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CORRITORE, ROTHWELL PACE BLUE
Male gymnasts swing into season
By PETE LEININGER
The 1977-78 Michigan men's gymnastic team,
young but experienced, is optimistic and should
pose a threat for the Big Ten crown.
Possessing just one senior, Paul McBride, the
team is led by an outstanding group of juniors.
Co-captains Bob Creek and Nigel Rothwell, along
with parallel bars standout John Corritore, all
juniors, lead the Blue squad.
CORRITORE, Big Ten champ on p-bars, was
runner up in the NCAA by less than a tenth of a
point last year. "I feel I can score in the 9.7's,"
commented Corritore. "I have the toughest routine
in the country."
Rothwell, a performer with the Canadian
National team during the summer, placed second in
the Big Ten all-around competition last year.
Creek has placed second and third in the Big Ten
on high bar the past two seasons. "Personally, I'm
really looking forward to this year," says Creek.
"WE HAVE a good team, but it's too early to tell
how well we'll do because the team is so young and
hasn't really started to jell," adds Creek.
Other experienced juniors are Bruce Schuchard,
competing in all-around, Brian Carey and Dorian
Deaver on pommel horse, Carl Badger on horse and
vaulting, and Gordon Higman on rings, p-bars, high
bar, and vaulting.
Several strong sophomores add depth to the Blue
squad. Rich Nisivaco performs all-around with
Fred Rasmussen on high bar, Ron Tickman and
Jim Varilek both on floor exercise and vaulting, and
Dough Zahour, Al Golden, and Scott Weller com-
peting in several events.
MICHIGAN coach Newt Loken is depending on
freshmen to help fill in on pommel horse and rings,
events hardest hit by graduation.
Tom Staley and Darrell Yee, state champs on
rings from Illinois and Michigan, respectively, and
ring and p-bar specialist Larry Beckerman, should
fill the holes left by the departure of talented
ringmen.
Two other state champs, Harold Dardick of River
Forest, Illinois, and John Rieckhoff of Trenton, will
balance out the pommel horse squad.
IN HIS 31st year of coaching at Michigan, Loken
sights the Big Ten title to be a battle between defen-
ding champ Minnesota and runner up Illinois. Both
teams will have the nucleus of their squad return-
ing.
"Our team is working very hard at it," comments
Loken. "We have until March to get ready for the
Big Ten Championship (held in Illinois)."
"We should be stronger with three all-around
men, Rothwell, Schuchard, and Nisivaco, as op-,
posed to two last year," Lolen added.
"They're a determined bunch of men who all
show evidence of self-motivation."
SINCE 1947, Loken's teams have compiled a 215-
39-1 record, and have won 12 Big Ten championships
plus two NCAA titles since 1960. On an individual
basis, Loken's gymnasts have captured 63 Big Ten
championships and 22 NCAA titles.
"If some guys get fired up, we could do it (win the
Big Ten)," states Corritore.
"The freshmen are really peppy," adds Rothwell.
Lending their talents to the coaching staff will be
former Wolverine stars, Bob Darden and Scott Pon-
to.
Darden, three-time Big Ten high bar champ,
placed second in the NCAA in his final year. Ponto
was twice a runner up in the Big Ten on rings.
If the team puts it all together, they have a good
chance of improving on last year's third place finish
in the conference, 1.65 points behind second place
Illinois. But, like Loken says, "only time will tell."
The team travels to Chicago to compete in the
Windy City Invitation on the weekend of Nov. 18-19
and then to the Midwest Open a week later, also in
Chicago. The first home meet will be the Big Ten
Invitational held on Jan. 13-14 in Crisler Arena.
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BIG TEN all-around runner-up Nigel Rothwell executes a back pike during his
floor exercise in last year's action in the Big Ten Invitational. Rothwell will lead
the Michigan attack in 1977-78, and will be ably assisted by other well-seasoned
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