November , 1978-The Michigan Daily
HEALTHY TEAM ATTITUDE RESTORED
Big Ten
Standings
Conference All
W L T W L T
Purdue......4 0 0 6 1 0
MICHIGAN .. 3 1 0 6 1 0
Ohio State .... 3 1 0 4 2 1
Michigan St... 3 1 0 4 3 0
Wisconsin .... 2 2 1 4 2 1
Indiana ......22 0 3 4 0
Minnesota .... 2 2 0 3 4 0
Illinois........0 3 2 1 5 2
Iowa .........1 3 0 1 6 0
Northwestern 0 5 1 0 7 1
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By DIANE SILVER
While in most sports the team members must work
together to achieve victory, cross country is one of
the few team sports that relies on the individual effort
of each runner for success. But Michigan's cross
country team combines individual excellence with a
team effort to make the most out of its top seven run-
ners.
The harriers don't have one individual superstar.
The only problem that creates, according to coach
Ron Warhurst, is that the team doesn't get as much
credit or recognition. But one standout on a team
doesn't necessarily pave the way to a winning season.
"We've got seven guys that are right there. Most of
the top five usually place right on top," said Dan
Heikkinen. The super seven harriers are Gerry
Donakowski, Steve Elliott, Dave Lewis, Gary Paren-
teau, Doug Sweazey, Bill Weidenbach and Heikkinen.
"There's no one guy that's taken over. I think it's
made us a stronger team," said Elliott. "Whenever
there's a team unity it makes the year go by that
much better."
Instead of the entire team's hopes riding on the per-
formance of one superstar, Warhurst can rely on the
depth of his squad. This way if someone is having a
bad day there are still others to back him up.
"It's not a common thing to find a team like this,"
said Elliott. "It's a complete turnaround from last
year."
"There was no one close to Bill (Donakowski) last
year. He was on another level from the other guys, so
it broke them all up," said Elliott.
"Last year Billy was so far out it was difficult for
the team to work together," said Warhurst. "This
year they're all staying up there. They're always
grouped together in training.
"They're a lot friendlier on the track and off," said
Warhurst. "This helps create the best atmosphere. It
also provides for good group therapy."
"At workouts they yell at each other to keep going.
If one guy lays back they'll go back and run with him
and push him to go faster," said Warhurst.
A runner has to be prepared mentally as well as
physically to put out a top rate performance. The at-
titude surrounding this year's harriers is most con-
ducive to achieving the best possible performance for
each individual.
"I've seen better performances out of the guys
this year than they've ever done before," said Elliott,
a three-year veteran.
Although competition usually helps push an athlete
to his limit, an overly competitive group can end up
being cut-throat to the point of interfering with
progress.
"No one's really bickering and there's not any
backstabbing like last year," said Heikkinen.
"You're not really worried about competing against
everyone else, so you can work on improving your
own performance."
In the harriers' case a non-pressure situation may
be the key to winning the Big Ten Championships in
Bloomington this Saturday. Last year the Wolverines
were favored to win, but finished fourth to Wisconsin,
Ohio State and Illinois.
"It will be easier this year, because we're the un-
derdogs for a change," said Warhurst. "There's no
pressure about being favored to win. We've got
nothing to lose.
In the Big Ten Championships the top five runners
on each team count toward the final score. As a
result, having five, six or seven strong runners can
really pay off.
"You can go one, two, three and four and still end
up losing," said Warhurst. "You're only as strong as
your fifth man.
"In a close situation the sixth or seventh man can
be important, 'too," said Warhurst. "They act as
displacers, forcing the other teams' fifth men to be
placed lower."
Although Wisconsin is favored to win the conferen-
ce again, Warhurst believes they can be beaten if
they make any mistakes. "Their only weakness is
their fifth man. We're going to have to'have six or
seven super performances to win. We have to be right
there to take advantage of any mistakes."
MITKOVMOTIVA TED:
Blue booter chases after life long goal
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Stefan Mitkov once had a dream.
Like most of his young Slavic friends,
Mitkov wanted to compete in the Olym-
pics on his native country's national
soccer team.I
Born and raised in Bulgaria, an Iron
Curtain country under Communist con-
trol, Mitkov made his way up the ladder
of age group soccer teams with hun-
dreds of other youngsters.
"SOCCER IS like a religion in
Bulgaria," Mitkov pointed out.
"Everyone plays it."
Mitkov had hopes for a shot at a spot
on Bulgaria's national team. Instead,
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he was inducted into the army, thus en-
ding his chances for the team. While
there was an Army soccer team,
Mitkov did not play much and was glad
to end the frustration two years later
when he left the military.
MITKOV, now a 30-year-old junior at
Michigan and a member of the U-M
Undergraduate Soccer Club, has
another dream. The short but solid
Bulgarian envisions a varsity soccer
team playing in front of a capacity
crowd at Michigan Stadium. And who is
the head coach stalking the sidelines?
None other than Mitkov himself.
Sounds impossible, you say? Maybe
so, but that won't stop a man as
dedicated to his sport as Mitkov. He has
fought adversity before and he'll fight it
again.
As a young man just a few months out
of the Army in 1969, Mitkov decided it
was time to break away from the com-
munist grip the Russians held on his
country. After acquiring a visa to
Yugoslavia, the bearded foreigner
jumped trains and caught a ride to the
Yugoslavian-Italian border.
FOLLOWING eight months of
floating from one Italian refugee camp
to another, the 21-year-old "man
without a country" was granted a tem-
porary visa to the United States.
Life continued to look down on the
new immigrant and Mitkov became
more and more depressed. It was while
working as a janitor in Chicago in 1971
that the determined, young man finally
got a break.
A call from a friend in Ypsilanti
brought Mitkov to this area. He soon
discovered neighboring Ann Arbor, and
decided to make his permanent home
here.
HIS DECISION to enter Michigan
three years ago was based on a very
important belief. As he puts it, "I came
here so I could have a choice of how I
wanted to make my living."
Mitkov continues to believe he has the
ability to play soccer on the
professional level despite failing to
iake the NASL team, the Detroit Ex-
press, in a tryout last year.
"The tryout was a farce," explained
the physical education major. "It was a
promotion-type thing.".
"I KNOW I'm better than most of the
second and third division players they
(pro teams) get from England," con-
tinued Mitkov. "I just wasn't given the
chance to prove it."'
Currently playing at the "libero"
position (a rover between the defense,-
halfbacks and forwards) on the un-
dergrad club, Mitkov enjoys playing on
the team and is well-liked by his team-
mates.
"Stefan is the kind of guy who was .a
settling influence on players who nor-
mally don't settle down," noted club
coach Steve Olsen. "He can stop the
ball in the nmiddle of a frenzy (running
game), give the team time to regroup
and then send out a perfect leading
pass.
Mitkov and the rest of the undergrad
soccer club take their 8-4-1 record into
tonight's intrastate contest against
Michigan State. According to Olsen, the
squad is fired up to avenge last year's 4-
3 defeat in overtime. Game time is 8:00
at Ferry Field.
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Leach honored
CHICAGO (AP) - Rick Leach,
Michigan's senior quarterback, has
been named the Big Ten Player of the
Week on offense by The Associated
Press.
Thus far, Leach has set the Big Ten
record in touchdown passes with 37, and
a Michigan completion record with a
career total of 209, nine more than Don
Moorhead's previous record.
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